# Building Our House

**Author:** Jonathan Bean
**Grade range:** Grades K–5
**First published:** 2013
**Page count:** 48
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9781466830073`
**ISBN-10:** `1466830077`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/building-our-house
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Perfect for the little builders in your life, this warm-hearted and unique picture book is all about “building a house and turning it into a home” (Publishers Weekly), inspired by award-winning author-illustrator Jonathan Bean’s own childhood. In this can’t-miss book for kids who love tools, trucks, and all things construction-related, readers join a girl and her family as they pack up their old house in town and set out to build a new one in the country. Mom and Dad are going to make the new house themselves, from the ground up, with a helping hand from their lucky kiddos. From empty lot to finished home, every stage of their year-and-a-half-long building project is captured here—page after page brimming with machines, vehicles, and all kinds of house-making activities! As he imagines it 

## Where this book is assigned

### Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 2013 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 2013 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 2013 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 2013 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 2013 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 2013 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)

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