![]() ![]() Told in the voice of Jonathan Bean's older sister (and from her point of view) and accompanied by minutely detailed, aesthetically delightful illustrations presenting and depicting every part of the house building process (although it must be mentioned that according to the author's note, the construction of the house actually took five years to complete and not as is related in the narrative proper one and a half years), Building Our House is a perfect picture book for children who enjoy construction and building types of tales. Now I do not often give five star rankings, but Jonathan Bean's Building Our House has been a pure and utter reading and visual delight, a sweet (and indeed also true) story of how the author's parents bought a plot of land and then with their own hands (like in the so-called good old days) built their family home from bottom to top (mostly on their own, with both the father and the mother one hundred percent engaged in the building process, and with the father also still working at his nine to five job, but also and interestingly, just like in the days of yore, having friends and family occasionally help, such as for example to set up, to raise the house's wooden frame and just like how in the past, friends and neighbours would not only help each other out but also throw a social get-together, throw a huge party at the same time). ![]()
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