![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ensuing spreads detail how they live in a trailer on their new property while slowly building the house: setting the corners of the foundation digging out the basement gathering rocks and using them in the foundation measuring, marking and cutting timber for the frame and so on. The oversized, portrait format echoes the height of the house the family builds, but front endpapers first show a vast, rural landscape in the foreground of which lies the “weedy field Dad and Mom bought from a farmer.” Frontmatter depicts them packing and leaving the city. Told from the perspective of Bean’s older sister, the story revels in the practical work of house-building, demystifying the stages of construction in a matter-of-fact, engaging tone. Bean sets aside the urban setting of his Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner, At Night (2007), in this homage to his back-to-the-land parents, who built his childhood home in the 1970s. ![]()
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