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The picture book debut of Carson Ellis, acclaimed illustrator of the Wildwood series and Lemony Snicket's The Composer is Dead, this is a gorgeous, imaginative celebration of the many possibilities of home. The focus of “Home” is more on the illustrations than actual prose but the message is clear: people and animals live in diverse dwellings but one is not better than the next. Ellis reflects on all the possibilities of home through her lovely illustrations and fantastical imaginings of all that a home could be. I found that while I appreciated the individual homes beings portrayed, somehow their juxtaposition just didn't work for me. However, don’t expect to be blown away and there are far better similar children’s books on the market.

Influential artist Carson Ellis makes her solo picture-book debut with a beautifully imaginative tribute to the many possibilities of home. At some point, Ellis does switch to fanciful imagery and homes that are under the sea, in tree hollows. I imagine kids might want to know, to name but a few things: What is this Atlantis that looks so intriguing?We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed.

For instance, there is a young dark skinned girl sitting in an apartment building that is covered in graffiti, the illustration for "Some homes are wigwams" have Indigenous people with bows and arrows, followed by a palace and an underground lair in which Arab, possible Muslim, characters are smoking as they stack gold coins and there is a woman reclining on a pile of gold --as if she is a possession. Discussion: I could spend hours looking at the pictures in this book, ferreting out half-hidden delightful details. As a debut, I found Ellis' concept of what home means to different people a powerful and thought-provoking discussion. When I was little, I was fascinated with the different types of houses people had all around the world. I don't know what it was about it (something about the shape of the lines maybe) but I could honestly look at it all day; I want to frame it and put it on my wall.I also did not care for the way some individuals / homes were depicted, and to me seemed to stereotype. She also cleverly shows you how the very same home can look quite different, as with her comparison of a “clean” home versus a “messy” home. One criticism I have seen that strikes me as misguided is the one that claims that the scene set in a Middle-Eastern palace, complete with underground lair containing piles of gold, is an example of some kind of Orientalist exotification. I originally brought this book because of a recommendation by OwlCrate, I'm so glad I did as Home was absolute perfection.

From houses in the country to apartments in the city, from living underwater to living on the road, a diverse range of homes is profiled here: identified in simple statements, and depicted in lovely folk-art illustrations. if my children were younger we would have loved to sit and look at this and decide which one we liked best and who we thought would live in each one. Parents will notice details such as the “I love CM” tag amongst the graffiti drawings and the dove in every illustration. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.I would have treasured this beautiful book with its imaginative survey of houses around the planet and even beyond it! Carson has been awarded silver medals by the Society of Illustrators for her work on Wildwood Imperium and on Dillweed's Revenge by Florence Parry Heide. And it doesn’t just cover the habitats of people: for example, one page shows the home of a raccoon, and one shows the home of a Norse god. I appreciated Ellis' subtle but appealing color palette, and found that her use of stylized figures and objects helped to create a charmingly retro-vintage feeling.

Carson lives on a farm in Oregon with Colin, their two sons, two cats, one llama, three goats, many chickens, and an unfathomable multitude of tree frogs. The illustration style was wonderful, the only issue I have is that some of the scenes were not fully explained by the text, and might encourage children to believe broad, questionable stereotypes at an early age.That said, I wasn't quite as impressed with the narrative, which felt random to me, and not in an appealing way. Influential artist Carson Ellis makes her solo picture-book debut with a whimsical tribute to the many possibilities of home. Home” is an oversized juvenile picture book with very little text targeting very young children mostly in the 4-6 age bracket. Still, this is a worthy first endeavor, and I look forward to seeing what Ellis does in her second picture-book, the recently released Du Iz Tak?