Describes a number of shelters constructed from different types of materials and suitable to varying climates, including tepees, yurts, log cabins, stone houses, and igloos.
Determined to be as strong and powerful as the first Harleigh, who built the rambling Weatherby Hall, twelve-year-old Harleigh Fourth and an equally diminutive new friend try to foil the plans of a distant relative who is seeking the long-lost Weatherby fortune.
Thirty-four poems which personify household objects from the bedroom window that greets the sun's morning rays to the night light that watches over sleeping dreamers.
An English girl, a Polish refugee, and a displaced boy from the Orient explore an island-strewn river flowing past the ancient manor house of Green Knowe.
A young boy listens to his great-grandmother's tales of Green Knowe as it used to be and, gradually, as past and present blend, he shares the strange adventures of the former inhabitants.
The inhabitants of Green Knowe become involved with black magic when a modern-day witch attempts to find books of witchcraft supposedly hidden in the old house by a mad seventeenth-century alchemist.
A history of home design from prehistoric times through the twentieth century, with see-through pages allowing the reader to look inside an Assyrian palace, a French ch?teau, a Mayan village, and a weaver's cottage.
