houses

Tells about the different kinds of homes around the world. Includes caves, teepees, bungalows, and palaces.

Oscar Mouse searches for a home of his own when the attic where he lives becomes too crowded with little brothers and sisters.

A child visits a friend who lives in a topsy-turvy house.

As an African-American boy and his white friend watch the construction of a house which will make them neighbors on the site of a Civil War battlefield, they agree that their homes are monuments to that war.

A wise man tells Ming Lo how to move the mountain away from his house.

A simple discussion of different kinds of houses and what makes them homes.

Lists in rhyme the dwellings of various animals and things.

Rhyming text invites the reader to search different rooms of a house to find hidden objects.

When Alena and her family move onto new farmland out on the prairie, they must live at first in the chickenhouse because there is no time to build a house before winter; then with the warm weather comes the excitement of watching the big new house go up.

Simple text and illustrations describe basic steps for safety in the home.