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Here is a picture book that has done a remarkable thing—the author has reduced the steps of building a new home, from blueprint to welcome mat, to its bare essentials and written the story in jaunty rhyme that very young readers will both understand, and enjoy. A husband-and-wife construction team, their handy pet dog ever present, builds a brand-new home throughout a series of funny, bright, and bold two-page spreads. Even the end paper design features a pattern of the many tools that have been used by the main characters throughout the story told inside. Boys and girls alike will love finding out what is behind the walls and under the floors of a house just like theirs as they watch it take shape. And they will want to see it happen, again and again. Children's Literature

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