![]() in the classroom library: Come Over to My House by Theo LeSieg The Little House by Virginia. ![]() Some houses are marble and some are just tin.īut they're all alike when a friend asks you in.Įxpand your world view and check this one out. The teacher can print out a word bank of houses, furniture. ![]() Some houses are rich, full of silver and gold.Īnd some are quite poor, sort of empty and old. I'm really into reading books to my son of late that have a larger experience to explain than just what is written in the words.Įvery house in the world has a ceiling and floor.īut the ones you'll like best have a wide-open door. 1, 1966 In a faraway place/in a wide empty land/my house is a tent/ in the wind and the sand.'' All of the verses are at this deadly level and none of the various sorts of houses in an international lineup of quaint dwellings that go from hots to stilt shacks are identified by country. Awesome or what!?!) Such a cool read and opens up a myriad of different conversations to have with your child. A lone little boy wanders across the globe and sees what life is like in different houses from thatched huts to tents in the wind. Geisel, Come Over to My House is a multicultural look at playdates around the world and the homes and young people that go with them. ![]() Those with a design knack often blog about this illustrator as evidenced here and here, and in this great writeup at grainedit (one of my favorite sites) on another of Erdoes' books - Policemen Around the World. ![]()
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