Books like This Is Our House
By Hyewon Yum
For the kid who wants to know where they came from, this book turns one ordinary house into the whole story of a family. Quiet, tender, and steady, with the gentle pull of seasons turning.
A six-year-old boy spends his days in his grandfather Luis's towering garden, learning bird names, playful expressions, and reading and writing from a grandfather who never had schooling of his own.
On a quiet rainy morning while Papa and Luca sleep, a little girl follows her mama through their cinnamon-scented house, wanting to be wherever Mama is.
A parent shares a string of tender wishes for a child — to find wonder in flying birds, to know love as vast and constant as the moon loves the sky.
A boy tags along for a Friday night shift at the school where his dad works as a custodian, shooting baskets in the half-lit gym and sweeping the stage while the rest of the city sleeps.
A boy and his father fish before dawn at a Minneapolis pond, not for sport but for food, while stories of a different pond back in Vietnam quietly surface between casts.
Twelve poems follow one family through a full year, from January sledding to July fireworks to autumn leaves underfoot, finding wonder in each month's particular light and weather.
A family leaves the comfortable, familiar house they love and moves somewhere new, discovering that home is really the people you share it with.
A day in the life of family and friends unfolds from morning to night, moving from a tiny shell on the beach to the wide, darkening sunset sky.
A close look inside a real farmhouse where twelve children once lived, growing up amid the daily rhythms of family life beside a winding stream.
An immigrant family stitches a quilt from old clothing to remember home in Russia, and for four generations that same quilt is passed from mother to daughter through weddings, Sabbaths, and births.
A woman looks back on her childhood in the mountains, remembering swimming holes, kitchen baths, and quiet family evenings that made ordinary days feel worth keeping.
Two children upset about being apart from their mother learn that everyone who loves each other is connected by an Invisible String made of love, one that stretches any distance and never breaks.
