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The picture book debut of Carson Ellis, acclaimed illustrator of the Wildwood series and Lemony Snicket's The Composer is Dead, this is a gorgeous, imaginative celebration of the many possibilities of home.

I originally brought this book because of a recommendation by OwlCrate, I'm so glad I did as Home was absolute perfection. Others are uncomfortable stereotypes, and should be discussed at length with your child while reading together. if my children were younger we would have loved to sit and look at this and decide which one we liked best and who we thought would live in each one. Uniquely, “Home” then takes turn showing the interior of homes versus the exterior and then switching it up yet again by presenting homes (even fantasy ones) which engage a child’s creativity by asking who lives in them.It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. Discussion: I could spend hours looking at the pictures in this book, ferreting out half-hidden delightful details. Recommended to fans of Ellis' artwork, or to those who have enjoyed Jon Klassen's books, which have a very similar visual feeling to them. Still, this is a worthy first endeavor, and I look forward to seeing what Ellis does in her second picture-book, the recently released Du Iz Tak?

Carson lives on a farm in Oregon with Colin, their two sons, two cats, one llama, three goats, many chickens, and an unfathomable multitude of tree frogs.Although “Home” is intended for small children; the author and illustrator Carson Ellis is known amongst adults as the wife of Colin Meloy, lead singer of the band, The Decemberists. As a debut, I found Ellis' concept of what home means to different people a powerful and thought-provoking discussion. Is the pairing of an old sailing ship with people living in a wigwam an intentional reference to first contact between Europeans and Native Americans? Influential artist Carson Ellis makes her solo picture-book debut with a beautifully imaginative tribute to the many possibilities of home.

The illustration style was wonderful, the only issue I have is that some of the scenes were not fully explained by the text, and might encourage children to believe broad, questionable stereotypes at an early age. Overall, “Home” is a very simple and to-the-point book for the young ones (perhaps too simple); but has a positive message. Influential artist Carson Ellis makes her solo picture-book debut with a whimsical tribute to the many possibilities of home. She uses her colours sparingly, browns, greys, greens and reds to great effect as we follow a little bird - a migrator free to travel anywhere - around the world (both real and imaginary) to places we may never visit.From houses in the country to apartments in the city, from living underwater to living on the road, a diverse range of homes is profiled here: identified in simple statements, and depicted in lovely folk-art illustrations. The focus of “Home” is more on the illustrations than actual prose but the message is clear: people and animals live in diverse dwellings but one is not better than the next. I had mixed feelings on this book, while the illustrations were beautifully done and are quite whimsical, I felt that the actual story did not have a good flow. This book looks at different types of homes and while I did appreciate that the reader is invited to guess/wonder at who might reside in a few of the homes, I felt limited by some of the other homes. I don't know what it was about it (something about the shape of the lines maybe) but I could honestly look at it all day; I want to frame it and put it on my wall.

We liked the way some homes were real and some like the Moonian's house and the home of the Norse god were fantasy. Carson Ellis attempts to expand acceptance and preclude any judgments towards the classification of homes in, “Home”.We loved the cover which shows homes such as a yurt, a barn, a caravan, a geodesic dome, a shoe with a roof, a snail shell. However, don’t expect to be blown away and there are far better similar children’s books on the market. The illustrations remind me of Felicita Sala's or Isabelle Arsenault's work which is huge praise indeed! Coming as it does before the "home" in a shoe - a clear fairy-tale reference - I myself read the Middle-Eastern scene as a reference to the story of Aladdin, and have to wonder if these critics are simply unaware of that story, and ignorant of the wider storytelling tradition of The Arabian Nights. I would have treasured this beautiful book with its imaginative survey of houses around the planet and even beyond it!