A very special house
Readers rate it 3.0 (2 on Hardcover)
32 pages · Released 1981 · Harper Collins
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This Caldecott Honor picture book is a whimsical, rhyming celebration of imagination and acceptance. A boy designs a special house to care for animals others might reject or fear, including a dead mouse and aging lion. The story gently explores themes of compassion and creative problem-solving with Sendak's distinctive, slightly quirky illustrations that may briefly feel eerie but are ultimately reassuring.
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A boy imagines a house to bring home a turtle, a little dead mouse, a very old lion, and where nobody ever says stop. A boy imagines a house to bring home a turtle, a little dead mouse, a very old lion, and where nobody ever says stop.
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- Stories in rhyme
- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Imagination
- Home
- Dwellings
- Houses
- collectionID:caldecotthonor50
- Children's fiction
- Picture books
- Houses, fiction
- Folklore, united states
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ISBN 9780060286385 · Harper Collins