PICTURE BOOK BLOG TOUR : A Home Again by Colleen Rowan Kosinski



ABOUT THE BOOK

After the last brick is laid, a family moves into a brand-new house. As the family grows, the house delights in the sound of laughter echoing in its halls and the pitter-patter of little feet traversing its floors and realizes it is no longer just a house. It has become a home—their home. One day, the family packs up, and with tears in their eyes, they say goodbye. The house doesn’t know if it can ever be happy again until two men appear. It begins to feel a sliver of hope about this new family…perhaps it can become a home once more.

Told from the perspective of a house, this story’s heartfelt text and beautiful illustrations convey a warmth of feeling as two families change and grow at different times within the same four walls. 

PROFESSIONAL COMMENTS

“The expert use of light and dark creates beautiful, emotional contrasts of warmth and isolation—a wonderful match of both verbal and visual tone…Heartfelt and filled with possible connections for families.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Sleekly rendered acrylic and colored pencil art…casts the house’s interior in rich chiaroscuro…in this familiar narrative of being left behind and learning to love again.” —Publishers Weekly

ABOUT THE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR

Colleen Rowan Kosinski is the author-illustrator of Lilla’s Sunflowers and A Promise Stitched in Time. She received her BA from Rutgers University in visual art, is an alumna of Philadelphia’s Moore College of Art, and spent many years as a successful freelance fine artist. Colleen calls New Jersey her home and resides there with her family. Learn more at colleenrowankosinski.com.

Facebook: Colleen Rowan Rosinski

Twitter: @ColleenKosinski

Instagram: @colleenkosinski

 

Valeria Docampo has a background in fine arts and has also been a teacher. She is the illustrator of many books for publishers around the world, including La Grande Fabrique de Mots, which has been translated into thirty languages. Originally from Argentina, she now makes her home in France with her family. Learn more at valeriadocampo.com.

 

Facebook: Valeria Docampo

Twitter: DocampoValeria

Instagram: @valeriadocampo


REVIEW


When completed the house that tells this story is thrilled to welcome a family into it.  The house grows to love the the mom, dad, and three children who pitter-patter, cook, and laugh within its walls.  But when the family moves away, the house is heart-broken and does everything in its power to keep anyone else from moving in. When a new family arrives and works to fix up the house, whether the house likes it or not, the house begrudgingly lets the work continue.   And when the family grows to become two dads and a child, the house's heart softens further. Eventually the house has to decide whether it is willing to be a home again and not just a house.  This sweet, gentle story starts with love, travels through the sorrow of loss, and the walls that loss can bring, before returning back to the power of love again.  A lovely addition to stories about what home really means.  The illustrator's excellent use of space and light and dark colors highlights the feelings the house experiences as it travels through love, loss, and back to love.






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