The House Baba Built: An Artist's Childhood in China

by Ed Young and Libby Koponen

Book Overview

I knew nothing could happen to us within those walls, in the house Baba built.

In Ed Young's childhood home in Shanghai, all was not as it seemed: a rocking chair became a horse; a roof became a roller rink; an empty swimming pool became a place for riding scooters and bikes. The house his father built transformed as needed into a place to play hide-and-seek, to eat bamboo shoots, and to be safe.

For outside the home's walls,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316076287
• ISBN13: 9780316076289
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.3" x 12.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 5