Uma Wimple Charts Her House

By Reif Larsen and Ben Gibson

Book Overview

Hip, funny, unique--and a perfect curriculum tie-in--here's a picture book with mega kid-appeal about the challenges a student faces when she is given an assignment to make a chart of her own home!

Uma's been making charts since she was a little kid. But when her teacher gives the class Uma's dream assignment--to make a chart of their own homes--she is thrown for a loop. Oh, the possibilities! Oh, the pressure! What makes a house housey? she wonders. In order to figure it out, she asks each member of her family--Mom, Dad, and brothers Rex, Bram, and Lukey. But it's not until she has a meltdown and Lukey comforts her that Uma figures out the secret to her chart--and her family. It's the love that is shared inside a house's walls.

Told in first-person and featuring engaging graphic artwork, this fun and lively picture book--perfect for classroom use--is a reminder that someone's true home is not a place, but rather the people with whom you surround yourself.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593181182
• ISBN13: 9780593181188
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Anne Schwartz Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.2" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Great book to use to learn how to represent data!

Uma's teacher gives the class what Uma thinks is a dream assignment. Make a chart of our own home. However, Uma who draws doodles, sketches, maps, and charts her world, isn't sure she knows what makes a house housey? Uma figures it is her family. family love levels that is shared inside the house's walls. She chart shows the Wimple family love levels and a diagrm that illusrates her family and many attributes of her house. If you are looking for a how to chart book, this might not be it. There are charts among the illustrations and the inside covers have an example of a pie chart, bar chart, venn diagram, pyramid chart, map, and tree. I think its best use would be to review different ways to represent data, which along with these examples there are many illustrations used to represent ideas like kinds of roofs, brick patterns and other attributes of houses and homes