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A House Is a House for Me

by Mary Ann Hoberman, Betty Fraser · 1978

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In a rollicking rhyme, the author introduces us to all types of homes for both people and animals. The poem engages in flights of fancy - what about a husk being a house for an ear of corn, or a throat being a house for a hum? "And once you get started in thinking this way,/ It seems that whatever you see/ Is either a house or it lives in a house,/ And a house is a house for me!" whimsical drawings color the imaginative text.

Themes
animalscreativity
Setting
1970s
Subject
science
Audience
childrenspicture books
Length
short · 48 pages
Form
poetryrhyming

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