Our House

by Emma Rogers, Paul Rogers, Priscilla Lamont (Illustrator)

A look at the different families that have lived in a house during the two hundred years since it was first built

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Family

40 pages, Hardcover

First published March 28, 1991

About the author

Emma and Paul Rogers are a husband and wife team who write picture books. They live in France, where Paul teaches English at a local school.

Reviews

[Hilary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reread this today. A favourite of both my children from years ago. The story follows a house that becomes a home. We always liked the line 'Mother, Mother, I've planted an acorn in the yard, who'll grow big first, the oak tree or me ? ' Families and decades pass. Hot water, electricity, seasons and babies arrive. But still the house is a home. Lovely story about the continuity of life and the permanence of architecture.

[Lady reading under the Willow · Rating 3 out of 5]

This concept would make a fun chapter book, or even a novel. It would have been interesting to have each family's life and time period fleshed out into longer stories.

[Mathew · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a beautiful little story which looks at the life of a house and the families who build it and live in it. Spanning from 1780 to 1990, Lamont's 'Janet Ahlberg' type illustrations are warm, busy and exciting and much like Janet, there is so much going on in the incidental stories which the keen observer can uncover.
It was a delight to see the different families, cultures and times displayed within and around the house as well as the idea of the house being a sentient character themselves.

[Taylor Hutton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really lovely book that shows that childhood doesn't change at all through time, whilst other things do.