The Mellon family have outgrown their flat. It's time to move, but none of the houses they look at are quite right, so they decide to build their own. Masha designs a house that accommodates the Mellons' needs, their budget, and most importantly, the environment. It is an eco-house!
What shall we build, you and I? I'll build your future and you'll build mine. We'll build a watch to keep our time. A father and daughter set about laying the foundations for their life together. Using their own special tools, they get to work; building memories to cherish, a home to keep them safe and love to keep them warm.
On the outskirts of Berlin, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. Over the course of a century, this little house played host to a loving Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, wartime refugees and a Stasi informant; in that time, a world war came and went, and the Berlin Wall was built a stone's throw from the cottage's back door.
Adapting themselves to all kinds of landscapes and climates, humans have used their architectural ingeniousness to build amazing dwellings: find them here, from houses on stilts and igloos to tree houses and skyscrapers.
A Traveller girl with a passion for design and technology collects cans for her local recycling plant and uses the metal to renovate an elderly neighbour's caravan.
This magical story follows three children living in a tower block, as they embark on a fantastical adventure which helps them see their home in a new light. A deeply personal story written by the award winning poet Joseph Coelho, this story is a celebration of, and a reclaiming of tower blocks as a place where magic and adventure can happen.
A lonely little girl and her grandparent need to fill the run-down apartment in their building. But taking over the rooms above their shop will mean major renovations for the new occupants, and none of the potential renters can envision the possibilities of the space - until one special couple shows up. With their ingenuity, the little girl's big heart, and heaps of hard work, the desperate fixer-upper begins to change in lovely and surprising ways.
In the house there lives a family: a mum, a dad, a girl and a boy. But they are not alone; a secret mouse family is living there too, who only come out when everyone else is asleep. One day they are spotted and the mouse catcher is called. Will they escape in time? A story of home and hope from John Burningham.
This title introduces children to ten amazing and unusual types of home. They can experience life high up in a tree house or cuddled up cosy in an igloo; find out what it's like to live underground or in a noisy, working windmill. Two spectacular double gatefolds allow them to see whether having hundreds of rooms in a castle is as exciting as it sounds, or whether floating about on a canal is more their style.
The animals of Park View Rise all love their high-rise home. It's peaceful, calm and quiet - no one here would cause a riot. But when Honky Tonk sings much too loudly, Smart Alec's DIY goes all wrong and Sugar Plum's freshly baked treats are ruined, well, all hell breaks loose! Luckily, Kitsy Bitsy arrives just in time to teach her neighbours about the importance of kindness - and an enormous cake brings everyone together for a party!
Iggy has one passion - building. His parents are proud of his fabulous creations, though they are sometimes surprised by his materials. But, when his second-grade teacher declares her dislike of his architecture, Iggy faces a challenge. He loves building too much to give it up!
Get designing and building with architect and TV presenter George Clarke. From marvellous materials to future tech - discover the stories behind our homes. This non-fiction journey has colourful, playful artwork throughout by Robert Sae-Heng.
Travel back in time and explore homes from seven different eras: Late Middle Ages, Tudor, Georgian, Victorian, 1920s, 1960s and present day. Peek through the windows, discover the rooms inside and spot the family members. Then, learn a bit more about the family, spot the pieces of furniture that appear in more than one house, and find out what people wore in each era.
Wherever we may choose to roam, we need a place to call our home. Follow a little bear as he discovers a host of animal homes and more in this beautiful die-cut picture book.
Home might be a house in the country, a flat in the city, or even a shoe. There are clean homes, messy homes, sea homes and bee homes. Home resides on the road or the sea, in the realm of myth, or in the artist's own studio.
This charming Georgian house is furnished with period furniture, fixtures and fittings from elegant Chippendale chairs in the dining room to copper pans in the kitchen. Look out for a wig-stand in the master's bedroom, a paintbox in the parlour and a miniature doll's house in the nursery. There's even a carriage house complete with horses.
With action-packed artwork from Klas Fahlén and a gentle narrative text by Polly Faber, find out all about the people, machines, processes, and tools involved in breathing new life into an old building. Packed with builders, cranes, diggers, cement mixers and a host of other exciting tools and machinery, follow a crumbling old factory on the edge of town as it goes from being an empty shell to something entirely new - a home.
A young brick goes on a journey to find her place in the world by visiting ten celebrated brick structures around the globe.
Observed through the window of a house, a city street gradually becomes a place to call home as the inhabitants begin to rescue their street by planting grass and trees in the empty spaces. Told wordlessly and with stunning collage illustrations, Belonging explores the re-greening of the city and the role of community, the empowerment of people and the significance of neighbourhood in changing the urban environment for the better.
Think of the street you live on. Now think of how it may have looked in the Stone Age in 10,000 BCE, or in Victorian times during the Industrial Revolution, or how it may look 50 years from now. This book takes you on a time-travelling journey that you won't forget. You will see magnificent buildings go up and come down, new churches built on the site of ancient temples, wooden bridges destroyed and then remade in stone, and statues demolished then unearthed many years later.
From city apartments and Dutch houseboats to Mongolian yurts, Maasai mud huts and underground desert homes, kids discover the different ways people live around the world in this fascinating glimpse into global abodes.
