A House, a Home (A Charlotte Zolotow Book) - Hardcover

Goffstein, Brooke

9780060224370: A House, a Home (A Charlotte Zolotow Book)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060224371 ISBN 13: 9780060224370

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1989

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Presents the anatomy and soul of a house as seen through a camera's eye.

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In this starkly evocative book, Goffstein uses photographs of a dollhouse made of cardboard and wood that illustrate her views about the relationship between people and the houses they make into homes: "A house has skin / and eyes / and bone, / a head, / a breast, / a heart." People, represented by the same carved wooden figures Goffstein used in Our Prairie Home , "lovingly replace / the house's broken windowpanes / repair its frame, mend its roof" and their "jokes and songs / rise to its ceilings, / and rest beneath its roof." The repetitive photographs are somber, abstract and static. The "breast" of the house, for example, is represented by a wall with three red-framed windows, a paint-peeled joist and a vague shadow. Still, the book's elegant artfulness is bound to be admired by Goffstein's adult fans. All ages.
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