Farmhouse

Title:

Farmhouse

Author:

Summary:

Step inside the dollhouse-like interior of Farmhouse and relish in the daily life of the family that lives there, rendered in impeccable, thrilling detail. Based on a real family and an actual farmhouse where Sophie salvaged facts and artifacts for the making of this spectacular work, page after page bursts with luminous detail and joy. Join the award-winning, best-selling Sophie Blackall as she takes readers on an enchanting visit to a farmhouse across time, to a place that echoes with stories. -- Amazon.

Audience:

Ages 4-8. Little, Brown and Company.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm

Genre:

Picture books.

Subject Term:

Farmhouses -- Juvenile fiction.

Dwellings -- Juvenile fiction.

Farm life -- Juvenile fiction.

Families -- Juvenile fiction.

Publisher:

Little, Brown and Company,

Publication Date:

2022

ISBN:

9780316528948

Publication Information:

New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.

Call Number:

P BLACKALL

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

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Summary

Two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall invites readers to peek through windows that shine like real glass on this lavish book's cover, and explore the dollhouse-like world of a beloved farmhouse where twelve children were born and raised.

Over a hill, at the end of a road, by a glittering stream that twists and turns stands a farmhouse.

Step inside the dollhouse-like interior of Farmhouse and relish in the daily life of the family that lives there, rendered in impeccable, thrilling detail. Based on a real family and an actual farmhouse where Sophie salvaged facts and artifacts for the making of this spectacular work, page after page bursts with luminous detail and joy. Join the award-winning, best-selling Sophie Blackall as she takes readers on an enchanting visit to a farmhouse across time, to a place that echoes with stories.

Author Notes

Sophie Blackall was born in 1970 and grew up in Australia. She received a Bachelor of Design in Sydney in 1992 with honors. She spent the following few years painting robotic characters for theme parks, providing the hands for a DIY television show, and writing a household hints column. She also had many exhibitions of paintings in galleries in Sydney and Melbourne.

She moved to New York City in 2000. Her editorial illustrations have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Architectural Digest, Town and Country, Vogue, and Gourmet. She has illustrated over thirty books for children including Ruby's Wish, Meet Wild Boars, Pecan Pie Baby, Big Red Lollipop, and the Ivy and Bean series. She won the 2016 Randolph Caldecott Medal for the Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear and the 2019 Randolph Caldecott Medal for Hello Lighthouse. Her first book for adults was entitled Missed Connections: Love, Lost and Found.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In rhythmic, lightly rhyming verse and densely textured multimedia spreads whose collaged layers mimic the strata of stories built up over generations, two-time Caldecott Medalist Blackall relays the history of a white clapboard farmhouse "where twelve children/ were born and raised,/ where they learned to crawl,/ in the short front hall." Gently affectionate lines and impish portraits of the siblings, who read as white, imagine their young lives in mischief, play, and work as they "whispered secrets,/ played truth or dare,/ and lost their teeth/ and brushed their hair." Cleverly rendered cutaway images, meanwhile, hint visually at adjoining rooms while centering myriad objects: rag rugs, prize ribbons, "a button/ that was once a shell in the sea," and more. After the last family member eventually departs, and the house falls into decay ("the parlor organ that rattled with nuts,/ put there by a squirrel with rather a fuss"), a turn toward authorial self-insertion pushes the once unsalvageable "falling-down house" into the here and now. The tale's strong sense of place undergirds Blackall's witness to the way environments change over time and stories survive long after material objects disappear, in a thoughtful, expertly executed work that looks simultaneously forward and back. An author's note details the story behind the Upstate New York farmhouse. Ages 4--8. Agent: Nancy Gallt, Gallt & Zacker Literary. (Sept.)