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Rosenthal, Betsy R.

My House Is Singing

32 pp. | Harcourt | April, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-15-216293-3 $$16.00

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine. These twenty-eight verses celebrate the comforts of home and convey the experience of spending a day with the narrator as she appreciates what makes her house special to her. Reflections on the familiar make the poems accessible, and there's some lighthearted humor. The flat, patterned illustrations are impressionistic, leaving lots of space for readers to contemplate the music of their own dwellings.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2004