The picture of a Russian home, for instance, includes a samovar on the table and an onion-domed church out the kitchen window. I enjoyed the cyclical ending (or beginning) of this book and how Ellis' journey through different homes, imaginary as well as wholly real all blossomed from the artist's studio (final picture). Overall, “Home” is a very simple and to-the-point book for the young ones (perhaps too simple); but has a positive message. Addendum: I see that Home has been criticized for some stereotyping, when it comes to who lives where - a young girl of color living in a graffiti-covered urban apartment building, for instance - as well as some poorly thought out juxtapositions.

Carson Ellis attempts to expand acceptance and preclude any judgments towards the classification of homes in, “Home”. When I was little, I was fascinated with the different types of houses people had all around the world. We liked the way some homes were real and some like the Moonian's house and the home of the Norse god were fantasy. Recommended to fans of Ellis' artwork, or to those who have enjoyed Jon Klassen's books, which have a very similar visual feeling to them.Discussion: I could spend hours looking at the pictures in this book, ferreting out half-hidden delightful details. Coming as it does before the "home" in a shoe - a clear fairy-tale reference - I myself read the Middle-Eastern scene as a reference to the story of Aladdin, and have to wonder if these critics are simply unaware of that story, and ignorant of the wider storytelling tradition of The Arabian Nights. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. Therefore, the illustrations in “Home” are very much in the hipster-indie art realm and can be imagined being sold on Etsy.

Influential artist Carson Ellis makes her solo picture-book debut with a beautifully imaginative tribute to the many possibilities of home. And it doesn’t just cover the habitats of people: for example, one page shows the home of a raccoon, and one shows the home of a Norse god. Author/illustrator Carson Ellis adds many little informative features to let you know about life in each type of home. I imagine kids might want to know, to name but a few things: What is this Atlantis that looks so intriguing? It was disappointing to see an apartment being depicted as in the city amongst pollution and graffiti, which read (to me) as less desirable than many of the other homes.At some point, Ellis does switch to fanciful imagery and homes that are under the sea, in tree hollows.

Carson Ellis, an illustrator known for her work on her musician/author husband Colin Meloy's album covers and novels, makes her solo debut with this picture-book, which profiles a variety of homes, realistic and imaginary. I would have treasured this beautiful book with its imaginative survey of houses around the planet and even beyond it! We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. The picture book debut of Carson Ellis, acclaimed illustrator of the Wildwood series and Lemony Snicket’s The Composer is Dead, this is a gorgeous, imaginative celebration of the many possibilities of home.We loved the cover which shows homes such as a yurt, a barn, a caravan, a geodesic dome, a shoe with a roof, a snail shell. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. The picture book debut of Carson Ellis, acclaimed illustrator of the Wildwood series and Lemony Snicket's The Composer is Dead, this is a gorgeous, imaginative celebration of the many possibilities of home. I appreciated Ellis' subtle but appealing color palette, and found that her use of stylized figures and objects helped to create a charmingly retro-vintage feeling.

I liked the whimsical story about the many different homes that exist--both real and fantastical--but it was the art that took my breath away. Uniquely, “Home” then takes turn showing the interior of homes versus the exterior and then switching it up yet again by presenting homes (even fantasy ones) which engage a child’s creativity by asking who lives in them. This book looks at different types of homes and while I did appreciate that the reader is invited to guess/wonder at who might reside in a few of the homes, I felt limited by some of the other homes.One criticism I have seen that strikes me as misguided is the one that claims that the scene set in a Middle-Eastern palace, complete with underground lair containing piles of gold, is an example of some kind of Orientalist exotification.