Jacks House [Hb]

(Hardback)

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Construction-equipment loving boys will adore this humourous twist on the classic nursery rhyme. Someone has done a lot of work building a house. Someone has been operating a cement mixer, driving a bulldozer, and using a forklift to build walls, frame windows, and nail down a roof. Someone has built a big, strong home for Jack. But is this the house that Jack built One tired puppy dog disagrees in this story about getting what you work for.

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"A wonderful twist on an age-old rhyme....This beguiling book will be a hit both at storytimes and in circulating collections, for those who really want to know how Jack's house got built."
"Delivers in spades."

Author Bio

Karen Magnuson Beil is a former reporter for Chicago's City News Bureau and has also worked as an editor and science writer. She has written several books for children; including "Fire in Their Eyes." A New England native, she now lives in New York State with her family. Mike Wohnoutka has been creating art since his childhood. A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, he has illustrated "Cowboy Sam and Those Confounded Secrets," "The Foot-Stomping Adventures of Clementine Sweet," as well as a number of other books for children. He and his family live in Minneapolis.