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In this creative continuation of the award-winning If I Built series, Jack imagines what his ideal living situation would look like by constructing the house of his dreams. “My house will be nifty! My house will be neat! My house will stand out as the best on the street!” One day, while out in the garden with his mom, Jack decides that his house could use some exciting improvements. Like a racetrack! And a flying playroom! And maybe even a gigantic slide. Jack's limitless creativity and infectious enthusiasm will inspire budding young inventors to imagine their own fantastical designs. Complete with Chris Van Dusen's vibrant, retro illustrations and delightfully rhyming text, this joyful, imaginative read-aloud will make readers feel right at home. Review: Would reccomend, great little book! - Bought to read to a 1st grade class - they stayed engaged and really seemed to enjoy the story. And it had great illustrations too. Worked perfectly for the little STEM activity we planned - read this book and followed up with a tower building challenge using just solo cups. Teachers and kids loved it! Review: Love this authors books! - Always love Chris Van Dusen books, fun easy reads that spark the imagination we have a few and have borrowed others from the library




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| Customer Reviews | 4.9 out of 5 stars 2,265 Reviews |
L**A
Would reccomend, great little book!
Bought to read to a 1st grade class - they stayed engaged and really seemed to enjoy the story. And it had great illustrations too. Worked perfectly for the little STEM activity we planned - read this book and followed up with a tower building challenge using just solo cups. Teachers and kids loved it!
I**L
Love this authors books!
Always love Chris Van Dusen books, fun easy reads that spark the imagination we have a few and have borrowed others from the library
B**Y
Family Favorite
My children LOVE this book. The illustrations are creative, unique, and fun. The author uses rhyming to tell the story. It is a family favorite and I don't get bored reading it over and over again! Highly recommend this book!
N**E
Great book
My kids love this book.
E**N
Fun book to read
Love this book. We bought it together with If You Built a School and both of them are awesome. My girl cannot put them down. Nice illustrations and ideas.
J**A
I read this book to my son every night.
I love this book. This book will be one of the few impressionable things that will make up my son's childhood. I read this to him every night. We have a stack of children's books and I ask him to pick three books in the pile for me to read to him and he always pulls out a combination of three books that includes this book, or even "If I build a school" and "if I built a car." The illustrations are amazing and stoke the imagination and the words rhyme like a dr. seuss book which always keeps the engagement. Dear Author, you could write "if I built a train" or "if I built and airplane" or any other iteration and we would buy them. We already own all of them. Are you listening?
J**N
My 1st graders love this book series!
My 1st graders love this book series!
B**2
Does not disappoint!!!
I think all of Chris Van Dusen's books are amazing. I have a 4 year old and we love reading his books. This newest book, If I Built A House definitely does not disappoint. My son loved If I Built A Car, which is the first book about this same little boy, Jack, who has big ideas. I had high expectations with this new one and I actually think it's better than the original. My son is hugely into race cars and trampolines, both of which are featured in this new book. So, for him, this house is PERFECT. LOL. He keeps asking to read this over and over again. Right after reading it for the first time, my son grabbed his Legos so that he could work on building his dream home, as well. LOL Huge hit!!! I would recommend ANY and ALL of Chris Van Dusen's books to everyone. They are all amazing. But, If I Built A House is one of the best. The pictures are amazing and the story has a very nice flow. We love it.
R**N
Fun and creative book
Very fun and creative book.
G**O
Amazing book
Great and fun story. I love the illustrations, the colors and the text. The kids cannot giving up to read it. I totally recommended
C**R
Lo recomiendo sin dudarlo
Perfecto, debería haber más libros como este, a mí hijo de 4 años le cuesta mantener la atención en un libro al completo, este libro lo consiguió. Y un 10 también a las ilustraciones.
M**R
Imaginative, great pictures and great fun!
The pictures and rhyming that actually made sense! A fun, imaginative book.
E**X
If I Built a House
I bought it for a project work. Overall it is a great book for preschoolers.
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