The Patchwork House Sally Fitz-Gibbon illustrated by Dean Griffiths

One day long ago, a farmer went looking for land. When he at last found a little hill overlooking the valley and the mountains beyond, he smiled to himself and said, "This is the place for me." He cleared the land, built a house and brought home a bride.

As the years go by and one generation of owners passes the home on to another, the house grows and changes. A Japanese family extends the garden and adds a bathhouse; a Finnish family builds another storey and turns the bathhouse into a sauna. A barn and verandah are added, orchards grow, the trees extend their shade and family after family love the house and make it their own. A subtle and quietly poetic story, The Patchwork House builds layer on layer of past generations and different cultures as it explores the question of what makes an old house a home.

Sally Fitz-Gibbon is a therapeutic tutor who works with learning-disabled children. Born in England, she lives in Maple Ridge, near Vancouver, BC.

Born and raised in Duncan on Vancouver Island, Dean Griffiths is an artist with his own line of greeting cards, a video games animator and a sometimes plumber's assistant. This is his first book for children.

ISBN 1-55143-088-6 (cl), 1-55143-090-8 (ppb); $15.95 (cl), $7.95 (ppb); IO x 8 1/4;
32 pp; full-colour illustrations; ages 5 to 9; hardcover no jacket, paperback; August 1996;
Orca Book Publishers.

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ISSN 1201-9364