Home We Dreamed

Anca Sandu Budisan

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Home We Dreamed

Home We Dreamed

Anca Sandu Budisan

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Part Virgina Lee Burton's The Little House, part Yuyi Morales's Dreamers, this heartfelt, lyrical, and expansive story charts the history of a house that becomes the center of one generation, then the next, and then the next, told from the point of view of a grandchild who remembers spending her summers there.

All my grandparents had left was a small plot of land next to a river.

That's where they built their home.

From soil to straw to bricks, readers will follow along with a couple, living in Communist Romania, who build their own home, raise a family, and watch--page by page--as the world around them changes. Narrated by the future grandchild of this couple, this story shows multiple generations raised in this home, the environmental and political changes happening around its plot of land, and the continuous love sprouting from its walls.

Critical Reviews

Gently shaded colored pencil and watercolor illustrations chronicle the simple joy that fills the home [a] family grows. It's a wistful telling that pinpoints the way place can house memories. - Publishers Weekly

Publishing Information

Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Pub date: 2026-05-26
Length: 40 pages

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