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How a House Is Built (New & Updated) by Gibbons, Gail is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.

What is How a House Is Built (New & Updated) about?

<p>Describes how the surveyor, heavy machinery operators, carpenter crew, plumbers, and other workers build a house.</p><h3>School Library Journal</h3><p>As readers quickly comprehend, building a house is a complex project requiring the cooperative efforts of many people. With her usual skill, Gibbons makes the process easy to understand. Beginning with the architect who draws the plans, readers meet the surveyors, equipment operators, carpenters, plumbers, and other people who produce a building. The book concludes with a family moving in, ready to make the house a home. Although children in some parts of the country will not relate specifically to houses with basements or septic systems, How a House Is Built provides basic, general information without oversimplifying. The illustrations are typical of Gibbons' style: bright colors, clean lines, and captions where necessary to define unfamiliar terms. Women are well represented in many non-traditional roles but not much racial diversity is shown. An appended page encourages comparison of modern frame houses to simple houses of the past. Building a House (Greenwillow, 1981) by Byron Barton offers less detailed information for younge

Who reads How a House Is Built (New & Updated)?

It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.

Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.

Author
Gibbons, Gail
Publisher
Scholastic, Incorporated
Published
1990
Language
EN
ISBN
9780590726283
Category
children's
Subjects
Technology, Children'S, Fiction
Rating
4.7 / 5 (445 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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