The House Baba Built
By: Ed Young, Libby Koponen
Little Brown Books for Young Readers / October, 2011
Hardcover
Little Brown Books for Young Readers
Grade Range: p to 3, Age Range: 4 to 8
ISBN: 9780316076289, ISBN10: 0316076287
Picture Book, 10 x 10 inches, 32 pages, full color throughout,

I knew nothing could happen to us within those walls, in the house Baba built.

In Ed Young's childhood home in Shanghai, all was not as it seemed: a rocking chair became a horse; a roof became a roller rink; an empty swimming pool became a place for riding scooters and bikes. The house his father built transformed as needed into a place to play hide-and-seek, to eat bamboo shoots, and to be safe.

For outside the home's walls, China was at war. Soon the house held not only Ed and his four siblings but also friends, relatives, and even strangers who became family. The war grew closer, and Ed watched as planes flew overhead and frends joined the Chinese air force. But through it all, Ed's childhood remained full of joy and imagination.