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From Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña, the author behind the #1 New York Times bestseller Love, comes a moving meditation on the places we feel most comfortable, loved, and protected—wherever that might be.
Home is a tired lullaby
and a late-night traffic that mumbles in
through a crack in your curtains.

Home is the faint trumpet of a distant barge
as your grandfather casts his line
from the edge of his houseboat.
With lyrical text, Matt de la Peña celebrates the beauty and love found in every home, no matter its size. They show how a home is more than just a place . . . People can be a kind of home—a family and a community that cares for one another. And the natural world is another kind of home, a refuge we share with every living thing on Earth.
This deeply moving ode to the universal pull of home, whatever its form, is destined to become a new classic that will be cherished by listeners of every age.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from November 25, 2024
      De la Peña and Long, the duo behind Love, reteam to consider another universally resonant concept: home. A series of warmly lit scenes show children in residences where home is sensed in a city’s nighttime hours (“a tired lullaby/ and... late-night traffic that mumbles”) and vibrations beneath a flight path (“the rumble/ you feel through the floorboards”). When one’s “heart syncs up/ with the hurry of the world,” home becomes further defined by movement and perception (“an early-morning jackhammer,” “the eighteen-wheel groan/ of your father’s big rig”). Hard times and weather emergencies are real, second-person text communicates, inviting readers to think of home as more than a physical place: “not a house you leave behind/ but the people who walk beside you.” Sparkling landscapes suggest these are home, too: “not the walls we build up/... but the wild, wild world outside.” In a striking portrait, a child looks directly at the reader, the bright reflection in each pupil a tiny image of Earth, and a startling reminder of the planet everyone calls home. The creators tell a moving story about cultivating home in different places—one that leans into themes of healing, resilience, and finding center. Characters are represented with various abilities and skin tones. Ages 4–8. Agent (for author and illustrator): Steven Malk, Writers House.

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