Raise the Roof!
by Anastasia Suen (Author) and Elwood H. Smith (Illustrator)
Booktalk: My brothers built homes and my husband is a architect, so home construction has been a part of my life for years. I used our old construction photographs to help me write this 97-word picture book poem.
When the book was being illustrated, the editor asked me if the illustrator could add a dog to the book. I said yes. (We had a dog, so it didn’t seem like an unusual request.) Imagine my surprise when the page proofs for Raise the Roof came and the dog was a builder, too!
A year after the book was published, it came out again (with another publisher) as a PreK literacy program book, making this former Kindergarten ESL teacher very happy!
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