The House Takes a Vacation by Jacqueline Davies, illustrated by Lee White 2007
Why wouldn’t the house take a vacation at the same time as the Peterson family? The chimney grudgingly agrees they should travel to the sea after much prodding from the sunporch, the bedroom windows, and the roof. The basement stays behind because he “refused to rise to the occasion.”
The expressions of the different parts of the house are amusing, and there is a plethora of silly puns. The house experiences the Dance of the Sunlight on the ocean, and even passes dangerously close to the Peterson’s sunbathing on the beach. The Peterson’s arrive home right after the house, and find it looking quite bedraggled; decorated with seaweed, and an octopus. They thought they were the only ones who took a vacation, but we know better.
Appropriate for ages 4-8
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