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Home Is a Wish

by Julia Kuo
Julia Kuo
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A deeply moving, gorgeously illustrated picture book about leaving home and finding a new place to fit in, for anyone dealing with a move, to another town or to a new country.

Sometimes we leave home in the mornings, in the evenings, or for much longer. But we always come back.
Home becomes a wish when we move, when the new place isn't the same. Everything might be different: the sounds, the smell, the people, the weather.
But home isn't just a place. We carry home in our hearts, and it can grow and change as we do in our lives. With time, new faces become friends, and what is different becomes familiar.
Home can be a wish that comes true.
Like Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away and The Day You Begin, this beautiful exploration of what it's like to deal with a big change is personal, emotionally resonant, and relatable. With page after lovely page of captivating art, New York Times bestselling illustrator Julia Kuo has created a lasting story about how time, patience, and an open heart can help someone feel at home anywhere in the world.

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    February 4, 2025

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      • ISBN: 9781250415035
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  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      Starred review from December 15, 2024
      A child who moves overseas grapples with what home is. The young unnamed East Asian-presenting narrator explains home in basic terms: "In the mornings we leave home, and in the evenings we return." Sometimes the family members--consisting of the little one, Mama, and Amah (Taiwanese forGrandmother)--go away for a longer time, but they always come back...until one day, they leave for good. As their plane flies across the ocean, "home becomes a wish." They arrive in a strange new place with unfamiliar people and sounds. "How can this be our home?" the protagonist asks. Kuo's spare yet graceful prose and her signature graphic-style artwork, beautifully saturated with pinks and blues, imbue this simple story with heft. One particularly moving double-page spread depicts the narrator in a canoe on a vast sea rowing away from the family's old apartment building on one side toward their new house on the other. And then, "slowly, odd becomes ordinary, and strange becomes sweet." The child comes to some profound realizations: "There are different homes for different times: a home from before, a home for now, even a home for later." A close reading into the landscapes (Seattle's Space Needle can be seen in one spread) and clues such as the use of Taiwanese show just how far this family has come. Elegantly constructed yet warmly comforting--a soothing balm for children undergoing similar changes.(Picture book. 4-8)

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