This is Our World: Welcome Home

Visit a diverse range of homes around the world in the latest title in the This Is Our World series.

This Is Our World—Welcome Home!, written by Valerie Wilding, is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed This Is Our World and This Is Our World: Celebrate With Us. It’s a vibrant and colorful celebration of our planet’s diversity—an unforgettable journey that invites young readers into 20 different homes around the world. Our guides are children who tell us about their unique homes and surrounding environments.

The tour is truly global, as we visit a terraced house in the UK to a houseboat in the Netherlands, from an apartment in Tokyo to a cave house in Tunisia.

This is both a beautiful gift book and a highly-accessible home reference, sure to foster an interest in the wider world, in travel, in diversity, and in cultures and religions.

Valerie Wilding loves writing for children, and she can’t imagine doing anything else. She was a teacher for many years, a school librarian, but writing took over and that’s how she spends her days. It’s the most challenging and the most satisfying work she’s ever done. Valerie writes fiction and non-fiction and especially enjoys narrative non-fiction, where lots of information is wrapped up in an exciting story. She has written over a hundred books, on all sorts of subjects, and she likes to bring a touch of humor to everything she does.

Åsa Gilland is a Swedish illustrator who loves all things retro, quirky imagery, and folk art themes. She studied interior design at Accademia Italiana Moda and has twenty years of experience in illustration. She illustrated Macmillan's This is Our World and We Are All Different.