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That said, I wasn't quite as impressed with the narrative, which felt random to me, and not in an appealing way. Ellis’s artwork, evocative of folklore and fairytales, may seem familiar because of her illustrations for the book series "Wildwood Chronicles," written by Ellis’s husband, Colin Meloy. The picture of a Russian home, for instance, includes a samovar on the table and an onion-domed church out the kitchen window. The writing and the illustrations blew me away and the story kept my daughter entertained while we were reading! Influential artist Carson Ellis makes her solo picture-book debut with a whimsical tribute to the many possibilities of home.

I found that while I appreciated the individual homes beings portrayed, somehow their juxtaposition just didn't work for me. Is the pairing of an old sailing ship with people living in a wigwam an intentional reference to first contact between Europeans and Native Americans?For instance, there is a young dark skinned girl sitting in an apartment building that is covered in graffiti, the illustration for "Some homes are wigwams" have Indigenous people with bows and arrows, followed by a palace and an underground lair in which Arab, possible Muslim, characters are smoking as they stack gold coins and there is a woman reclining on a pile of gold --as if she is a possession.

I don't know what it was about it (something about the shape of the lines maybe) but I could honestly look at it all day; I want to frame it and put it on my wall. Carson Ellis, an illustrator known for her work on her musician/author husband Colin Meloy's album covers and novels, makes her solo debut with this picture-book, which profiles a variety of homes, realistic and imaginary.We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from.

Ellis begins “Home” by presenting a variety of homes and mentioning the types of creatures to inhabit them.One criticism I have seen that strikes me as misguided is the one that claims that the scene set in a Middle-Eastern palace, complete with underground lair containing piles of gold, is an example of some kind of Orientalist exotification.