Overview
A child’s imagination takes flight in this charming and poignant picture book by the Booker-shortlisted author Mick Jackson and award-winning artist Rashin Kheiriyeh. Selected for the 2025 Bologna Ragazzi Award's Amazing Bookshelf. Wouldn’t moving house be magical, if your house could move with you? When a boy is told that they are moving house, he envisions his house lifted by cranes, winding its way through narrow streets, and even sailing across the sea… But his mother helps him understand: even if they must leave their house behind, the two of them will still be on an adventure.
Full Product Details
Author: Mick Jackson ,
Rashin Kheiriyeh
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Imprint: Walker Books Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 24.80cm
, Height: 0.60cm
, Length: 26.80cm
Weight: 0.200kg
ISBN: 9781529523379
ISBN 10: 1529523370
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 03 July 2025
Recommended Age: From 3 to 7 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Moving house can be hard to understand… This book does an important job in reassuring children who might be in the same position. Even though there are hundreds of books about managing stressful situations, We’re Moving House fills an important gap in the market. * The Bookseller * …ideas are playfully captured in RashinKheiriyeh’s detailed scenes… With the wealth of transportation imagined by the boy, youngsters with an interest in vehicles especially, will love the visuals, even if a house move isn’t imminent. * Books for Keeps * Helpful to any parent wanting to explain to small children about a move – especially as it ends on a really positive note. But also any child fascinated by cranes, boats, lorries and helicopters will have their imagination piqued. Mick Jackson, nominated for the Booker Prize for adult novel The Underground Man, can clearly write for small children too. * NewsChain *
Author Information
Mick Jackson is a writer from Lancashire, who now lives in Brighton. He studied drama and was a singer in a band, before enrolling on the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. His first novel, The Underground Man, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and won the Royal Society of Authors’ First Novel Award. He has since written three more novels, a novella and many picture books for children including The Red Sledge illustrated by Victoria Ball. Find Mick online at mickjackson.com and on Twitter as @mickwriter. Rashin Kheiriyeh was born in Iran and studied graphic design at the University of Tehran. She has previously worked for newspapers such as The New York Times and Le Monde Diplomatique, and has published over 45 books for children worldwide, including Eli and the Uncles by Jehan Madhani. In 2011, she won the Golden Apple at the Biennale of Illustration Bratislava. She currently lives in Washington, USA. Find her online at rashinart.com and on Instagram as @rashin.kheiriyeh.
