JONATHAN BEAN received an M.F.A. from New York's School of Visual Arts and now lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A two-time winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, for At Night and Building Our House, he is also the illustrator of Big Snow, two picture books by Lauren Thompson, and Bad Bye, Good Bye by Deborah Underwood.

"This is no ordinary back-to-school tale." --USA Today

"A great choice for emerging readers, and the strong sense of place, anchoring the school experience to a family's beloved home while also opening it up to embrace the wider world, will resonate with young children just beginning to navigate the home/school divide." --School Library Journal, starred review

"Homeschooling families rejoice! This warm, uplifting, and hilarious book will delight kids who wonder if other families live just like they do. My family laughed, nodded, and smiled all the way through--from the first illustration to the last. Sure to become a classic on homeschoolers' bookshelves all over the world." --Sarah Mackenzie, Creator, Read-Aloud Revival and author of Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace

"Warmhearted . . . Capture[s] the coziness as well as the frenetic pace of the homeschooling day." --The Horn Book

"The family from Building Our House returns, but this time their son tells readers all about life as a home-schooled kid . . . Home sweet school." --Kirkus Reviews

"Humorous and informative . . . Bean's scribbly pen-and-ink style is perfectly suited for the liveliness of a home in which the living room is both a place to relax and a classroom, the kitchen is the cafeteria, and the family car is also the school bus." --Publishers Weekly

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)

Pub date: 2015-10-27

Length: 48 pages