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  • Published: 11 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9780593110898
  • Imprint: Putnam
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 48
  • RRP: $34.99

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From Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña and bestselling illustrator Loren Long, the powerhouse duo behind the #1 New York Times bestseller Love, comes a moving meditation on the places we feel most comfortable, loved, and protected—wherever that might be.

From a Newbery Medal-winning author and a bestselling illustrator, the powerhouse duo behind the #1 New York Times bestseller Love, comes a deeply moving ode to the places we feel safe, loved, and true to ourselves—wherever they might be.

*”Beckons readers from the first page . . . Simply divine.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Home is a tired lullaby
and a late-night traffic that mumbles in
through a crack in your curtains.

Home is the faint trumpet of a distant barge
as your grandfather casts his line
from the edge of his houseboat.

So begins this stirring celebration of home in its many forms. For home is an idea more profound than the walls we build up around ourselves. It’s the family that shows its love through small gestures every day. It’s the community that sees one another through hard times. And it’s the wonder of the natural world, a refuge we share with every living thing on Earth.

With lyrical text and expressive artwork, Matt de la Peña and Loren Long’s meditation on the universal pull of home, whatever its form, is destined to become a new classic that will be cherished by readers of every age.

Don't miss the Spanish-language edition of this book, Hogar.

  • Published: 11 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9780593110898
  • Imprint: Putnam
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 48
  • RRP: $34.99

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Praise for Home

Praise for Love:
#1 New York Times Bestseller
#1 Indie Bestseller
Five Starred Reviews
A Time Magazine Best Children’s Book of the Year
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

"Accompanied by Loren Long’s charming illustrations, this book . . . celebrates how love exists in the ordinary and why we should treasure moments, big and small, with the people in our lives."—Time magazine

"[A] poetic reckoning of the importance of love in a child's life . . . eloquent and moving."—People magazine