Uma Wimple Charts Her House

Larsen, Reif

Hip, funny, unique—and a perfect curriculum tie-in—here’s a picture book with mega kid-appeal about the challenges a student faces when she is given an assignment to make a chart of her own home!

Uma’s been making charts since she was a little kid. But when her teacher gives the class Uma’s dream assignment—to make a chart of their own homes—she is thrown for a loop. Oh, the possibilities! Oh, the pressure! What makes a house housey? she wonders. In order to figure it out, she asks each member of her family—Mom, Dad, and brothers Rex, Bram, and Lukey. But it’s not until she has a meltdown and Lukey comforts her that Uma figures out the secret to her chart—and her family. It’s the love that is shared inside a house’s walls.

Told in first-person and featuring engaging graphic artwork, this fun and lively picture book—perfect for classroom use—is a reminder that someone’s true home is not a place, but rather the people with whom you surround yourself.