Welcome to my Home is a charming picture book about being tidy. In the story, a little boy shrinks and befriends a bee. He learns from the bees why it’s important to work hard, and to be tidy.
This picture book is perfect for early readers, to keep them interested while learning new words to further progress their vocabulary.
Written by Yan Li, Illustrated by Louli El CHayal
Sample Text from Welcome to my Home – A picture book about being tidy
“One, two, three,” Tom said, as he counted the flies in his bedroom.
“Tom, don’t eat food in your room, please,” his mom put her hands on her hips and tried not to lose her temper. “I’ve told you tons of times! You always leave your bedroom in such a mess; you should clean it up!”
Tom looked around his room.
His stuff was scattered everywhere, from the bed right to the door.
A few stray white bread crumbs lay on the floor.
It wasn’t a bedroom to be proud of.
Tom didn’t care what his room looked like though.
<End of page 2 of Welcome to my home>
Approximate reading time – 15-20 minutes, 34 pages of text.
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About the Author – Yan Li
The author Yan Li always loves to write about humans beings and nature. Opening up nature to our children has many benefits. Embracing nature can show children the inner workings of life, and bring understanding and concern for our environment.
Children can also learn about love, friendship, self-sacrifice, and tolerance, and appreciate small things from exploring nature. In social insect colonies, worker bees devote their whole lives to work as gardeners and protect their hives and larva. Beetles have the greatest physical strength and act as the cleaners for nature.
Because Yan Li’ s book is written in two languages, English and Chinese, it is also a great choice for the language-learners. Her other books for children in- clude: If a bird can’t fly, The small world, Let’s sing you home, I’m the night king, Tree of life and What’s the best costume.
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This book has lots of animals, and the animals were respecting the boy. I like this book
where can I download audio book of ” welcome to my home”?
I’m sorry we don’t have an audio for this yet.
Hi
Is there an email address to reach on?
Thanks
you can reach me – danielle at redskyventures dot org
This book is really good and I would give it full marks 10/10
it was very good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cant seem to read it. The program isnt working.
Sometimes it’s the internet speed that book is quite large, hope you have better luck soon
A VERY GOOD BOOK. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!
also, I like this book because it makes me feel a lot happier
I want to know the girl named Nhat where are you from I am a fan of Korean, Japan, and Chinese
I liked it because it was very fun. I love this website
Yes, i read this to my grandson and he said he loved it. He loves bees and just about every insect that there is.
I LOVED THIS BOOK BECAUSE IT TALKED ABOUT NATURE AND BEES AND THE BEES ARE SO CUTE AND NICE.
i loved this book but maybe a lot shorter i coudnt read it because it was so long but sorry
I want to improve my English speaking.