Book List: Picture Books about Moving House

Moving house is one of the biggest changes in a child's life. This change can create many different emotions; excitement, sadness, fear and trepidation. Through picture books readers will discover children; worried about not liking their new house or bedroom, having to make new friends, fearful of going to a new school, missing their garden, getting a new dog, whose favourite toy doesn't want to move and comparing their new home to their old home. Ultimately the children in these stories accept their new home, they resolve their feelings and some do so in the most interesting ways.

Through the Gate by Sally Fawcett, EK Books, $24.99, 9781925335415, ages 5 - 8, KBR Review

Florette by Anna Walker, Penguin Books, $24.99, 9780670079414, ages 3 - 8, KBR Review

Clancy and Millie and the Very Fine House by Libby Gleeson and Freya Blackwood, Hardie Grant Egmont, $14.99, 9781760126681, ages 3 - 7, KBR Review

Two Rainbows by Sophie Masson and Michael McMahon, Little Hare Books, $24.99, 9781760127794, ages 2 - 8, KBR Review

Neville by Norton Juster and G. Brian Karas, Random House, $35.99, 9780375867651,
ages 4 - 7

Tim's Big Move by Anke Wager and Eva Eriksson, North-South Books, $24.99, 9780735840904, ages 4 - 8

Lenny and Lucy by Philip C. Stead and Erin E.Stead, Allen & Unwin, $24.99, 9781730292119, ages 4 - 8

Toby by Hazel Mitchell, Candlewick Books, $24.99, 9780763680930, ages 4 - 7