A review by waterviolite
A House That Once Was by Julie Fogliano

3.0

Stumbling on a deserted house, the characters wonder who used to live there. This book is sweet, but I found the sponge-painted illustrations to overwhelm the words at the beginning and end of the story. I feel it would make more sense if the sponge-painted illustrations were used to represent the children's imagination and the more realistic style from the middle to the story was used to show what was really happening in the outside world.