THE HOUSE IN THE MAIL

Rosemary Wells, Tom Wells, , illus. by Dan Andreasen. . Puffin, $6.99 (48pp) ISBN 978-0-14-240061-6

In what PW called an "exuberant" volume, narrated by a 12-year-old girl and arranged to resemble a scrapbook, Rosemary Wells and her late husband, an architect, "charmingly detail" the construction of a house built from a kit ordered from the Sears, Roebuck catalogue in 1928. Ages 6-up. (Mar.)

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