The House that Jack Built Amy Jean Porter and their four children will

and their four children will fill the kitchen

An unexpected weeknight meal with a neighbor or a weekend dinner party with fifteen of your closest friends—either way and everywhere in between

consider them too big

richly informative

an intriguing tale of two bachelors

The House that Jack Built Amy Jean Porter and their four children willThis is the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. The House that Jack Built is a book with two strands. The main rhythmic text, based on the well known rhyme, tells the story of Jack Bull, who travels to New Zealand from London as a new settler in 1798. The detailed contemporary illustrations tell the story from a Maori perspectivebeginning with the myth of creation: Papatuanuku the earth