If You Lived Here by Giles Lavoche Publisher: Huashan Literature and Art Publishing House

Introduction
Children's Architecture Science Picture Book "Can Be Called a Work of Art"
Every time you turn a page, it's a new world
The exquisite and magnificent relief paper-cut collage takes you into houses around the world to explore their lives and secrets.
◎ Editor's Recommendation
☆ This popular science picture book, which can be called a work of art, uses exquisite and magnificent hand-made collages to show the richly detailed and magnificent relief buildings.
☆ Open this book, walk into 16 wonderful houses around the world, listen to the secrets of each house, and imagine the life you will experience: being neighbors with squirrels, rowing to school, traveling around the world in an RV, and seeing the sunrise and sunset from the same window in one day...
☆ Understand architectural structures, appreciate paper relief art, and cultivate children's understanding, imagination and love of the world.
◎ Introduction
If you live in a floating palace in Venice, you have to row a boat to get to school;
If you live in an RV, you can travel anywhere and anytime.
If you live in a cabin built in a tree, squirrels are your neighbors;
If you live in a floating house in the Netherlands, you can rotate your house and watch the sunrise and sunset from the same window;
If you live in a shepherd's hut covered with thick snow, you won't feel cold in winter...
This book tells about various houses around the world, the people who live in them, and the interesting lives they have had or are experiencing.
Gilles Lavoche uses relief paper-cutting art, and through multiple steps such as hand-painting, collage, and coloring, he presents an exquisite and magnificent art world. Each picture itself is a delicate work of art.
◎ Media Recommendation
Each house is a collage of relief cutouts, hand-painted, cut, painted and pasted together. The book was inspired by Mr. Lavosh traveling around the world with his sketchbook or making collages with children in school.
It is fascinating. Lavoche has the rigor of an architect and the vision to discover something magnificent. Every page is actually a world.
——Publishers Weekly
This art needs to be admired long and carefully, it is truly awe-inspiring.
— Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Author:
Giles Lavoche was born in the United States. As long as he could remember, he had been drawing, drawing the town, mountains, farmhouses and mills where he grew up. As a child, he loved reading maps and books about distant places. He knew then that when he grew up, he would travel, write and draw to many places, and people would read his works about distant places.
Whether exploring Europe or hiking in New England, Gilles Lavoche always carries a sketchbook with him. And sketching is just the first step in creating what he calls "truly awe-inspiring, sophisticated collages." Each of his works goes through multiple stages of sketching, cutting, painting, and collage, and he calls his art "paper relief."
Gilles Lavoche’s creative philosophy is “Art for children.”
Translator:
Wang Yue: Master of Children's Literature from Beijing Normal University, PhD in East Asian Studies from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His research direction is the retelling of traditional stories in contemporary Chinese fantasy literature. He has published fairy tales and fantasy novels in magazines such as Children's Literature and Flying Fantasy World.