The House That Floated
By: Guojing
Genre: Children’s, Picture Book
Number of Pages: 40
Published: September 16, 2025
Publisher: Random House Studio
Dates Read: December 21, 2025
Format: Library Book / Hardcover

A wordless children’s picture book about saving a house on a cliff after the ocean’s water levels rise.

I haven’t read wordless children’s books too often, though I have read wordless, and nearly wordless graphic novels quite a few times. They are absolutely a different style of reading. There’s nothing really tying you to the characters except what’s happening in the scene around them.

As a kid, I think this would be the book I would have picked up and “read aloud”, inserting my own narrative and dialog, and then be proud of the story I just “read” to my parents.

Overall, beautiful and detailed snapshots of the story that doesn’t need any words to help move it along.