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''The Story of Your Home'' is a non-fiction book for children about domestic architecture and domestic life in Great Britain from cave dwellings to blocks of flats. It was written by Agnes Allen, illustrated by the author and her husband Jack, and published by Faber in 1949. Agnes Allen won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.〔 ''The Story of Your Home'' was one of several sequels to ''The Story of the Village'' (Faber, 1947), by Agnes Allen alone.〔 . Retrieved 2012-07-23.〕 == Origins == Agnes Allen attributes the inspiration for this book to her young son's curiosity about the old Elizabethan houses in the Oxfordshire village where they lived in the summer of 1943. She realized "that thousands of children, like himself, were growing up in brick-built houses in which one turned a tap if one needed water, pressed a switch to flood a room with light, struck a match if one wanted to light a fire." Because of this, she conceived the idea of a children's book that would "describe the ordinary homes of ordinary people at different periods, right back to the days when almost everything that made up the home, including the very house itself, was there only as a result of the personal exertions of the men and woman who made up the household." 〔 The period in which this book was published has been described as the great age of the non-fictional series. These series, sometimes by a single author, sometimes by multiple authors under a general banner, were produced by publishers with an eye to selling particularly to schools and libraries.〔Marcus Crouch, ''Treasure Seekers and Borrowers: Children's books in Britain 1900-1960'', Library Association, 1963, p. 109.〕 Accounts of British social history were particularly in tune with the national regeneration of the post-war years. The dust jacket of ''The Story of Your Home'' addressed the school market directly, saying: "It is especially suitable for the upper forms of a Secondary Modern School, where it could be used as a History or Social Studies reading book, as a model and reference book for project work, and as a general reference or library book."〔''The Story of Your Home'', 1949, inner jacket flap.〕 Agnes Allen's Story series began with ''The Story of the Village'' in 1947. She wrote a number of other books in this series, mainly about social history and art. They included ''The Story of Our Parliament'' (1949), ''The Story of the Highway'' (1950) and ''The Story of Clothes'' (1955). Her four-book series entitled ''Living in History'' took a comprehensive approach to particular eras rather than looking at one aspect throughout the ages.〔("Agnes Allen" ) (directory). Open Library.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Story of Your Home」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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