The House that Jack Built Amy Jean Porter consider them too big

consider them too big

an intriguing tale of two bachelors

‘A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration’ Sunday Times

Constructed from Coppola's personal collection of photographs and ephemera

The House that Jack Built Amy Jean Porter consider them too bigThis 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