# What House Shall I Build Today? - Source: StoryWeaver (storyweaver.org.in), CC BY, Pratham Books, StoryWeaver, CC BY 4.0 - Reading level: Grades 3 and 4 - Subjects: Places, Arts and Culture - Topics: house, build, shall, today, bamboo, tall - Length: 120 words, about 1 min - By: Shweta Ganesh Kumar - Original: - Page: - Open in Sprouts: What house shall I build today? A Toda hut with bamboo walls and a granite door? A bhunga house made of mud? A Kashmiri house with a wooden zoon dub balcony to stand in and wave at the moon from? A kettuvallam with wooden planks to float on the water? A Naga hut with roofs of tall wild grass? How about a Jaisalmer haveli of sandstone? What house shall I build today? A Nicobar house standing tall on bamboo stilts? Or a Ladakhi stone-and-brick house with a willow twig roof? A house powered by energy from the Sun? Or a city skyscraper made of cement blocks and mortar? What house shall I build today? Will you come visit me there? ## Picture credits - Shubhshree Mathur, CC BY 4.0 () - Shubhshree Mathur, CC BY 4.0 () - Shubhshree Mathur, CC BY 4.0 () - Shubhshree Mathur, CC BY 4.0 () - Shubhshree Mathur, CC BY 4.0 () - Shubhshree Mathur, CC BY 4.0 () - Shubhshree Mathur, CC BY 4.0 () - Shubhshree Mathur, CC BY 4.0 () - Shubhshree Mathur, CC BY 4.0 () - Shubhshree Mathur, CC BY 4.0 () - Shubhshree Mathur, CC BY 4.0 () - Shubhshree Mathur, CC BY 4.0 ()