Britannica's 5-Minute Really True Stories for Family Time

Britannica's 5-Minute Really True Stories for Family Time — page 5
No Place Like Home Home is different for everyone It can be a brick house standing in a row a mobile home or a bungalow Home can be on a farm or floating on a canal It can be in a tent a treehouse or even underground There are billions of homes around the world with families gathered inside Shall we visit a few First stop an apartment building Concrete apartment buildings were first built by the ancient Romans They needed to build homes upward and make room for more people to live in the same space Today tall apartment buildings are found all over the world They come in many shapes sizes and colors Some have balconies for hanging out the laundry potting plants or just relaxing Others have courtyards where people can sit and chat with neighbors and children can play One huge complex of five apartment buildings in Hong Kong is called the Monster Building It contains 2,243 homes 6