Irresistible Henry House / Lisa Grunwald 412 p.

I didn't love this book, but I liked it very much. Henry is an orphan set to spend the first 2 years of his life in the 'practice house', a university facility that exists to teach young women home economics skills, including child rearing. It follows a pretty standard coming-of-age story arc through the 1950s and 1960s. I liked the unusual settings - Henry has artistic talent which takes him to the Disney studios to work as an in-betweener (a type of animator) on the film Mary Poppins, and to London for the making of Yellow Submarine.