House in the Night
Susan Marie Swanson
House in the Night
Susan Marie Swanson
A Caldecott Medal winning bedtime classic, available in a board book edition for the first time. Susan Marie Swanson’s elegant prose and Beth Krommes’s spectacular illustrations open up a night time world where ordinary objects become beautifully illuminated. Images of a key, a toy, a bear, and a book leap from the pages as we’re reminded that even when night arrives, the sun’s warm light never truly leaves us.
A spare, patterned text and glowing pictures explore the origins of light that make a house a home in this bedtime book for young children. Naming night time things that are both comforting and intriguing to preschoolers-a key, a bed, the moon-this timeless book illuminates a reassuring order to the universe. AWARDS 2009 – Caldecott Honor Book 2008 – Parents’ Choice Recommended Title AGE: 3 - 6 years Preschool - 1st class AUTHOR: Susan Marie Swanson is an award-winning poet and the author of many books, including ‘The First Thing My Mama Told Me’, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book and New York Times Best Illustrated Book. For more than twenty years she has been writing poetry with children through COMPAS Writers and Artists in the Schools and the summer arts program at St. Paul Academy. She looks at the moon through the branches of the old oak trees that surround the yellow house where she lives. Beth Krommes is the illustrator of several award-winning books, including ‘The Lamp, the Ice, and a Boat Called Fish; winner of the Golden Kite Award for illustration and a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book.
Review
Alexa Dretzke, Readings Hawthorn
This is as close to perfect as a picture book can get. Text and woodcut illustrations combine to create a superb artwork. We see the enchanting power of four imaginations becoming one: the author, the illustrator, the child in the book who reads, and you, the reader. The child reading in bed is transported by the book and we join him/her on a journey. We feel the comforting, enveloping warmth of home, and freedom to fly to the sun and the moon. A book within a book, where it begins it also ends, and in-between there is a whole other, tantalising world.
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