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Review | Tuesday 21 September 2010

The House in the Night: Susan Swanson and Beth Krommes

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.

The House In The Night →

Susan Marie Swanson and Beth Krommes

$24.95

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