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The House in the Night Board Book
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The House in the Night Board Book Board books - 2011

by Susan Marie Swanson; Beth Krommes (Illustrator)

A Caldecott Medal-winning bedtime classic is available in a board book edition for the first time. Swanson's elegant prose and Krommes's spectacular illustrations open up a nighttime world where ordinary objects become beautifully illuminated. Full color.

Summary

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 nighttime 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 nighttime 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.

Details

  • Title The House in the Night Board Book
  • Author Susan Marie Swanson; Beth Krommes (Illustrator)
  • Binding Board Books
  • Edition Brdbk
  • Pages 36
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Clarion Books, Boston, MA
  • Date 2011-10-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780547577692 / 0547577699
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.4 x 6.7 x 1 in (18.80 x 17.02 x 2.54 cm)
  • Ages 00 to 03 years
  • Grade levels P - P
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Dwellings, Night
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011534108
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

Excerpt

Here is the key to the house In the house burns a light In that light rests a bed On that bed waits a book . . .

Media reviews

"Krommes’s widening perspective manages to exude both comfort and daring." -- New York Times Book Review
 
"Here the art is spectacular. Executed in scratchboard decorated in droplets of gold, Krommes’ illustrations expand on Swanson’s reassuring story (inspired by a nursury rhyme that begins, “This is the key of the kingdom”) to create a world as cozy inside a house as it is majestic outside."--Booklist, starred review
 
"Inspired by traditional cumulative poetry, Swanson weaves a soothing song that is as luminescent and soulful as the gorgeous illustrations that accompany her words. . . . It is a masterpiece that has all the hallmarks of a classic that will be loved for generations to come."--School Library Journal, starred review
 
"Krommes’s breathtaking scratchboard illustrations, in black and white with accents of yellow and gold, embody and enhance the text’s message that light and dark, like comfort and mystery, are not mutually exclusive, but integral parts of each other."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
 
"This volume's artful simplicity, homely wisdom and quiet tone demonstrate the interconnected beauty and order of the world in a way that both children and adults will treasure."--Publishers Weekly, starred review
 
"...in another standout performance by an illustrator, Beth Krommes makes a case for The House in the Night with scratchboard images that are themselves a throwback, but with a welcome kind of familiarity... I can see a night-skittish child taking comfort in this story at bedtime."-- The Washington Post (online)
 
"[A] book of stunning visual simplicity . . . The pictures themselves seem to reach out from domesticity toward infinity."--Liz Rosenberg, Boston Sunday Globe
 
"It's Wanda Gag meets Virginia Lee Burton.  And gorgeous.  Did I mention gorgeous?  Gorgeous."-- Fuse 8 Production (online), by Betsy Bird
 
"[Swanson] has a lyrical style all her own, complemented by Krommes' starkly stunning scratchpaper drawings."-- StarTribune

About the author

Susan Marie Swanson is an award-winning poet and the author of several children's books. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Beth Krommes is the illustrator of several award-winning books. She lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire, with her family.

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