The House in the Night: A Caldecott Award Winner

This Caldecott Medal-winning picture book gets children ready for bed with rhythmic text and glowing illustrations that explore the warmth and light that makes us feel at home.

"Here is the key to the house."

Inside the house are nighttime things both comforting and intriguing--a bed, many books--and outside, too, there are sources of light and joy--the moon, the sky--that reveal a reassuring order in the universe. This timeless bedtime tale takes readers through the house in the night, up into the sky, and back home again, all the while reminding us of the presence of love and wonder in our world.

Susan Marie Swanson's spare verse and Beth Kromme's astonishing illustrations intertwine to create a comforting, magical story to revisit again and again.

ISBN-13: 9780618862443

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Publication Date: 05-05-2008

Pages: 40

Product Dimensions: 10.20(w) x 7.98(h) x 0.40(d)

Age Range: 3 - 6 Years

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 Caldecott Winning illustrator of The House in the Night and other beautifully illustrated, much-acclaimed picture books like Swirl by Swirl, and Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow. She lives in Peterborough, NH. Visit her online at www.bethkrommes.com.

Read an 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 . . .