The House in the Night board book (Board Book)
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...
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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.
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Format: board book
ISBN:
9780547577692 (0547577699)
ASIN: 547577699
Publish date: October 4th 2011
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 36
Edition language: English
This was a much bigger hit with me than it was with my kids. They were desperate to know why everything was so dark. Me, I loved the illustrations, and I enjoyed the story. The 4 stars are for me; the kids could take it or leave it.
This seems like it would be perfect for lulling small children to sleep.
Illustrations remind me of Goodnight, Moon, simple story with a lot of repetition. Quick read.
The House in the Night is an interesting book--I'm not really sure how to rate it. My niece and nephew did enjoy the pictures in this one, and a breathless "Wow," even escaped from my niece when we got to the last page in the book. She thought the pictures were beautiful and impactful, and I think...
This 2009 Caldecott Medal winner really is a classic in the making and my real regret is that this wasn't around when my daughter was a baby! This book is a sophisticated alternative to Goodnight Moon - good news for all you haters out there ;-) I've never encountered anything like the illustration...