Title: The House In The Night (Caldecott Award Winner)
Author: Susan Marie Swanson
Illustrator: Beth Krommes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Year Published: 2008
Format: Hard Cover
Genre: Picture Book
Reading Level: Assisted Reader
Reading Interest Level: Pre-School-Elementary School
Topics: Light, and what “things” make up a home.
Summary: This bedtime book is mainly using the depiction of white and black illustrations with bright yellow coloring to certain objects to depict what a home is made of and what young children find “comforting” in a home.
Extension Activity: Since this book deals with simply black, white, and yellow, I would have the students draw their bedroom at night only making one object yellow that they find helps them sleep better, or one thing that they “comforts” them during the night time.
