Author: Susan Marie Swanson
Title: The House in the Night
Illustrator: Beth Krommes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Year: 2009
Genre: Caldecott
Format: Hardcover
Reading Level: Assisted, emergent reader
Interest level: Pre-k, early elementary
Topics: adventure, key, bird
Summary: The story depicts an adventure of a bird that guides a little girl through the night sky while looking at the rolling meadows and dark, open and starry sky. "In the house, burns a light. In the light, rests a bed. One that bed, waits a book."
Extension Activity: Have the kids draw a picture on a piece of paper with crayon and then have them paint over it in black water color paint to make their own night sky.
