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Book – The House in the Night

 Winner: Caldecott Medal 

by Susan Marie Swanson, Illustrated by Beth Krommes

From the Reviews

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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