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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...

Naming nighttime things that are both comforting and intriguing—a key, a bed, a book, a light, the moon—this timeless good night book illuminates a reassuring order to the universe.

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Susan Marie Swanson

Susan Marie Swanson

1955 -
American
Susan Marie Swanson is an award-winning poet and the author of many books, including The First Thing My Mama Told Me, a Charlotte Zolotow ... See more
Beth Krommes

Beth Krommes

Beth Krommes received the Caldecott Medal in 2009 for The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson. She has illustrated a number of other... See more

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The House in the Night
Krommes’s breathtaking scratchboard illustrations, in black and white with accents of yellow and gold, embody and enhance...

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