The House in the Night
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By: Susan Marie Swanson
Illustrated by: Beth Krommes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Copyright Date: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-618-86244-3
Genre: Fiction Format: Picture Book
Major Awards Received:
Minnesota Book Awards, 2009 Winner Children’s Literature United States
Parents' Choice Award, 2008 Approved Picture Books United States
Randolph Caldecott Medal, 2009 Winner United States
Summary: This book takes your through the imagination of a child that falls asleep while reading a book. This is when the adventure begins. The pattern of words in the book is what will have children reading this book over and over again.
Personal response: This book tells the story of where this little girl goes when she fall asleep while reading a book. The black, white and yellow illustrations are spectacular. Reading the Author's note, she was inspired by many other nursery rhyme collections like, "Hush, little baby" and "This is the house that Jack built".
Classroom connections: Because of the repetition of the text I thought this would be a great book for students to use for word recognition. Having the students recite:
"Through the dark glows the moon.
On the moon's face shines the sun.
Sun in the moon,
moon in the dark,
dark in the song,
song in the bird,
bird in the book,
book on the bed..." , will help them be able to associate the word with the written text.
The text itself is simple enough for a beginning reader to understand, and young children learning new words will enjoy the repetition of the common objects presented in the book.
I would show the students the illustrators website at http://www.bethkrommes.com/wood-engraving, so they can see how she was able to illustrate this book and many others. ESL students would enjoy this book because of the pictures and they way it is illustrated is different from a lot of the other books they have read. I would use this book to predict what is happening in the story with the ESL students.
Illustrated by: Beth Krommes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Copyright Date: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-618-86244-3
Genre: Fiction Format: Picture Book
Major Awards Received:
Minnesota Book Awards, 2009 Winner Children’s Literature United States
Parents' Choice Award, 2008 Approved Picture Books United States
Randolph Caldecott Medal, 2009 Winner United States
Summary: This book takes your through the imagination of a child that falls asleep while reading a book. This is when the adventure begins. The pattern of words in the book is what will have children reading this book over and over again.
Personal response: This book tells the story of where this little girl goes when she fall asleep while reading a book. The black, white and yellow illustrations are spectacular. Reading the Author's note, she was inspired by many other nursery rhyme collections like, "Hush, little baby" and "This is the house that Jack built".
Classroom connections: Because of the repetition of the text I thought this would be a great book for students to use for word recognition. Having the students recite:
"Through the dark glows the moon.
On the moon's face shines the sun.
Sun in the moon,
moon in the dark,
dark in the song,
song in the bird,
bird in the book,
book on the bed..." , will help them be able to associate the word with the written text.
The text itself is simple enough for a beginning reader to understand, and young children learning new words will enjoy the repetition of the common objects presented in the book.
I would show the students the illustrators website at http://www.bethkrommes.com/wood-engraving, so they can see how she was able to illustrate this book and many others. ESL students would enjoy this book because of the pictures and they way it is illustrated is different from a lot of the other books they have read. I would use this book to predict what is happening in the story with the ESL students.