Title: The House in the Night

Author: Susan Marie Swanson

Illustrator: Beth Krommes

Copyright date: 2008

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company

Summary: The House in the Night shows many things that create the feeling of home. It uses the light to indicate the important and special objects in each area of the house. This is a story about what home feels like and how this feeling is similar to the feeling of light.

Media for illustration: Scratchboard and watercolor

Perfect student: This book is perfect for early readers and ESL students. The themes in the book are easy to understand and fairly universal, and the language used is short and easy.

Common Core State Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.7 Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas. This standard is for first grade, but I believe there are similar standards in other elementary grades as well and probably even higher grades. This standard works well with this book because the illustrations are award-winning.