The House In The Night-By: Susan Marie Swanson; Illustrated By:Beth Krommes

I thought this book was alright. It was really detailed. It was about a little girls night time routine about nighttime things that are both comforting and intriguing, such as keys, light, sun, moon, books, birds, song, etc. It was very poetic and all the sentence were connected or related to one another like, "Here is a key to the house. In the house burns a light." It was a very short and easy book to read. It kind of let your imagination wonder because the pictures were very detailed but they didn't give all the answers. The little girl, the main character was riding on a bird, but you didn't know where they were going, so it still left a lot of mystery and room for you to think what you wanted. The illustrations used three colors: black, white and yellow. Yellow was used to highlight certain items in the picture such as the important or comforting things that helped the girl go to bed. I looked the illustrations because they were so simply but yet they were so good and detailed. They made your eyes just wonder all over the page. You could notice something new each time you read the book. I don't think the story was very strong but the illustrations definitely improved the book greatly. It reminded me a lot of the book "Good Night Moon" how it was so quiet, soothing and relaxing to read. My mom would read that book to me every night before I went to bed. I think this book relates to a lot of middle class kids because the character had a lot of nice things in her room like a violin, a lot of books, pictures, globe, furniture, and a house with a mom and a dad. It reminded me of something very middle class. I think poor or lower class students might have a little trouble relating to some of the parts of the story, especially the illustrations since they were so detailed and there were so many things that made up the little girls room that wouldn't be in a low income house. The story in the book said nothing about any characters but it was easy to read the illustrations and pick up on the girls life.