#1 The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson

The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson was a Caldecott Medal Award Winning Book in 2009. This particular book includes only three colors; black, white, and gold/yellow. After reading the book it appears to be written in a poem format. There are only a few words per page within this book. It starts with the following sentence, "Here is a key to the house." The story then proceeds to talk about the house, the sun, the moon, a bird's song, and much more.

I liked the way the book started off with the exchange of the key to the house and then as the book ends the house is brought into the book again. I was naturally drawn to this book because it is a Caldecott Award Winning book, but the illustrations were breath taking.