Plot Summary - This book is simplistic and uses words that young children can relate to about being at home. This book makes home appear to cozy and warm with all of the glowing pictures.
Personal Reaction - This is a wonderful bedtime story. It put me in the mind of Goodnight Moon but with less verse. My children loved reading this story. It gives a nice warm meaning to home that some children may not experience.
Memorable Literary Element - This story is written in poetry verse. The verse flows easily and is easy for young students to understand.
Illustrations - Beth Krommes uses scratchboard and watercolor to create images full of movement and character. The scratchboard technique gives the pages a lot of texture and contrasting shadows which emphasizes the theme of dark and light. The images glow on the dark pages.
Review - "Here the art is spectacular. Executed in scratchboard decorated in droplets of gold, Krommes’ illustrations expand on Swanson’s reassuring story (inspired by a nursury rhyme that begins, “This is the key of the kingdom”) to create a world as cozy inside a house as it is majestic outside."--Booklist, starred review
Promotion - I would use this book to prompt the students to think about their own home and view of the world. We could describe what is in our home, then around our home, then our furthest sense of what we know. The illustrations are also very rural so I think it would appeal to students in East Tennessee.
Personal Reaction - This is a wonderful bedtime story. It put me in the mind of Goodnight Moon but with less verse. My children loved reading this story. It gives a nice warm meaning to home that some children may not experience.
Memorable Literary Element - This story is written in poetry verse. The verse flows easily and is easy for young students to understand.
Illustrations - Beth Krommes uses scratchboard and watercolor to create images full of movement and character. The scratchboard technique gives the pages a lot of texture and contrasting shadows which emphasizes the theme of dark and light. The images glow on the dark pages.
Review - "Here the art is spectacular. Executed in scratchboard decorated in droplets of gold, Krommes’ illustrations expand on Swanson’s reassuring story (inspired by a nursury rhyme that begins, “This is the key of the kingdom”) to create a world as cozy inside a house as it is majestic outside."--Booklist, starred review
Promotion - I would use this book to prompt the students to think about their own home and view of the world. We could describe what is in our home, then around our home, then our furthest sense of what we know. The illustrations are also very rural so I think it would appeal to students in East Tennessee.