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tarred Review A young girl is given a golden key to a house. “In the house burns a light. In that light rests a bed. On that bed waits a book.” And so continues this simple text, which describes sometimes fantastical pleasures as a bird from the book spirits the child through the starry sky to a wise-faced moon. The cumulative tale is a familiar picture-book conceit; the difference in success comes from the artwork. Here, the art is spectacular. Executed in scratchboard decorated in droplets of gold, Krommes’ illustrations expand on Swanson’s reassuring story (inspired by a nursery rhyme that begins, “This is the key of the kingdom”) to create a world as cozy inside the house as it is majestic outside. The two-page spread depicting rolling meadows beyond the home, dotted with trees, houses, barns, and road meeting the inky sky, is mesmerizing. The use of gold is especially effective, coloring the stars and a knowing moon, all surrounded with black-and-white halos. A beautiful
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Beth Krommes is the illustrator of several award-winning books. She said that she first fell in love with meadows and the outdoors on childhood trips to her grandmother's house, surrounded by meadows, on the side of Sugarloaf Mountain in Pennsylvania. Now she draws and reads and dreams in a tall house among the pines and maples of Peterborough, New Hampshire, where she lives with her family.^Susan Marie Swanson is an award-winning poet of several children's books. She lives in Minnesota, where she often works in schools as a poet-in-residence.