Susan Marie Swanson

• Mar-1998
• / General Fiction
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A colorful picture book contrasts Rosie's warm-toned summer memories at the lake with her present cool, winter wonderland, and the connection between the two worlds is a house-shaped stone that she brought home last summer from the lake....

• May-2002
• / General Fiction
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When I was born,
the first thing my mama told me
was my name.
Lucy remembers lots of things about her name. When she was two, Uncle David painted it on her step stool. When she was three, she scribbled it on the floor with an orange crayon. ...

• Apr-2008
• / General Fiction
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Within every tiny seed lies the secret of what's to come. First a shoot, then a stem, a leaf, a bud--and finally a brilliant sunflower reaching high for the sun. Join a young girl as she waters and watches, celebrating the everyday miracles of grow...

• May-2008
• / General Fiction
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2009 Caldecott Medal Winner

A spare, patterned text and glowing pictures explore the origins of light that make a house a home in this Caldecott Medal-winning bedtime book for young children. Naming nighttime things that are both ...

• Oct-2011
• / General Fiction
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Susan Marie Swanson’s elegant prose and Beth Krommes’s spectacular illustrations open up a nighttime world where ordinary objects become beautifully illuminated. Images of a key, a toy, a bear, and a book leap from the pages as we’re reminded t...