The 2009 Caldecott Medal winner is The House in the Night, illustrated by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie Swanson (Houghton Mifflin Company)
The illustrator, Beth Krommes, was born in 1956 in Emmaus, PA. She received a received a BFA degree in painting from Syracuse University and a MAT in art education from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
She became interested in wood engraving in 1982. The House in the Night is full of richly detailed black-and white scratchboard illustrations illuminated with touches of golden watercolor.
Krommes currently lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire with her husband and two daughters.
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. The award has been given since 1939.
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