Publication Party for The House in the Night and To Be Like the SunPoet. Author Susan Marie Swanson's first published piece was a poem about snowflakes that appeared in the weekly town newspaper when she was ten years old. Although she is grown up now and lives in the city of Saint Paul, she still writes poems. Today you'll have the opportunity to hear her read from her new poetry picture books. In The House in the Night, a key, a bed, and the moon are a few of the things that offer reassurance about night and the comfort of home. Daytime things and growing things are celebrated in To Be Like the Sun when a young girl waters and watches her garden to see what will appear. First there's a shoot, then a stem, a leaf, a bud – and finally a brilliant sunflower reaching high for the sun. At the party today, you will plant some seeds to take home and watch grow.