PICTURE BOOK - Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall

Illustrated by the author

2018 Little Brown & Co.

HC & price40 pgs.- the last one folds out

Goodreads rating:  4.44 - 648 ratings

My rating:  5

Endpapers: front:  photos and writing on beige; Back:  "About Lighthouses"

1^st line/s:
"On the highest of a tiny island
at the edge of the world stands a lighthouse.
It is built to last forever.
Sending its light out to sea,
guiding the ships on their way."

My comments:  I enjoyed reading and admiring this book three times before I closed it.  It's a lovely story about a keeper, and then his family, that inhabited a lighthouse through the seasons for a number of years.  And this lighthouse was on a rock, with no yard or walkway, totally surrounded by the sea!  Sigh.  A lovely book.

Goodreads:  A new picture book that will transport readers to the seaside.
Watch the days and seasons pass as the wind blows, the fog rolls in, and icebergs drift by. Outside, there is water all around. Inside, the daily life of a lighthouse keeper and his family unfolds as the keeper boils water for tea, lights the lamp's wick, and writes every detail in his logbook.

The Bravest Woman in America – Marissa Moss

Illustrated by Andrea U’Ren

Tricycle Press, 2011

32 pages

Rating:  4

Endpapers:  azure

Title page:  Oval of Ida rowing

Illustrations:  cover the entire page – no white – they’re bright, detailed, wonderful.

Alliteration:  “Ida loved the sea.  She loved it when it was calm and coppery in the sunlight.”

Similes:  “She loved it when it was wild with froth like a herd of stampeding horses.”

Incredible description:  “She loved the crash of the waves, the screech of gulls wheeling overhead, the bite of salt in her nose as she breathed in the ocean air.”

Snazzy verbs:  perched, lurched, shinnied, churned

Metaphor:  “bubble of trimph

This picture book is based on the story of Ida Lewis (1842-1911), the Newport, Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who rescued over 18 people during her tenure.