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March 1, 2019/in Picture Book 5-8 Infant/Junior /by Ellie
BfK Rating:
BfK 235 March 2019
Reviewer: Ferelith Hordon
ISBN: 978-1408357392
Price: £6.99
Publisher: Orchard Books
Genre: Picture Book
Age Range: 5-8 Infant/Junior
Length: 48pp
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Hello Lighthouse

Author: Sophie Blackall

Hello…hello…hello… The light from the lighthouse shines across the sea, greeting ships and sailors. Making sure all know it is there. But a lighthouse needs to be looked after. Who does that? What would life be like in a lighthouse? In summer it could be nice; what about winter or when it is foggy? In this picture book by American illustrator, Sophie Blackall, we are introduced to the life of the lighthouse keeper aimed at a young readership. Here are no technical details; the setting is domestic and we watch the keeper going about his tasks through round porthole-like windows on the page. The colour palette is aqueous – the sea is everywhere, perspectives vertiginous as we scurry up and down the stairs. There is a gentle rhythm to the text as we follow the round of seasons – the excitement of a storm (waves reminiscent of a Japanese print), the cold of a frozen sea (this is an American lighthouse), the repeated ‘Hello’, then finally, the goodbye, as the lighthouse mechanism is automated.

This is an enjoyable introduction to a lighthouse that could be just that, a picture book opening the door to this world, raising a question or two but no more. However the author-illustrator includes an afterword expanding the text, adding further facts and amusing anecdotes which add a bit more substance to the whole and extending its potential.

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