Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall

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Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall, cover showing a red and white lighthouse on a rock in a rough sea with the Caldecott Medal seal
Cutaway illustration of the lighthouse interior with the keeper arriving, beside a page about tending the light
The lighthouse beam cutting through a dark storm as tall waves rise and crash around it
The keeper writing in his logbook with the newborn baby in his lap while his wife rests under a quilt

Some books are shaped like the thing they are about, and this one is a tall narrow column you hold upright in your hands. Sophie Blackall follows a keeper through his whole working life at a lighthouse far out on a rock, arriving with a suitcase to replace the man before him, polishing the lens and trimming the wick, winding the clockwork that keeps the lamp turning all night, and writing every small thing down in the logbook. A wife comes out to join him. A baby is born. The fog rolls in, the icebergs drift past, and in the end the light is made automatic and the keepers go ashore for good. Blackall painted the interiors as round cutaway rooms, the way a child looks into a dollhouse, so there is a great deal to find on every page. It won her a second Caldecott Medal, and it is a quiet book about doing one necessary job well year after year, and about the life that fills in around it.

  • 48 pages
  • 12.1" x 7.5" x 0.5"
  • Ages 4+
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall, cover showing a red and white lighthouse on a rock in a rough sea with the Caldecott Medal seal
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall, cover showing a red and white lighthouse on a rock in a rough sea with the Caldecott Medal seal
Cutaway illustration of the lighthouse interior with the keeper arriving, beside a page about tending the light
Cutaway illustration of the lighthouse interior with the keeper arriving, beside a page about tending the light
The lighthouse beam cutting through a dark storm as tall waves rise and crash around it
The lighthouse beam cutting through a dark storm as tall waves rise and crash around it
The keeper writing in his logbook with the newborn baby in his lap while his wife rests under a quilt
The keeper writing in his logbook with the newborn baby in his lap while his wife rests under a quilt
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall, cover showing a red and white lighthouse on a rock in a rough sea with the Caldecott Medal seal
Cutaway illustration of the lighthouse interior with the keeper arriving, beside a page about tending the light
The lighthouse beam cutting through a dark storm as tall waves rise and crash around it
The keeper writing in his logbook with the newborn baby in his lap while his wife rests under a quilt
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall, cover showing a red and white lighthouse on a rock in a rough sea with the Caldecott Medal seal
Cutaway illustration of the lighthouse interior with the keeper arriving, beside a page about tending the light
The lighthouse beam cutting through a dark storm as tall waves rise and crash around it
The keeper writing in his logbook with the newborn baby in his lap while his wife rests under a quilt