Summary
Lightships once served where lighthouses could not be built. They helped to guide sailors safely through the fog. Full description
Summary: |
Lightships once served where lighthouses could not be built. They helped to guide sailors safely through the fog. |
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Item Description: |
"A Richard Jackson Book." |
Physical Description: |
[38] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. |
Audience: |
Ages 4-7. |
Awards: |
A Junior Library Guild selection. |
ISBN: |
1416924361 (hardcover) : 9781416924364 (hardcover) |
Author Notes: |
Brian Floca is the author and illustrator of Locomotive, winner of the 2014 Caldecott Medal. He has also written and illustrated Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Lightship, The Racecar Alphabet, and Five Trucks. He is the illustrator of the Poppy Stories series, by Avi; Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan; Kate Messner's Marty McGuire novels; and Lynne Cox's forthcoming Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas. His books have received four Robert F. Sibert Honor awards, an Orbis Pictus Award, an Orbis Pictus Honor, a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators, and have twice been selected for The New York Times' annual 10 Best Illustrated Books list. (Bowker Author Biography) |