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2019Caldecott Medal Winner

On the highest rock of a tiny island, a lighthouse stands, towering over the surrounding sea, its beams warning ships of danger and beckoning them home. Inside its curved walls, the keeper lives year-round with his wife, tending to the lighthouses every need. He polishes the lens and refills the oil. He trims the burned end of the wick. He clangs the warning bells during heavy fog, and rescues sailors during storms. As time passes, the oil lamp is replaced with an electric light and the keeper is no longer needed. But the lighthouse is still there calling out to the sea and land. Told with breathtaking watercolor and ink illustrations from Caldecott medalist, Sophie Blackall.

Your young readers and listeners will love this stunning homage to lighthouses and those who have kept them running for generations. Ages 3-6. 40pp.

BLACKALL, Sophie.Hello, Lighthouse. NY: Little, Brown [2018]. 4to, [40]pp. Color pictorial boards. Color pictorial endpapers; color illustrations on every page, including one fold-out, three-page spread. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed).Signed by the author/artist, two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall, with a small drawing of a whale and her hand-captioned “Hello!” coming from both the Lighthouse above the title and the steamship below it.

First edition.2019 Caldecott Medalist. A luminous tribute to a steadfast lighthouse and its reassuring light, lovingly told and illustrated by this celebrated, two-time Caldecott Medalist. Blackall’s lovely, glowing illustrations were painted in watercolor and Chinese ink on hot-press paper. Please note, this was signed by artist with a drawing in our store and not one of the copies issued by the publisher with a “Signed Copy” sticker. Scarce thus.