Buzzeo, Toni
Lighthouse Christmas
Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter
Dial Books, 2011.
$16.99 PICTURE BOOK. Content: G.
Frances and Peter live in a lighthouse with their father on
an island out from the bay. This
is their first Christmas without their mother and they are thinking about going
to have Christmas with their aunt and leaving their father to work the
lighthouse, but when a sailor is rescued because Frances helped her father, the
kids decide to stay at the lighthouse for Christmas. On Christmas morning an airplane flies over the lighthouse
and drops a package with lots of goodies and a note from Flying Santa.
At the end of the book there is a neat
description of the Flying Santa Service which is a real service that flies over
lighthouses still today and drops packages for Christmas so that lighthouse
keepers and their families will know of the sailors’ appreciation for their
sacrifices. Great story with a
factual basis.
EL (K-3) (4-6)-ADVISABLE. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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