Lightship
Lightships once served where lighthouses could not be built. They helped to guide sailors safely through the fog.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
c2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| 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) |
