The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge

Typically, books that give personalities to trains or plows or other equipment don't really excite me much. Buildings seem to be different. I loved the ‘little house’ Virginia Burton wrote about. This book about a lighthouse was really good too, I thought. I like the thought that everything has cons......more

Beautiful illustrations in black, red and blue tell the story of a lighthouse, a bridge and a boat. The illustration that shows the fog as a bending man with his woolly hand cupped around the boat is wonderful. Ideal for children who love boats and the sea. Read on openlibrary.......more

A sweet book. My son loved it when he was young. I did it as a FaceTime read with my twin granddaughters during the Covid lockdown. Between the nostalgia and the enforced separation, the book almost had me in tears this time around. We're all looking for our purpose in this big world.......more

Once upon a time, there was a picture book about a real little red lighthouse. Some time later, well after the book’s publication, when it was announced that the lighthouse would be razed, there was an outpouring of letters from children who had read the book and had grown to love the little beacon.......more

Published in 1942, this tells, in a rather inventive way, the story of the little red lighthouse which still stands proud beneath the George Washington Bridge. Originally there, pre-bridge, as a guide for those sailing the Hudson River, the personified lighthouse feels obsolete with the dawn of the......more