The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge: Restored Edition

by Hildegarde H. Swift, Lynd Ward (Illustrator)

Overview

Lighting up readers' hearts and imaginations since it was first published in 1942.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780152045739
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/01/2003
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	189,331
Product dimensions:	6.76(w) x 8.28(h) x 0.19(d)
Lexile:	530L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

HILDEGARDE HOYT SWIFT (1890-1977) wrote several books for children. Best known for The Railroad to Freedom, which was cited for a Newbery Honor in 1933, M. Swift spent her life recording the lives of heroic Americans. The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge is her most popular picture book. <br>LYND WARD (1905-1985) illustrated more than two hundred books for children and adults throughout his prolific career. Winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1952 for his watercolors in The Biggest Bear, Mr. Ward was also famous for his wood engravings which can be seen in museum collections throughout the United States and abroad.<br>

LYND WARD (1905-1985) illustrated more than two hundred books for children and adults throughout his prolific career. Winner of the Caldecott Medal for his watercolors in The Biggest Bear, Mr. Ward was also famous for his wood engravings, which are featured in museum collections throughout the United States and abroad.

Editorial Reviews

"There is just enough humanizing in the pictures—the intimation of a face on the tower, fog forming a grasping hand—to maintain the human spirit of the story and lead to its message: 'Each to his own place, little brother.' " —New York Herald Tribune

"Such a picture-story book as Mrs. Swift and Mr. Ward have made between them will not only be deeply enjoyed by boys and girls ... but will help to cultivate in them the seeing eye, and make them sensitive to the beauty which they can so easily find around them." —The New York Times
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From the Publisher

In this well-loved story, newly printed with redone plates, a small red beacon, after being overshadowed by the George Washington Bridge, once again makes the Hudson River safe for boats trying to navigate its waters. Ages 3-7. (Apr.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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