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One for the Road (04/07/07)

by Kelly Amabile on Apr 7th 2007 at 11:21AM

Here's one for the kids -- recently released Lightship is a colorful history of floating lighthouses, a special fleet that used to warn other ships about storms and hazards at sea.

Artist Brian Floca uses vibrant watercolor drawings to illustrate what life was like on one of these essential safety ships. The anchored boats, which operated in U.S. waters until 1983, used foghorns and lights to signal moving vessels through rough waters. Children in awe of big boats and brave sailors should enjoy this nautical narrative.

And if so, they may also like Floca's other transportation and travel-themed books for kids: The Racecar Alphabet , Up in the Air, Five Trucks and Dinosaurs at the End of the Earth, based on the true story of an explorer's expeditions into Mongolia's Gobi Desert.

Filed under: History, Learning, Books, One for the Road

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