Books with title The Fantastical Lighthouse

Excerpt: ...children would be apt to feel very much at their ease. At all events, I am acquainted with some women who are not easily frightened." "Really, I think it is not fair to interrupt the story in this way," said Minnie, with a laugh. "Right, lass, right," said the captain. "Come, leftenant, spin away at yer yarn, and don't ventur' too much commentary thereon, 'cause it's apt to lead to error, an' ye know, as the poet says- 'Errors in the heart breed errors in the brain, An' these are apt to twist ye wrong again.' I'm not 'xactly sure o' the precise words in this case, but that's the sentiment, and everybody knows that sentiment is everything in poetry, whether ye understand it or not. Fire away, leftenant, an' don't be long-winded if ye can help it." "Well, to return to the point," resumed Lindsay. "The town was certainly thrown into a tremendous state of some sort, for the people had no arms of any kind wherewith to defend themselves. There were no regular soldiers, no militia, and no volunteers. Everybody ran wildly about in every direction, not knowing what to do. There was no leader, and, in short, the town was very like a shoal of small fish in a pool when a boy wades in and makes a dash amongst them. "At last a little order was restored by the Provost, who was a sensible old man, and an old soldier to boot, but too infirm to take as active a part in such an emergency as he would have done had he been a dozen years younger. He, with several of the principal men of the town, went down to the beach to receive the bearers of the flag of truce. "The boat was manned by a crew of five or six seamen, armed with cutlasses, and arquebusses. As soon as its keel grated on the sand a smart little officer leaped ashore, and presented to the Provost a letter from Captain Fall, which ran somewhat in this fashion:- "'AT SEA, May twenty-third. "'GENTLEMEN,-I send these two words to inform you, that I will have...

Grandma is old, but the lighthouse is older. Much older. It was already old when grandma was a little girl, when she lived in the village behind the dunes. She dreamed about it - that later on, when she grew up, she’d live in the round room high up in the lighthouse. And her dream came true, because living in the round room was Jonas, the son of the lighthouse keeper. Jonas dreamed about grandma before she was a grandma, when she was just a happy girl with apple red cheeks. Thus begins of the story of the Lighthouse; a story of generations coming and going, of the sea, of hope. and tenderness. Koos Meinderts wrote this gentle, flowing story and his wife Annette provided the warm and evocative art of a distant time and place.

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Seven tightly interwoven narratives. Three harrowing hours. One fateful day that changes everything. Delaware, the morning of April 19. Senior Skip Day, and April Donovan's eighteenth birthday. Four days after the Boston Marathon bombing, the country is still reeling, and April's rare memory condition has her recounting all the tragedies that have cursed her birth month. And just what was that mysterious gathering under the bleachers about? Meanwhile, in Nebraska, Lincoln Evans struggles to pay attention in Honors English, distracted by the enigmatic presence of Laura Echols, capturer of his heart. His teacher tries to hold her class's interest, but she can't keep her mind off what Adrian George told her earlier. Over in Idaho, Phoebe is having second thoughts about the Plan mere hours before the start of a cross-country ploy led by an Internet savant known as the Mastermind. Is all her heartache worth the cost of the Assassins' machinations? The Light Fantastic is a tense, shocking, and beautifully wrought exploration of the pain and pathos of a generation of teenagers on the brink?Çöand the hope of moving from shame and isolation into the light of redemption.

Four children begin their school summer holidays looking for adventure. They row their boat to an island with a disused lighthouse.Inside they find a number of very unusual creatures, who come from the Cola Islands. Adventures visiting all these islands on rocket ships driven by Trainee Superheroes follow finishing with helping the Police catch a gang of crooks. The best holiday ever for The Fantastic Four. Illustrations by Disney Illustrator Rosemary Young.