1ST UK ED. FINE HARDBACK COPY- NO DJ AS ISSUED. Another delightful story about everyone's favorite Lighthouse Keeper. Armitage won NEW ZEALAND LIBRARY ASSOC. AWARD & ESTHER GLEN AWARD for "Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch". This time Mr. & Mrs. Grinling are the very special guests at the lighthouse's 200th birthday party. When they take to the high seas, they have far more pirate adventures then could ever have imagined! And their orange cat Hamish gives them the biggest surprise of all!

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Title

The Lighthouse Keeper's Rescue

Publisher

Andre Deutsch Ltd, London

Publication Date

1991

Language

English

ISBN 10

0233984283

ISBN 13

9780233984285

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Armitage, Ronda & David

Edition

1st Edition

Printing

1st Printing

Condition

Fine

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When Mr. Grinling, an elderly lighthouse keeper, begins falling asleep before he turns on the lighthouse's light, he fears he will lose his job

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Mr. Grinling, first introduced in The Lighthou s e Keeper's Lunch (1979; o.p.) and The Lighthouse Keeper's Catastrophe (1986, both Andre Deutsch), still delights in his work but, due to his advancing age, begins dozing on the job. He fails on two occasions to turn on the lighthouse beam, and so is fired. As he and his wife sadly pack their belongings, they and some local villagers rescue a beached whale. Everyone is pleased when the lighthouse authorities reward Mr. Grinling by rehiring him as a part-time lighthouse keeper. The text reads well aloud and is appropriately placed on sprightly, full-page watercolors, accented with pen-and-ink details to lend definition. The pages are sometimes cluttered and on occasion the faces in a single picture are penned in disconcertingly different styles--a flatter look mixed with a more three-dimensional one. The strength of this picture book lies in its brief but effective character portrayal of two elderly and likable protagonists. --Cynthia Bishop, Onondaga County Public Library, Syracuse, NY
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