For Kate, life at the Great Point Lighthouse on Nantucket Island can be exciting, full of stormy seas and even shipwrecks. But it can also be lonely, with only her mother, father, and brother Sam to keep her company. Now it's Christmas Eve, and Kate waits in her lighthouse as a blizzard threatens to ruin this most special day. For as long as she can remember, the Lighthouse Santa has dropped presents from his airplane for all the lighthouse keepers' children. But will his plane make it through hurricane winds and blinding snow? Sam says it is impossible, but Kate has been keeping a secret Christmas wish all year long, and she will not give up hope. Based on the Christmas flights of Edward Rowe Snow, hero to lighthouse children for almost fifty years, The Lighthouse Santa has all the elements of a true Christmas classic: light, love, wonder, and the power of one child's faith to shine through darkness. From the midst of the howling storm to her own soaring flight with the Lighthouse Santa, Kate must cling to her father's promise that "Nothing is impossible on Christmas Eve in a lighthouse." In their first collaboration since the success of their award-winning picture book The Unbreakable Code, author Sara Hoagland Hunter and illustrator Julia Miner once again shed light on a little-known episode of history.

 

There are 36 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by University Press of New England .

Julia Miner is an architect, designer, and artist who has illustrated three books for children: Lighthouse Santa, The Unbreakable Code, and The Shepherd's Song. SARA HOAGLAND HUNTER is the author of ten books for children including her most recent, Every Turtle Counts, winner of a Ben Franklin Gold Award, a Moonbeam Children's Award, and a National Science Teachers Outstanding Science Trade Book Award. Her best-known work is multiple award-winner The Unbreakable Code, the inspiring story of the Navajo code talkers of World War II illustrated by Julia Miner. Ms. Hunter has written for Warner Bros. , Nickelodeon, and Jim Henson Productions. Her songs for the animated television seriesThe Baby Looney Tunes air around the world. JULIA MINER, an architect and artist from Concord, MA, believes what a friend once said: "What you do for children counts twice. " She has illustrated four picture books including The Unbreakable Code by Sara Hunter, which won several honors including the Smithsonian Book Award, the Western Writers of America Spur Award, and The Arizona Governor's Literacy Award. Sales from her landscape paintings benefit the Food Project, employing inner city and suburban youth to farm together, and Water. org, providing safe water to children around the globe. Julia enjoys sharing with students of all ages the process of making a book, a painting, or a place we inhabit. Visit her at www. juliaminer. com.