![]() Meanwhile, Lampie and the Children of the Sea translated by Laura Watkinson and published by Pushkin Press, this English translation of Annet Shaap's prize-winning debut begins with a lighthouse and its 61steps. Young readers who enjoy fiction at its nail-biting, cliff-hanging best will not be disappointed. Suitable for more mature middle-grade or YA readers, the story features the kidnapping of the protagonist’s sister, and a web of devastating family secrets that he must untangle on his mission to rescue her. This is a gripping adventure, full of danger, dark magic and mythical beings, but so beautifully written the rugged, stormy coast feels completely real and you can almost taste the salt-spray in the cold, night air.Ī lighthouse and coastal cave provide an equally atmospheric setting in Tim Bowler’s powerful psychological thriller, Storm Catchers. The second in Abi Elphinstone’s fabulous Dreamsnatcher series, The Shadow Keeperfinds Moll hiding out in a cave by the sea, on her quest for the second amulet. Five go to Demon’s Rocksfeatures an eccentric lad called Tinker, an abandoned lighthouse, some smugglers, a secret passage and a monkey called Mischief! What more could you possibly want? When they are evacuated from London to a lighthouse on the coast of Devon, Olive begins to unravel a strange and dangerous mystery.Įnid Blyton’s tales still captivate many young readers today, and I know I’m not alone in looking back fondly on these good old-fashioned adventurous romps (with lashings of ham salad and ginger beer). If, like me, you love a lighthouse setting, you’ll love Emma Carroll’s brilliant 2017 novel Letters from the Lighthouse – a moving and intriguing Second World War tale featuring brave young heroine Olive Bradshaw and her little brother Cliff. In fact, Pet’s nightmare of the Wyrm in Our Castle by the Sea is partly inspired by the 1977 Doctor Who series Horror of Fang Rock, which features a similarly horrifying creature crawling its way out of the sea and slithering up the lighthouse steps! They are perfect settings for ghost stories or supernatural thrillers due to their wild and isolated locations. Lighthouses have featured in our best-loved stories for centuries – at the heart of heroic tales and nautical legends. ![]() Why the lighthouse is fiction's perfect setting Twelve-year-old Petra’s world has always been one of storms, secret passages and stories about sea monsters, but when the Second World War begins and Petra’s neighbours start to turn upon her and her German mother, the clifftops that she has known all her life suddenly become a terrifying battleground. My new children’s novel, Our Castle by the Sea, is set in a lighthouse on the chalky cliffs of Kent. I don’t know if it’s the quirky, architectural novelty of them, the romantic, windswept locations or the thrill of the spiral staircase that goes up, up, up into the sky, but they hold a very special place in my imaginative world. Discover the best lighthouses in children’s literatureĪuthor Lucy Strange indulges our love of the mysterious lighthouse with her round-up of the best ones in kid's books, from old-fashioned adventure yarns to tales of mermaids and pirates.
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