Lighthouse: A Story of Remembrance

R. Gordon Moyles is professor emeritus of English at the University of
Alberta, co-author of Imperial Dreams and Colonial Realities: British
Views of Canada, 1880–1914, and author of The Salvation Army and the
Public.

In his inimitable style—a blend of sentimental (but not cloying)
association and a brilliant insight into human relations—which has
made him one of North America’s favourite writers of children’s
books, Robert Munsch again offers us, as the blurb states, “a gentle
and poignant story of love and remembrance.”

Sarah, who has heard the story of how her father was taken by his
father to the lighthouse in the middle of the night, now awakens him to
do the same with her. The quest becomes for her an act of remembrance,
as she throws the flower she had saved from her grandfather’s funeral
out into the ocean from the lighthouse tower.

As with I’ll Love You Forever, there may be tears shed on reading
this story, but they will be tears of happiness, for Munsch celebrates
the joys of family and the lasting relationships that even death cannot
sever. The story is, as might be expected, beautifully written, destined
to become another children’s classic, and it is just as beautifully
and tenderly illustrated. Highly recommended.