Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant brings the peaceful sounds, sights, and characters of the coast vividly to life with the first four adventures in the Lighthouse Family series, now available together in a beautiful boxed set. Seabold the dog, Pandora the cat, and their three adopted mouse children love to go on adventures by the sea. In The Storm, Pandora and Seabold discover what it means to be a family. In their next adventure, The Whale, the lighthouse family meets a lost baby beluga whale and offers to help him find his lost mama. In The Eagle, the mouse children venture into the woods, where they find wonderment and a new friend. And in The Turtle, a thick fog surrounds the lighthouse and the children must help Seabold guide ships to safety and assist someone stranded on the cliff.
Author
An author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for children and young adults as well as an author and author/illustrator of picture books for children, Cynthia Rylant is recognized as a gifted writer who has contributed memorably to several genres of juvenile literature. A prolific author who often bases her works on her own background, especially on her childhood in the West Virginia mountains, she is the creator of contemporary novels and historical fiction for young adults, middle-grade fiction and fantasy, lyrical prose poems, beginning readers, collections of short stories, volumes of poetry and verse, books of prayers and blessings, two autobiographies, and a biography of three well-known children's writers; several volumes of the author's fiction and picture books are published in series, including the popular "Henry and Mudge" easy readers about a small boy and his very large dog. Rylant is perhaps most well known as a novelist. Characteristically, she portrays introspective, compassionate young people who live in rural settings or in small towns and who tend to be set apart from their peers. from bookrags.com
