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The Lantern of the Sea
Hardcover
Publisher: Sea Lantern
Published: Mar 31 2026
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
The Lantern of the Sea is an illustrated picture book about love, duty, and the light that holds between a parent and child across distance.
When a Lantern Keeper must answer the sea's call, he places his lantern in his young son's hands and tells him it carries the part of him that stays. Through seasons and storms, the boy learns to tend that light, and in doing so, discovers that love which serves the world never truly leaves it.
Written in poetic, unhurried prose and illustrated with rare warmth, the book speaks to children navigating a parent's absence with steadiness rather than false comfort. It does not explain distance away. It gives families a shared language to hold it.
A story for families where a parent goes to sea, to a long posting, or to any work that calls them far from home. For children aged 4 to 8, and for anyone who has ever waited for someone to come home.
A Sea Lantern title.
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