Author:
Schaap, Annet, author, illustrator.
Physical Description352 p. ; 20 cm.
Note:Originally published as: Lampje by Em. Querido's Uitgeverij, Amsterdam, 2017.
Note:Also published in English as: Lampie and the children of the sea.
Note:First published in English by Pushkin Press in 2019.
Note:Every night Lampie, the lighthouse keeper's daughter lights the lantern which warns the ships away from the rocks, but when the light goes out one night, a ship is wrecked and Lampie is sent to the Admiral's Black House in disgrace--there she finds and befriends the Admiral's son, who was born with a tail, and together they are pulled into an adventure of mermen and pirates, and secret identities long concealed but soon to be revealed.
Audience:Ages 10 and up. Charlesbridge.