The lights and types of ships at night

by dave eggers

illustrated by Annie Dills

You may have heard of ships. You may have also heard of the sea and the night. But did you realize there’s nothing more beautiful than a ship and its lights on the sea at night? In warm and witty prose, this picture book’s narrator asks the reader to consider the splendor of glowing lights cast by ships on a shimmering waterway. Meet a trawler, a steamship, a RORO, an exploratory vessel and more across richly illustrated pages, alive with the glowy, otherworldly nighttime scenes of boats as seen from a child’s perspective.

“We chase the idea of beauty across the world, ship by ship, culture by culture, light by light… Each of Dills’s double-page images show(s) us a glowing, soft-focussed wonder.”

—The New York Times, Brian Selznick

“Imagine Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors turned into a boat book for preschoolers. Void and light and the blur of water melt into the ultimate bedtime fare.”

—NPR Best Books of 2020

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