The Firehouse Light - Hardcover

Nolan, Janet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582462984 ISBN 13: 9781582462981

Publisher: Tricycle Press, 2010

Synopsis

Day after day, year after year,
the lightbulb did not burn out. 
 
Here is the true story of a little lightbulb, located in a firehouse, that has stayed lit for more than one hundred years. As horse-drawn carriages make room for automobiles, dirt roads give way to paved streets, and new buildings transform small clusters of homes into bustling neighborhoods, a small town grows and changes. And fighting fires changes, too: fires once fought by bucket brigades and hand-pulled hose carts are now attended by full-time firefighters and modern firetrucks. Yet now, just like then, the lightbulb glows, strong and steady, above the brave firefighters and their trucks.

About this title

About the Author:

JANET NOLAN has written two previous picture books and lives in Oak Park, Illinois. About The Firehouse Light, Janet says, “The lightbulb has been the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine articles, television and radio shows. It has caught the attention of Ripley’s Believe It or Not and the Guinness Book of World Records.” Janet currently serves as Program Co-Chair for the Illinois chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). 
 
MARIE LAFRANCE has illustrated more than twenty children’s books and is originally from Quebec City. She studied graphic arts at CEGEP in Vieux-Montréal and etching at Studio Graff. Marie has lived in San Francisco and New York, where she worked as a silk-screen printmaker for various galleries. She returned to Montreal to work as a freelance illustrator and has been nominated for many awards, including the prestigious Governor General’s Award. Marie lives with her partner and their daughter, Béatrice.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

A long time ago, when horse-drawn buggies delivered ice to keep food cold, and laundry dried on ropes in the sun, fires were fought with buckets, axes, and hand-pulled carts with water hoses.
      In one little town on a moonless night, a cry rang out: “Fire!”
      Out of bed the townspeople leapt.  As they lined up in bucket brigades, they lent their voices to the rising cry. 
      “Get the hose cart!”
      “Grab the buckets!”
Volunteer firefighters ran through the night toward the wooden shack where the firefighting equipment was kept.  They threw open the doors, but it was dark inside and hard to see.
      “Light a lantern!” one man yelled.
      “Hold it high!” called another as they reached inside the pitch-black shack, wheeled out the hose cart, and raced to put out the fire.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tricycle Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1582462984
• ISBN 13: 9781582462981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Lafrance Marie