"This gentle story may encourage youngsters who have experienced the death of a loved one to share their feelings, too." -- Publishers Weekly "Echoing the sentimentality of his Love You Forever , Munsch tells the story of a girl, her father, and the memories they share of a beloved relative. Wilson's richly colored and textured oil-on-canvas illustrations capture the somber mood as well as the warmth of the father-daughter relationship. However, while fog is described and depicted numerous times, the stars twinkle brightly in the lighthouse scenes. Still, young readers will be comforted by the characters' matter-of-factness in confronting death and take strength from the promised continuity of a family tradition."-- School Library Journal ".Sarah has heard stories of her father going to the lighthouse with his father, and this is her way of trying to connect to the grandfather she loved. She and her dad add new wrinkles to the tradition: a doughnut stop, for example.

Their pilgrimage becomes both a way of holding on to Grandpa and of letting go. Subtitled A Story of Remembrance , this is a simple story about loss and the comfort of bonds between generations. Like Munsch's phenomenal Love You Forever (15 million copies sold in North America), it plucks at heartstrings. It, too, may play well to grandparents, but others will also buy it for kids. -- Quill & Quire.