The Lantern-Keeper: discussion sheet

Part Three: The Relationship · about 5 minutes to read aloud · Theme: keeping a memory together

A harbour lantern wakes each evening remembering nothing said the night before. It asks a boy named Ivo for a record it can correct, and his friends help keep it.

Choose a question to talk over, or try the activity with words and pictures.

Start here

What does the Lantern ask Ivo to write down, and what does it ask him never to do?

Go further

One storm night, nothing gets written, and Ivo wants to invent a brave sentence for the blank page. Why doesn’t he, and would you?

Make something

Design a notebook page Harbour Light can use to ask for a correction. Use its change from “the sea was calm” to “the harbour was calm”. Leave room to name the writer.

Read The Lantern-Keeper online: youngmachines.org/read/fables/the-lantern-keeper/