The Little Lighthouse Keeper
Grade 2 · Longer stories
The Little Lighthouse Keeper
Written and illustrated by PlayOwl
Teo helps his nana keep the lighthouse. One foggy evening the great lens stops turning, and three boats are still out at sea.
- 16 pages
- 840 words
- Medium read
For grown-ups: what this book practices, and where it comes from
What this book practices
An original small adventure, told by a boy who helps his grandmother keep a lighthouse. When the turning machine stops in the fog, he walks the lens around by hand while she mends it right beside him. Practices ee and ea, oa and ow, and compound words.
- Level
- Longer stories: Short paragraphs, told by the child in the story
- Phonics focus
- ee and ea, long o (oa, ow, o-e), compound words
- Themes
- Family, Helping, Courage, Adventure
- After the story
- A short activity checks understanding, then a prompt to tell a grown-up about the book.
Levels are PlayOwl's own design guidelines for each grade, not a certified reading level. In I'll Read, PlayOwl records that a child turned every page; it cannot hear whether the words were read.
Credit and rights
Written and illustrated by PlayOwl.
- Cover
- Drawn in code for PlayOwl in 2026 with the Read with Olly illustration kit. Original work owned by PlayOwl.
- Illustrations
- Drawn in code for PlayOwl in 2026 with the Read with Olly illustration kit. Original work owned by PlayOwl.
- Narration
- Spoken by the reader's own device voice. PlayOwl ships no recording. No recorded work exists.
- Text
- Written for PlayOwl in 2026. The story, its characters and every sentence are new. Original work owned by PlayOwl.
