I see their lights - orange, green and white on the night water floating like Christmas trees in the blackness. Everyone thinks I am asleep, but I’m not. In my loft high above the city I am a night watcher.
With these words, Jason, a boy living in Boston's North End, begins to tell of his love for the tugboats that work in Boston Harbor and of his friendship with the crew of one of the boats.
As they work with the ironclad monsters of the sea, small tugboats become objects of fascination for those who watch from the shore. In this beautiful book Kathryn Lasky and Christopher Knight make us feel the power of machine working with machine and the joy of a young boy out for an adventure of his own.