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The Little Lighthouse Who Wanted to Wander

A story about distance, purpose, and seeing farther than you can travel.

An illustrated children’s story and interactive reader about longing to move, learning to see differently, and finding possibility inside a fixed point.

A scene from the director's proof of The Little Lighthouse Who Wanted to Wander: Wick tethered to a string of kites carrying off a bucket, two socks and a startled crab, with the page text beneath.
On the pageCapture of the page as drawn. Corey D.M. Johnson. Unmodified beyond resampling: no crop, no colour grade, no compositing.

The question

A little lighthouse wants to go somewhere — an understandable problem for a building. The story follows what happens when a fixed point discovers a life can expand in more than one direction.

What I made

A locked manuscript, twenty-four illustrated scenes, and a working responsive reader.

Where it is now

The whole story is here. Its public form is still under careful construction.

Evolving. Public-release and accessibility work are in progress, and deployment isn’t required for the work to be worth showing.

A few more things worth seeing

The route map for Wick’s journey, drawn as a geography: each stop on the coast in the order the story visits it.
DrawingThe drawing itself. Corey D.M. Johnson. Unmodified beyond resampling: no crop, no colour grade, no compositing.
A contact sheet from the director’s proof, six scenes of Wick’s journey in sequence.
On the pageCapture of the page as drawn. Corey D.M. Johnson. Unmodified beyond resampling: no crop, no colour grade, no compositing.

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