Kit Fenn
Seven years old, and capable of finding a second answer when the first is no.
Look closer at the illustration ↗Kit is Rosie and Jonah Fenn’s son, and Poppy’s brother. He is seven in The Lamplighter’s Round. His bed fits beneath the sloping roof, with an old brown bear beside his pillow.
He wants to accompany Jonah on the round. When the ladder proves taller than he is, he asks for something else: their own lamp must be lit last, where he can watch from the window.
Jonah promises two taps on the lamp-post. Kit is sleepy when the signal comes, but he reaches the window in time to give the word.
People they know
Jonah Fenn · From the illustrated world of Candlebury Jonah Fenn
His father
Kit asks Jonah to leave their lamp until last. Two taps on its post are the signal to come to the window.
Rosie Fenn tends the kettle beside the kitchen range. Rosie Fenn
His mother
Rosie leaves the blue blanket within Kit's reach and carries him to bed after he has watched the lamp being lit.
Places in their stories
Amberwick Passage
A London street that slopes towards the river, one lit window after another.
Stories
The Lamplighter’s Round
Walk Jonah Fenn’s evening round, from shop windows and familiar doorways down to the last lamp by the river.
With Jonah Fenn, Bartholomew Bellweather, Rosie Fenn, Kit Fenn, Constable Dimmock, Edward Bellweather