![]() ![]() ![]() Gorgeous ink and watercolor illustrations give a constant sense of movement to this wordless picture book: the little girl’s red hair flies this way and that in the wind, along with bending grasses and soaring seabirds, and the changing beach milieu brings readers right into the sunny day. Eventually, the exhausted sibs get on the bus and head back to the city, leaving behind a structure standing just at water’s edge. The water keeps rising, until finally they wise up and move to higher ground as the tide comes in. ![]() This time the water stays away, but a sunhat blown off in the wind topples the castle those pesky waves crash over their next iteration, and a wayward toddler takes another one down. Too close to the shore, their first attempt is quickly swept away, but-despite parental suggestions to move their worksite-they try again. On what is clearly a much-anticipated beach day, three siblings endeavor to make a giant sandcastle. ![]()
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