Beach Day

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In this charming picture book, a cheerful family tumbles out of the car and onto the beach, ready for a perfect day. Buoyant verse just right for reading aloud and bright, playful illustrations capture the singular feeling of a hazy, lazy day by the ocean, complete with a ball game with new friends, water-skiers and sailboats, and a picnic lunch of fried chicken and deviled eggs. This book is a captivating introduction to the beach for young children and an irresistible gift for beach lovers of any age.

Rhyming text describes a perfect day at the beach, complete with sandy knees, deviled eggs, and a castle with a moat.

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Publishers Weekly

Young readers will be searching for flip-flops and sunscreen upon finishing this kicky look at a summer day spent at the shore. In her picture book debut, Roosa serves up myriad salty, sandy and sunny images in bouncy verse. ("High clouds flurry,/ Sand crabs scurry--/ Hungry swimmers/ In a hurry!/ Chicken legs,/ Deviled eggs.../ What a banquet!/ Seagull begs.") From building sandcastles to romping in the surf and enjoying a beach blanket feast, Roosa incorporates all the fun things that families do on a beach-vacation day that stretches from morning to twilight. Smith (This Is Your Garden) matches Roosa's joyful tone step for step, depicting families of every size, shape and color, donning all manner of bright bathing suits, sun hats and cover-ups. A rainbow of sand toys, towels, beach umbrellas and coolers dot the dunes and the beach itself like colored pebbles. Smiling children and kind-faced adults (and a couple of playful pooches) make use of every part of nature's playground; sailors and kite-fliers in the background further extend the energetic on-the-sand and in-the-water scenes. All told, this book will have the whole family hankering for a day by the water. Ages 3-6. (Apr.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Children's Literature

In simple rhythmic language, this book explores a fun-filled day at the beach. The family arrives early in the morning loaded down with sand toys, beach chairs, an umbrella and a cooler filled with picnic food. They find the perfect spot to spread out towels and join the other families watching the waves crash and roar, as boats and water-skiers cut through the water, leaving a glistening spray. As kids play and parents watch the little ones, the text and illustrations manage to capture just about every aspect of a sunny day at the shore, including the insects and the sand between the toes. The heat of the noon sun encourages a frolic in the water, and then, after a ball game, everyone settles down to lunch while a seagull begs for crumbs. Later, there is more time for fun before everything must be packed up for the trip home as the sun goes down. 2001, Clarion/Houghton Mifflin, $15.00. Ages 3 to 6. Reviewer: Carolyn Mott Ford

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School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 2-Delighted families rush onto the beach. Parents and children water-ski, bury themselves in the sand, splash and cavort in the water, play ball, and build colossal sand castles. Gliding over heads and swirling under feet, the rhyming text is well complemented by Smith's jubilant and frolicsome pictures. The excitement and enthusiasm of the day are perfectly captured by the artist's bright, lively watercolors and the author's active, playful text. Pair this with Marie-Louise Gay's Stella, Star of the Sea (Groundwood, 1999) and Silvia Francia's Roberta's Vacation (Kane/Miller, 1998) for a swimmingly fine storytime.-Be Astengo, Alachua County Library, Gainesville, FL Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

It is a land and waterscape that reaches right down into our primordial souls-the beach, here given full iconic treatment. Using scant couplets to convey the most elemental pleasures of a day at the beach, and enticingly depicted in Smith's watercolors, this will call up memories of any reader who has spent time on the ocean's shore. From that first rush down the dunes and onto the strand-"Waves roar, / Rush, and soar! / Rolling, crashing / To the shore"-to the tramp back out-"Sun-warmed skin, contented grin"-it is an experience unlike any other and Roosa's got it just right. Sandcastles, swimming, softball, snoozing. Pictured details entice: kicking off one's shoes, chasing sand crabs, enjoying trays of yummy lunch. "Noon light / Shimmers bright / In the distance, / Hot and white." Appetite and taste take on a special edge, and then the hit of post-lunch languor: "Waves lapping/ Babies napping / On the water / Sails are snapping." Good stuff, simple and viscerally transporting, the waft of salt strong from the page. Over too soon. (Picture book. 3-6)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780618029235
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: 3/19/2001
Format: Library Binding
Edition description: None
Pages: 40
Sales rank: 176,458
Age range: 4 - 8 Years
Product dimensions: 10.75 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 0.13 (d)

Meet the Author

Karen Roosa lives with her family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in a converted barn. She wrote Beach day, her first book, one summer when she was longing to hear the sound of the ocean.

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