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28 pp.
| Holt |
January, 1998 |
TradeISBN 0-8050-4271-7
(3)
K-3
Colorful, sunny illustrations picture a young girl's day at the beach with her family and small dog. The rhyming text--"splashing / dashing / big wave crashing"--conveys the girl's busy day frolicking in the surf, while soft curvilinear shapes in the double-page spreads reinforce the comfortable tone of the brief text.