Look What I Found at the Beach

by Moira Butterfield, Jesus Verona (Illustrator)

Overview

Open your senses to a world of wonder by taking a walk along the beach!

Set off on an adventure and find natural treasures, from spiraled seashells to discarded mermaid's purses. Then learn more about the marine plants and creatures in this fact-filled guide to the outdoors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781536223972
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	06/14/2022
Series:	Look What I Found
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	1,069,005
Product dimensions:	9.90(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Moira Butterfield has traveled around the globe and thinks our world is an endlessly exciting place to explore. After studying literature, she became an author of nonfiction and fiction children's books, including Look What I Found in the Woods, illustrated by Jesús Verona. She ardently believes there are no limits to the imagination. Moira Butterfield lives with her family in Bath, England.

Jesús Verona’s work is divided between children’s illustration and illustrating for an agency. His main interests are nature, art, typography, architecture, and design. His illustrations feature his love for details and vivid colors. Jesús Verona was born in Madrid but lives with his wife and three children in Stockholm, Sweden.

Editorial Reviews

This fun- and science-filled work unobtrusively offers three elements that can draw young readers in and keep them going. . . Verona’s bright, primary-colored, digital images portray lively beach exploration . . . This will be fun for grown-ups to read with children, as they can do the seek-and-find together.
—Booklist

With lovely cartoon tableaux of shells, rocks, crabs, birds, fossils and other seaside sights, this fact-packed book works as a search-and-find story, a field guide, and a narrative of a day of beach exploration.
—The Virginian Pilot

From the Publisher

07/01/2022

PreS-K—Three children visit the seaside and are surprised by all the treasures they find there. Equipped with pails and shovels, they search the shore for objects the ocean once held. Each section features a rhyming couplet describing their activity, followed by the object: "Look what I found!" Readers' eyes then scan the spread carefully for the found object. Graph paper insets in the lower right ask for three other things in the picture, and some of these are a challenge! There are birds, shells, flowers, creatures, and fossils throughout the book for readers to pore over. Tide pools and caves vary the seashore habitats and provide opportunities for different flora and fauna. Finally, it is time to head home where they lay out all their finds to marvel at once more. Advice on the final page tells children not to take living things from the beach and to leave the beach as they found it. Colorful digital images offer a very real sense of all the discoveries in the day. Substantial nonfiction is welcome for the preschool set to things they may not have had access to in real life. This is bound to spark their interest in the world around them. VERDICT A great addition to libraries and classrooms, this will inspire children to embrace all the discoveries the world has to offer.—Joan Kindig

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