A must read at the start of summer or before the family leaves for the beach.
Ms. Caswell captures children's excitement, impatience and anticipation.
I love how the story begins before the title page-on the end pages and two pages before the title page!
Rhyming text make the story fun to read aloud.
The watercolor and pencil illustrations capture the mood and the beach feel well.
Love the word choice and creative phrases too (waning, "waves in view. out of reach. wishing for less house, more beach." squint, "sun-kissed knees", "towel cocoon").
Strategies: connections (t-s), word choice/expanding vocab
*Highly recommend.
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