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Cool Picture Books About Beaches
Are soaring gas prices keeping you from the sea and sand? Bring the beach home with these crowd-pleasers
Has your family put trips to the beach on hold until gas prices are saner?
A great picture book can serve as a stopgap measure for any children in your orbit who miss the sea and sand. It can also give all of you a richer perspective on beaches and help you see them with fresh eyes when you’re able to return.
You might start with one these award-winners, all modern classics.
‘Flotsam’ by David Wiesner (Clarion, 2006)
Honors: Caldecott Medal, many “Best Books of the Year” lists
Wiesner is the only living three-time winner of the Caldecott Medal, the American Library Association’s highest award for picture book illustration. He won his third for this eloquent, wordless picture book that encourages children to find the magic in everyday life.
Flotsam tells the story of a boy who finds an underwater camera that washes up on an unnamed beach in a Jersey Shore town (which, to judge by an “LBI” beach tag, was inspired by Long Beach Island).
Wiesner’s young hero has the film developed and finds that it reveals a fantasy…
