Central Kansas Library System

Bad-tempered Crabapple Sam lives alone at the seashore, until Celeste arrives to soften him up and renew the damaged friendship between him and her grandfather.

Tales of Blackbeard the pirate and hundreds of shipwrecks near Cape Hatteras are only part of the rich history of Americas first national seashore park.

A child and her mother walk in the moonlight beside the sea. This night will become a memory as luminous and enduring as the moon itself. With unforgettable silver-washed images and gentle, flowing words that evoke a mood as only Martin Waddell can do, The Big Big Sea portrays a bond between parent and child that makes even the dark sea safe and serene.

Follow Crab as he learns 13 easy yoga poses with the help of his seashore friends. Crab will practise first, and then it's your turn! Look at the pictures, then follow the instructions to learn the poses. See Crab float like Seal, balance like Seagull and puff out like Clownfish -- can you do it, too?

"Ember Taffee had always lived with her mother and sister in the little cottage by the sea. Her father had once lived there too, but the deep had claimed his life long ago. Still, her existence was a happy one, and Ember found joy, imagination, and respite in the sea and the trinkets it would leave for her on the sand. Each morning Ember would wander the shore searching for treasures left by the tides. Though she cherished each pretty shell she found,...

Invites young readers to learn the numbers one through twenty by joining friendly Starla the starfish on a counting adventure by the sea.

Shirley's adventures at the beach are interspersed with familiar parental warnings.

Labelled pairs of illustrations introduce opposites found at the seashore.