Lulu, who likes to wear a ladybug costume, goes to the beach for the first time and makes sand castles, flies kites, and deals with her fear of the ocean.

The reader is asked to guess what Roxanne must leave behind (ball, umbrella, book, turtle, or baby) as she tries various means of transportation to get to the beach.

A little cat named Sneakers experiences the sights, sounds, and smells of an ocean beach.

When they arrive at the beach, two young pandas discover throughout the day that they need their swimsuits, goggles, and shovels, until the driving back and forth to retrieve the items makes their father come up with a creative idea.

A young girl enjoys building sandcastles, splashing in the sea, and making a new friend during an afternoon at the beach.

A young princess and her family have lots of fun at the beach as she discovers all there is to see there, from animals to waves to sunshine.

A young boy builds a sand castle on the beach and a dragon moves in. The boy and the dragon spend the day at the shore flying a kite, braving the waves, defying bullies, and roasting marshmallows, while the boy's parents remain occupied nearby with their own pastimes. When no one believes the boy's story about the dragon, the creature launches into a mischievous mode and wreaks havoc on everything in its path-- or is it all in the boy's imagination?...

A wordless book in which a boy finds a camera at the beach and the film inside reveals fascinating underwater pictures as well as children around the world, so the boy takes his own picture and returns the camera to the sea where it will journey to another child.

Mira Bella mobilizes her art students, from grandmothers to children, crabs to seagulls, to stop a dastardly plan for turning the beach at Ballyhoo Bay into an exclusive resort, and offers an alternative--leave the beach as it is.