Look What I Found at the Beach

Look What I Found

by Moira Butterfield, Jesús Verona (illustrator)

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.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Animals, Summer, Nonfiction, Nature

32 pages, Hardcover

Published May 24, 2022

About the author

I wrote my first book when I was 8 years old. I glued photos of my cats in a blank book and wrote about them, too. Now I am an internationally-published children's author commended by the Library of Congress for my work encouraging children to read.
I write in a room between a deli and an art gallery on a small town street. I can see families walking by, and I can hear children laughing and playing. It helps me to remember what exactly I'm doing this for - creating books for families all over the world to use together, and helping children to love words.

Reviews

[Olivia]

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LOOK WHAT I FOUND AT THE BEACH is a delightful picture book that follows three friends on their trip to the beach. The book provides a quick rhyme with items to look for in each beach scene, and the next spread gives more detail about those items/animals and gives more to discover. For instance, the first scene has the reader find some specific shells before the next page goes into different shapes they can see and facts about shells and the animals that live within them. The book covers several different topics of things children could see at the beach with interesting facts and details they might notice on their next visit.

What I loved: This was such an informative and engaging read. The colorful spreads are quite interactive with things to search for and plenty to see. The facts provided are really interesting, and I appreciated the narrow scope of each topic throughout, focusing on a particular animal/item at the beach. There was plenty to learn, and some facts were things that I did not even know. Children will enjoy the way the book reads as well as the detailed illustrations.

Final verdict: An educational and interactive picture book, LOOK WHAT I FOUND AT THE BEACH is an engaging read that preschool and elementary school aged readers are sure to enjoy.

[Kayla Zabcia · Rating 3 out of 5]

fine for its age range (2-5). the "can you also find" bits were fun, but the educational "to find/spot" segments on every other page were a tad confusing, since you wouldn't look for them on the page; they should've labelled those as "at the beach" or something entirely different to indicate you're not meant to find them in the book like you do with the other prompts.

[April · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved reading this with my son! Lovely illustrations, I love the rhyming moments and the learning moments. My son liked finding the objects, like it was a game of I Spy. All around a cute book to read with younger readers.

[Jaime · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book to Julianna today. We really enjoyed it. Has some look and find parts. Teaches about what the characters in book saw. I think it was a great book to read qith Julianna and the illustrations were very nice!

[Andréa]

Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.

[Edward Sullivan · Rating 4 out of 5]

An engaging look at all the natural wonders to find at the seashore.

[Patricia Q · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of information with lovely illustrations.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome book teaching about shells and other fun things to find at the beach and in tide pools. Wonderful illustrations, highly readable with short text sections & bright colors.

[Ms. Madalyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

A well written and illustrated non-fiction book about the different kinds of things that you can find at the beach

[Erin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a fun combo of non-fiction and seek-and-find book. I really like the illustrations.

[Aimee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Engaging illustrations. Some pages include search and find clues. Other pages include details about different types of rocks, pebbles, crabs, and more.

[Nanny B · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finding fun, interesting things at the beach.
A fre pages where you "dpy" specific things in the illustrations.

*Promotes evolutionary theory,,: " millions of years old"

[Alyssa Gudenburr · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very cute search and find book. Not good for storytime.