SOLVED. Children's Picture book - "It is remarkable to me" said a little girl about basically everything she sees on a trip that includes the beach. [s]

[Melissa]

My memory is that it was set in Victorian England. Read it in the '80s. Prettily illustrated with what I recall as pen and ink drawings.

[Becca]

I think I've found this one! Matilda Jane, also published as Beside the Sea: An Edwardian Summer, by Roy and Jean Gerrard. One of the reviewers writes:

'Beside the Sea' centres around a young Edwardian girl called Matilda Jane whose favourite phrase is 'It astonishes me'. Up to the time of featuring in this book she must have led a sheltered life for everything that she does, however seemingly ordinary, astonishes her - ah, the joy of innocence.

[Melissa]

Becca wrote: "I think I've found this one! Matilda Jane, also published as Beside the Sea: An Edwardian Summer, by Roy and Jean Gerrard. One of the reviewers writes:
'Beside the Sea..."

Yessss that's it! I couldn't remember that for the life of me!