Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.

In simple rhyming text tells a story of a family's day at their beach house by the sea.

Illustrations and brief rhyming text depict a boy and his mother spending a day at the beach.

At the beach, Pinkalicious and her brother help a tiny mermaid, a merminnie, to go back home.

Vampirina, the little vampire ballet dancer, shows how to have fun and be safe at the beach.

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.

A child, a doll, and an adult go for a walk on the beach one late afternoon of a cold winter day, before heading home to dinner and a bedtime story.

Gilbert the opossum imagines himself as Surfer Dude on a fun-filled day at the beach.

"Penguin's tired of the snow and cold--so he decides to go on vacation! But where should he go? And what new friends will he meet along the way?"--

As her friends in the Critter Club animal shelter care for colorful aquarium fish, second-grader Liz and her family spend a long weekend at the beach, where Liz rescues a baby octopus and competes with an unfriendly young neighbor in a sand castle contest.