Cordelia spends a day at the beach with her dinosaur friends.

A smooth, white pebble on a rocky shore enjoys life but wishes for something more, although the other rocks advise it to be content.

Jamie wants to quietly work on an art project near her friend, the sea, but people keep disturbing her by asking questions.

While waiting with family members for high tide to come in, a youngster who is very knowledgeable about the seashore and what lives there helps to build a raft.

Twelve-year-old Jane, who lives at the beach in a run-down old house with her mother, two brothers, and sister, has an eventful summer accompanying her pastor on bible deliveries, meeting former boyfriends of her mother's, and being coerced into babysitting for a family of ill-mannered children.

Three friends go to the beach, where they encounter a family of polar bears and a baby seal, adrift in the ocean on a bed of ice.

When lonely Paloma goes to the beach and wishes that she had a sister to play with, the girl she draws in the sand comes magically alive, and at day's end her parents give her the good news of a new baby on the way.

Cora's sandcastle-building contest is canceled due to litter on the beach, but determined to save her favorite place she, along with a few friends, gets to work picking up single-use plastics that have washed onto shore.

When a young boy discovers a camera on the beach and develops the film, he finds with his microscope many layers of pictures within the photographs.

A day at the beach is the occasion for this rhyming look at the relationships between things.