Have you ever defended a sandcastle against the waves? Shouted with excitement at your first glimpse of the sea? Wondered what the creatures in a rock pool chat about?
Join bored barnacles and panicking crabs, squealing swimmers and pebble kings and queens, as you take a trip to the beach with these seven seaside poems from children’s author Julia Rawlinson.
Includes the poems Running Side to Side, The Plunge, Pebble King and Pebble Queen, I Can See the Sea, Conversations in a Rock Pool, I Woke up one Morning and Day Trip.
“Crabs ought to like the ocean, as we live upon the shore,
But I’ve always been unsettled by its foamy rush and roar,
And I wave my claws in panic at the rising of the tide,
And I try to scrabble backwards, but keep running side to side...”
Have you ever defended a sandcastle against the waves? Shouted with excitement at your first glimpse of the sea? Wondered what the creatures in a rock pool chat about?
Join bored barnacles and panicking crabs, squealing swimmers and pebble kings and queens, as you take a trip to the beach with these seven seaside poems from children’s author Julia Rawlinson.
Includes the poems Running Side to Side, The Plunge, Pebble King and Pebble Queen, I Can See the Sea, Conversations in a Rock Pool, I Woke up one Morning and Day Trip.
“Crabs ought to like the ocean, as we live upon the shore,
But I’ve always been unsettled by its foamy rush and roar,
And I wave my claws in panic at the rising of the tide,
And I try to scrabble backwards, but keep running side to side...”