This is a lovely book, useful for discussing adjectives and opposites and changing perspectives. The text is a series of simple declarative sentences describing a young girl’s experiences of the ocean within a single day. The illustrations add to the meaning of the text by showing how she can say back to back that the ocean is both shallow and deep (the part that rushes up on the sand v. the part she jumps into off the end of a pier), and likewise with a whole series of other opposites. One of the things I think adds a special touch to this book is that the illustrations show the main character with hand crutches: there’s no reference to why she needs them, but the readers get to see a girl with some sort of physical impairment going about her life enjoying all the beach experiences without letting her crutches get in the way.