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    A Beach Tail
    A Beach Tail
    A Beach Tail
    Audiobook6 minutes

    A Beach Tail

    Written by Karen Lynn Williams

    Narrated by Dion Graham

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    About this audiobook

    Karen Lynn Williams "always takes readers on a worthwhile journey" (Booklist) with her critically acclaimed children's tales. A Beach Tail follows a father and son during a magical day at the beach. After Gregory draws a lion in the sand, his father tells him to stay close to it and not to wander away. So Gregory, taking his father's advice to heart, doesn't dare leave his lion-even when he draws its tail so long it extends the length of the beach.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 7, 2014
    ISBN9781490608921
    A Beach Tail
    Author

    Karen Lynn Williams

    When Karen Lynn Williams was growing up in New Haven, Connecticut, her dream was to become the youngest novelist ever. At the age of ten, she formed a writing group with some of her friends. They would lounge around on pillows and in old stuffed chairs in her basement and write for hours. When Karen hadn't produced the hoped-for novel by the age of twelve, she gave up on her dream of early publication, but not on writing. Although it took longer than she initially thought it would, eventually Karen became the award-winning author of such books as Baseball and Butterflies (a novel) and Galimoto and Painted Dreams, both picture books illustrated by Catherine Stock. Karen Lynn Williams lives with her husband, Steven, and their children, Peter, Christopher, Rachel, and Jonathan, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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    • 4/5
      drawing lines along the beach
    • 4/5
      Floyd Cooper truly outdid himslef on this book. This was a wonderfully illustrated beach tale about a boy exploring the beach by manipulating what his father told him so that he technically was following his guidelines without following their intent. Well done.
    • 3/5
      When Gregory's father tells him not to leave "Sandy" - the lion he has drawn in the sand - and not to go in the water, the young boy has no intention of doing anything else. Stick in hand, he sets out to give Sandy a tail. Stretching down the beach - past a gooey purple jellyfish, the washed-out remains of a sand castle, and a little crab scurrying in the warm sand - it turns out to be a very long tail indeed, and although Greg doesn't go in the water, or leave Sandy, he discovers that he has left Dad behind...A gentle tale (or should that be "tail?") of a day at the beach, this lovely picture-book explores the wonder and excitement of a sunny summer day, and the loving bond between father and son. Floyd Cooper - who won a Coretta Scott King Illustrators Award for his work on Joyce Carol Thomas's The Blacker the Berry: Poems - captures all the joy of Williams' simple narrative with his pastel illustrations. The cover illustration is probably my favorite, but the final spread, in which Dad and Gregory join hands to take a dip, is beautiful as well. All in all, a charming picture-book, perfect for a summertime read with young children!
    • 4/5
      Appealing father-son story set on the beach.
    • 3/5
      Alternate book for Tons of Fun in May 2010. The illustrations here are a little monotone for me. I like the story, but don't find the text to be particularly inspired. This would be best as a lapsit title for kids who prefer quiet tales, but would also work as a read-alone for beginning readers who are at the early fluency stage.
    • 4/5
      I think I like this story so much because it reminds me of my own behavior at the beach when I was a child.
    • 4/5
      This was a good book, it was a bit confusing and I had trouble understanding the meaning and the point of the story, but after reading it again, I was able to understand it and appreciate it. It is a great book and has great illustrations.
    • 4/5
      A young boy finds adventure during a trip to the beach. He draws a lion in the sand and the adventure begins as he draws the lion's long, long tail.
    • 5/5
      Good read aloud, good sounds, a boy draws a sea "lion" in the sand, then draws a long sandy tail, when he gets lost he follows the tail back to the lion and his dad.