I don't get this book. We will study it in my picture book class and maybe it will make more sense then, but for now, neither myself nor my daughter have any idea what's going on. It seems that a mother, father, and daughter have gone to the beach. On one side of the two-page spread, the parents are pictured giving idle warnings to their daughter. On the other side, the daughter is off fighting pirates and finding buried treasure. Either this book is a fantasy and she actually went off in a boat and fought pirates, or she's imagining the whole thing (which I think is more likely). This book, like Rosie's Walk, has a different story in the words than the pictures portray. It is also like Where the Wild Things Are in the way Shirley's imagination takes over. It's an interesting book but not one of my favorites. Maybe it will be more fun once I learn about it in class.