"Duck wants to go on an adventure. Goose doesn't. He doesn't see the point. After all, why would they go anywhere when they're happy right where they are? But then Goose sees the ocean and loves it. Who doesn't? Well, Duck, for one"--

Illustrations and rhyming text follow a family spending a day at the beach, building sandcastles, playing in the waves, and hunting for seashells.

Determined to build "the biggest, fanciest, most excellent sandcastle" to impress her sister, Jules is foiled again and again by the ocean.

Big Brown Bear and the four little bears have fun at the beach, filling their buckets with water and building a sandcastle.

"Zoom Squirrel and the Squirrel pals are looking forward to going to the beach"--

Twelve-year-old Dash and his best friend Lily are spending the summer at Black Sand Beach, where Dash's family has a house. But from the beginning, nothing is as it seems. The beach house is a shack, and Dash's weird relatives are there. And more alarming is the zombie ram that crashes through the front yard... and the ghosts that call out to Dash from the lighthouse.