If I love anything if life, it would be the ocean, so I immediately fell in love with this book. It’s very simple and beautiful. In my humble opinion it will be a great book to teach during ELA class. The pictures are just amazing. Also there is a hint about the location of the author, that can only be figured out, if you read the book. I won’t spell the beans, if you want to know it, you have to read it. ( )

This book goes through the life of a young girl living along the seaside and everything she gets to do. She describes everything from the sparkling water to the treasures she finds in the sun-warmed sand. All of this is done through verse repeating the phrase “where I live” on every other page. This gave the words a very smooth flow and an almost relaxing cadence. Overall I think this would be a good book for a classroom of students to read. ( )

I think this book is cute. It doesn't have *much* of a takeaway, but it *could* potentially be a good book to introduce an aquatic science unit or something of that sort.
The language that is used through is calm and easy to follow. Specifically on pages 1 and 2, it says, "sunbeams sparkl[ing] like diamonds on water". The illustration also perfectly represents the text. This figurative language allows students to explore and make connections with what they are reading. The illustrations definitely enhance the story and encourage the calming mood of the story. For example, I also like how on the last page there is an illustration of a girl writing, and the text says, "Where I live... the SEASIDE". It gives the reader closure of exactly where it is that she lives and ties the whole story together.
There isn't much of a plot to the story, it is kind of just information thrown at you- so that's a small fault I saw in this writing. I feel this was intentional for the kind of story that it is, but it kind of bored me in a respect. At the same time, the pace of the story was good. The ideas were well organized, on each and every page, but just very broad and open to interpretation.
The big idea or message that can be taken from this book is the idea to respect where people come from. It is important to be open minded to the way they do things/ and why they do them in that way. Everybody lives their life by their own terms and it's important to be knowledgable and mindful of where other people come from. ( )

I really enjoyed this poetry book. From the amazing artwork to the secret spelling out of the answer of where the author lives, the author did an amazing job. I would read this to my classroom. It makes me want to go play out in the water. It was an amazing read. ( )

This is a nice scaffold for a piece of poetry. I could teach with this. It's extremely short, but it's so multi-layered. The simple repetition of one line at the end of each stanza, plus the underscored acrostic sketch is so easy not to notice. Thank goodness they tell you its there if you bother to read the back cover. This book is very well done. ( )