King of the Castle

When a creative young boy goes to the beach, he sees it as a blank canvas for imagination and adventure. What starts as a sand castle becomes much, much more...

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"The power of imagination is given a refreshing treatment in Ruá’s disarmingly simple story of a child’s trip to the beach. While Guridi's illustrations tell us what is reality (down to sunscreen bottle!), the text takes us into the creative mind of the boy (it’s magic cream, applied by a witch), turning a day at the shore into a grand adventure."--Art of the Picture Book