Enjoy A Day At The Beach Conveyed By Ed Briant Listed As Softcover

this book! The art is fantasticD, and the story is quirky and sweet, This was read at story time to go along with the summer water theme, I wasn't too found of this one, A father takes his two kids to the beach, but they keep forgetting important items, like swim suits, The father keeps bring the kids home to get what they need, and in the end he brings all these silly extra things, too, I disliked how ridiculous the father was in this book, It didn't come off as being funny or silly, I'm pretty sure that if there was a "least GREEN" contest, this book would win the prize! The illustrations are really wonderful and the plot is fun.
The kids can "read along" at parts which are predictable, building their skills of prediction within stories, What a perfect day! The ocean is sparkling in the sun, and Alice B, and Baxter want to dive right in, . . but they don't have their swimsuits,

Or their goggles,

Or anything else,

Luckily for them, they do have Dad, He has just what they need to make their day at the beach the best ever! Very cute illustrations: the panda family and other creatures were created out of clay and wire the sets created out of cardboard, wire, and glue, then everything was painted in acrylics.
Also, a cute, humorous story with an incredibly patient Dad, Predictable story that little ones enjoy repeating, The whole time I was reading this, I was annoyed with these kids and also with the father for not just grabbing everything the first time they drove out to the beach.
Who takes kids to the beach without even bringing swim suits! I'm also not a fan of the claymation style of illustration, My kids love hearing this book because the panda dad has to keep driving home to get things they forgot, To kids this is funny! Really Ed Briant is an author, illustrator, and sequential artist, living and working near Philadelphia, Eds mother had always wanted him to become a dentist, Eds father had his heart set on Ed becoming an accountant, Not wanting to disappoint either of his parents Ed chose to compromise, believing that a career as an illustrator would combine the thrill of oral examinations with the glamor of adding up long columns of figures.
In the end being an illustrator proved to be like being a fireman, The phone would ring, Ed would leap on his bike, and ride as fast as he could to the offices of The Times, or Vogue, or The Guardian.
Once there he would be commanded to produce a minor work of art in barely time than it took to scratch his head, m Ed Briant is an author, illustrator, and sequential artist, living and working near Philadelphia.
Eds mother had always wanted him to become a dentist, Eds father had his heart set on Ed becoming an accountant, Not wanting to disappoint either of his parents Ed chose to compromise, believing that a career as an illustrator would combine the thrill of oral examinations with the glamor of adding up long columns of figures.
In the end being an illustrator proved to be like being a fireman, The phone would ring, Ed would leap on his bike, and ride as fast as he could to the offices of The Times, or Vogue,

or The Guardian.
Once there he would be commanded to produce a minor work of art in barely time than it took to scratch his head, make a mug of tea, and sharpen a pencil.
One afternoon the phone rang and it was Glamor magazine in New York, This time Ed left his mug of tea untouched and his pencils unsharpened, He left his bike locked to the railings outside the British Museum and for once he took public transport, A few hours later Ed found himself scratching his head, making tea, and sharpening pencils in a tiny room on New Yorks Westth Street, But even here the phone continued to ring, This time the callers were from Premiere, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Pentagram, and many others, A decade and many hundreds of illustrations later Ed found himself yearning for something a little long term, What would it be like to spend than an hour on a piece of artStill in New York, Ed began frequenting dingy bars late into the night.
Finally after many monthsand far too many CosmopolitansEd met up with Neal Porter of Roaring Brook Press, Plots were hatched, book deals were signed, and Ed embarked on a new career as an author illustrator of picture books and comics, Now Ed can spend weeks on a single illustration, He can spend days merely scratching his head and making tea while he dreams up the perfect concept, but every now and again he still casts his mind back to his days as an illustrator fireman.
There really was a kind of thrill and glamor in the frenetic world of editorial illustration, Could he ever go back to it Would he even have the energy nowAfter all, his bike is still chained up outside the British Museum, sitelink.