The trucks of Trucktown count from 1 to 10 using sandcastles.

Matthew enters a contest at the beach and builds an unbelievable sand castle.

"When Matthew enters a contest at the beach, he builds an amazing, incredible, unbelievable sand castle!"--Cover back.

Holly Hobbie, her family, and friends go to the beach for the Brightside Beach Sand Castle Contest.

While out on the beach, my children, Cory (age 7) and Randi-Kiana(age 3), and I had been building a sand castle all day. When the tide started coming in, I told them we had to go because the ocean was coming up the beach. My little girl, Randi-Kiana, started screaming at the ocean and kicking and hitting the waves with her tiny feet and hands. In order to distract her so I could move her up the beach, I came up with a story about a prince and his sand castles. The children came up with the names of the characters of this story, so it makes it part theirs as well.

Linny and his siblings are beach kids. They live near the beach, and they spend every day in the sand building sand castles. Every year, their town has a sandcastle contest. The siblings have never gotten first place, but this year they have something up their sleeve that might help them win.

As her friends in the Critter Club animal shelter care for colorful aquarium fish, second-grader Liz and her family spend a long weekend at the beach, where Liz rescues a baby octopus and competes with an unfriendly young neighbor in a sand castle contest.