This was sweet. I loved that the story centered around a young girl and her grandmother spending a slow day at the beach together. Through genuine curiosity and childlike wonder, we learn about sea creatures along with Kya and her nana. I loved the relationship you could tell these two had and feel the love for each other that they showed through their interactions.

Hmmm… A girl called Kya goes to the seashore with her kelp-harvesting gran as she's bored, and gets some most unlikely biology lessons, the end. This has merit in that it tells us why some things are the way they are, and proves that a day that seems a dull and boring one can easily turn into the complete opposite. But I never really believed the interaction between the girl and walking encyclopaedia that is her nan, and so the whole idea of Kya being won over by what happens at the beach just seemed implausible. This is quite pretty, and learned, and means well, but is probably too didactic to be actual fun to read. Two and a half stars, rounded up for the visuals.