Age: Infant-Preschool
Family: Mother, daughter
Culture: Deaf

This will add a beautiful dimension to your collection. A mother and daughter go to the beach to enjoy the summer day, using their hands and fingers to interact with the world through touching and communicating. The illustrations are rich and full of movement and the sign-language diagrams are included next to the text. The diagrams use the characters, showing that they are communicating to each other in sign language.

This book provides good instruction for those that want to learn a few words in sign-language but the book accomplishes more than that; It provides an oft-not told story of a deaf child (or mother) where the focus is not on the disability but the story. However, the writing was stinted and had no real flow to it.