The Sand Castle Contest by Robert Munsch

Just like other Robert Munsch books I thought this book was very cute and funny for young readers. My favorite part throughout the whole book are tehse four little squirrles that are on every picture. They get ready to go camping, drive their own trailer full of things, go to the beach, build sand castles, and eat the ice cream. I also enjoyed the part where Matthew builds a sand castle that looks exactly like a house but the judges don't believe him that is an actual house. They tell Matthew that he needs to get the house off the beach as fast as possible but the judges didn't listen to him. Finally Matthew kicked down the house and showed the judges that it was built out of sand. Then he won the contest and got a bathtub full of ice cream (mostly every kids dream).

At first I didn't understand why the beginning of the book had to do with a dog the family didn't have but it really tied into the ending well. I learned that Kalita's sand dog also played a part that tied into the beginning of the book. It was a very clever idea.