A kids' story unfolds without words in 'A Day For Sandcastles'
Three siblings spend a summer day at the beach building sandcastles and watching them get demolished in a wordless picture book written by JonArno Lawson and illustrated by Qin Leng.
About 10 years ago, JonArno Lawson was at a beach in Virginia watching his kids build sandcastles right next to the waves.
"I kept trying to get them to come back because I thought it was a terrible idea," he says. He wanted them to build their sandcastles closer to the dunes. But they found it more exciting to build right where the waves hit, seeing their sandcastles get destroyed, and then re-building them with whatever debris washed up from the ocean.
"It seemed so symbolic, somehow, of... how life works more than
