By Kevin Henkes, Illustrated by Laura Dronzek ( Greenwillow Books – 2022 )

When a girl visits her grandparents at the beach, she stays in a little housel. Every morning, she and her grandma looks for empty shells, and grandma reminds her that the shells are little house. And that gets the girl thinking, and her imagination grows widely and deeply. Her grandpa says ” The world is so big and there is so mulch to know. And someday you’ll know it all”. So she thinks everything she doesn’t know. But one thing she knows is that she will take some little houses back to her house.

少女が祖父母を尋ねた時、海辺の小さな家に滞在した。毎朝、祖母と少女は貝殻を海岸で拾った。祖母が貝殻は小さな家であると言ったことにより、少女は色々と考えを巡らし、彼女の想像力はどんどん広がっていった。祖父は「世界は広く、学び知ることが山ほどある。いつかお前はそれを成し遂げるさ。」そして少女は多くの未知なることに考えが巡ったが、一つ確かなことは貝殻の小さな家を自分の家に持ち帰ることだった。