Stella the Starfish, Hardcover/Shaun Rawls

Stella the Starfish is a beautifully written and illustrated children's picture book. Stella the Starfish lives in the ocean with her family. Stella becomes very curious about all of the things that are up on the shore, after learning about them from her teacher. She comes home from school and asks her mom when they can go see all the things she learned about, but her mother insists that Stella can never go to the shore because of how mean the humans are to starfish. The next morning Stella decides to go to the shore, rather than going to school. Her decision becomes an unexpected adventure, but will it be everything she hoped it would be?