SuitabookThe sandcastle that Lola built
Megan Maynor
- Reading
- Pause after each new helper joins and ask what role they might take. After the wave, discuss what can be salvaged and whether rebuilding, remembering or moving on seems most important.
- Themes
- Making room for others: Lola recruits the boy, the toddler and other helpers into different parts of the sandcastle project after the boy steps on the castle and the toddler digs close to its walls. The book presents this favourably.
- Responding to impermanence: The completed or developing sandcastle is threatened by a wave, and the new friends attempt to salvage it. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The story includes accidental damage to Lola’s sandcastle and its later washing away by a wave. The emotional weight of these setbacks and the ending’s tone are not clear.