Table of Contents

• 1: Where on Earth are coasts?
• 2: Why are coasts so wiggly?
• 3: Where are the world's biggest waves?
• 4: What makes the tide go in and out?
• 5: Where is the world's longest beach?
• 6: Where can you find a giant spit?
• 7: What happens when a river meets the sea?
• 8: Where are the world's highest cliffs?
• 9: Can islands appear from nowhere?
• 10: Which coastal creatures can you see from space?
• 11: Which coast is home to killer tigers?
• 12: Could the sea swamp a whole city?

About the Author

Susie Brooks is an award-winning writer and editor of children's books. Writing on a wide range of subjects from dinosaurs to geography, she also masquerades as an artist (among other things, painting children's portraits and getting messy in classroom workshops!). In 2014, her Get into Art series won the English Association Picture Book Award, British Book Design and Production Award and the overall SLA Information Book Award. She can regularly be found walking people's dogs and in her spare time, loves to travel and explore new places! She has trekked through jungles, climbed volcanoes, abseiled down cliffs and fished for piranhas (AND still has all her fingers).