Zolotow, Charlotte. (1992). The Seashore Book. New York: HarperCollins.

This book begins with a boy who lives int he mountains. He has never seen the seashore, so he asks his mother to describe it to him. The mother takes the young boy and the reader on an imaginative journey to the seashore. She describes every visual and sense that the boy would experience while at the seashore. In the end, the boys opens his eyes feeling as if he really went to the seashore. The images and words used throughout this book is beautiful because it works to successfully describe the beauty one would experience at the seashore all without physically being there.
I loved this book for a visualizing lesson, which is attached:
I also thought that this book would be great to teach the senses since the mother describes different things the boy would see, hear, and feel.
The attached document also contains many activities/ vocabulary/ lessons one could implement. There are so many different things a teacher could do with this book, so I think it would be helpful to choose just one thing to focus on within this copious resource: http://www.doverpublications.com/images/pdf/048649408x_TM.pdf

Book cover