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Clifford The Big Red Dog: The Missing Beach Ball

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This is another title from the Clifford the Big Red Dog series. The books, of which I have seen a few other titles, always have an upbeat mood even when one of the characters has a problem. This text features Clifford, as usual, dominating the illustrations with his massive size. In some of the books he frightens people around him save for the child who owns him.
In this particular tale Clifford and his two little dog friends Cleo and T-Bone resolve to spend a warm day at the beach but they lose one of their toys--a beach ball.
The ultimate moral lesson being communicated in this story is to be altruistic enough to give away a toy to somebody lacking one out of a spirit of generosity if the child has others at home. However, this may not be a realistic goal for small children, who have an inclination to be self-centered at their early age.