She types 'big wave ' a big wave comes by and washes the crab away, and then she types, 'the end,' and then they all find themselves standing in their beach clothes with their shoes and jackets off in front of the carousel on the street looking at a typewriter. She types in the word, 'crab,' and this giant crab, about ten feet tall, comes and starts menacing them for some unknown reason, stepping on the beach ball. Someone types the words, 'ice cream' and this massive amount of ice cream appears in a giant bucket.

Someone types the word 'ball,' and there's a ball. The girl just happens to have some paper in her backpack and she puts it in the typewriter and types the word 'beach.' Then, suddenly, they're on a beach. The carousel is closed, but one of the animals in the carousel is a bee, and on the back of the bee is a box and inside the box is a typewriter. They find a carousel in the middle of the street and they approach it. They're bicycling in what appears to a street that's been cleaned with snow on the edges. The main characters are three kids on bicycles, two boys (one of the boys looks Asian, and one of the boys looks white) and a black girl (of course she's in the pink with a pink helmet and a pink bike).

That's what happens when you ignore convention: you confuse the average reader, but critics who are bored by the usual think it's amazing and groundbreaking. It took me a while to figure out whether that was actually the first page or if it was like a preview of what I was about to see and then the title page was going to come after it, but, nope, that's the first page. There's no title page on the first page there's just three rows, comic-style, of things that are happening: kids come up on bicycles, see a carousel and see that it's closed, and then this full-page-width strip of the girl's eyes just being amazed. 'Oh my god, a typewriter! I've never seen one of those before! This is the best day of my life!'

The typewriter bill thomson