This stumper is a children’s picture book that I think was published either in the late 80’s or the early 90’s.  I live in Australia, and I’m afraid I don’t know if it was an Australian book or not.  If it is I suspect it will make it even more difficult to solve!
I originally thought the title was “Lucy’s Beach”, but I’m obviously wrong about the name because I have not been able to find any record of it.  I am pretty sure it’s a girl’s name followed by the word “beach”.  I don’t know who the author is.
The story began with the main character, a young boy, in the kitchen at his house with his family.  The weather is good, and he comes to the decision that today he will cross the red cliffs to the beach.  His family listens to his announcement very seriously.  You got the sense that it was an important thing the boy was doing, and that it’s the first time since some kind of significant event that he was returning.
He leaves the house and crosses the cliffs.  He navigates the narrow ledges of the red cliffs and finally arrives at the beach.  He searches in the beach until he finds a stone covered by the sand, not red like the cliffs, but flat, smooth and polished.  It has a name engraved in the top of it.
Finding the stone makes him remember playing at the beach before with his younger sister, and the boy remembers his parents telling him to watch his sister in the water to keep her safe.  I think he got distracted playing his own games, and his little sister ended up drowning.  The stone is a memorial marker for her.  He lifts up the stone and finds a compartment with some kind of plant or flower seeds.  He removes the seeds from the box and blows them into the wind, and they rise up above the towering red cliffs.
I think that’s pretty much the end of the story.  Pretty sad for kid’s picture book.  I really hope you can help me solve the mystery of this stumper!  I’m certainly looking forward to hearing from you.

In the early 1970s, as a kid, I came across an extraordinary cloth-bound picture book: The story of a girl from another planet–a girl whose hair is made of actual gold. She is befriended by a young Earth boy who learns her secret, and tries to help her get away from bad guys who want to lock her up and harvest her hair.
The illustrations were photographs (or else very photo-realistic drawings).
I was fascinated by this little sci-fi tale. Years later I went back looking for it, and it was long gone.
I suspect it was not a new book even in the early 70s. It had the wear and tear of something that had been in circulation for years.
I would be grateful and astonished if you can find a title and author for this book!

I am looking for one of my childhood favorites from the 80s possibly 90s. It’s a picture book about a highway that always takes a family to the city (I think) for their summer vacation. One summer the highway decides to take them to the beach because the highway wants a vacation. The pictures that stand out in my mind are of a road twisting and turning, bumping a family to the beach. The road ends up in the waves of the ocean at a crowded beach. I feel like the title is something like Highway 101 Goes to the Ocean.

I’m pretty certain it was published before 90’s.  As I remember each page spread was devoted to a wacky nonsense invention with rhyming description(I believe they were tongue twisters as well) and was illustrated showing the invention.  I think there was an invention for each letter.