The sun is out so Zoe and Beans and best friend Oscar are off on a trip to the seaside. They've got buckets and spades and they're ready to search for buried pirate treasure! But digging is hard work and treasure is hard to find. It looks like it's up to clever Beans to sniff some out...

A new story from the unstoppable Zoe and Beans and a perfect summer read, ideal for families off on a beach holiday - and any small pirates! Children will love joining in the hunt for pirate treasure in this sunny, fun-filled seaside story from the best-selling Chloe and Mick Inkpen, a star father and daughter duo.

For more information, plus games and activities, visit the interactive website: zoeandbeans.com

This book is part of a book series called Zoe And Beans .

This book has been graded for interest at 3+ years.

This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2014 by Pan Macmillan .

Chloe Inkpen is a Children's Picture Book Author and Illustrator and the co-creator of the Zoe and Beans series alongside her father Mick Inkpen. Mick Inkpen was born in Romford in 1952 and still lives in Essex with his wife Debbie and their two children. Mick is one of the most popular author/illustrators in the world, his stories have been translated into over twenty different languages and his books have sold over 4 million copies. Kipper, perhaps his most popular character of all, is now the star of his very own TV series while Wibbly Pig, Penguin Small and Threadbear continue to delight young readers - and their parents! He began his career as a graphic designer, declining a place to study English at Cambridge University. During this period he worked with Nick Butterworth, a fellow children's author, from whom he learned design and typography. Together they developed a cartoon strip for the Sunday Express magazine, later to become a first series of children's picture books. They also worked in children's television. In 1989 The Blue Balloon established him as a truly original voice in children's picture books, by which time Mick and his wife Debbie had two children of their own. "Without the experience of having children of my own I doubt that I would have been capable of writing effectively for children. And yet it's true that good work really springs from trying to please yourself". Mick has won numerous awards world-wide including The British Book Award for Penguin Small, The British Book Award for the best illustrated book, for Lullabyhullabaloo, The Children's Book Award for Threadbear, The Parents and Munch Bunch Play and Learn Award and The Right Start Petit Filous Best Toy Award for Where, Oh Where is Kipper's Bear? Kipper won a BAFTA for best animated children's film in 1998, and Kipper's A to Z won the silver medal in the 2001 Smarties Prize. For most of Mick Inkpen's published work he is both author and illustrator.