Do You Remember the Summer Before? (#2 Black Sand Beach)

Author(s): Richard Fairgray

General Graphic Books | NZ Middle Fiction

The second book in the Black Sand Beach series that Betsy Bird called "one of the highly anticipated graphic novels of 2020."


Dash and his crew might have found the source of the evil at Black Sand Beach in the haunted lighthouse. But at the end of Book 1, Lily reveals that she found Dash's journal in the lighthouse. It describes Dash's trip to Black Sand Beach the previous summer, only Dash doesn't recognize the journal or have any memory of being there.


The main story shows the kids reading the journal out loud, as we see flashbacks of Dash's terrifying encounter with two ghost girls, one truly terrifying monster, and a life changing event for Dash. The two interstitial stories are about the creepy Molchuk neighbors, and a Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf-like story about the parents going crazy on each other.

PUBLICATION JULY 2021


Product Information

Richard Fairgray is a writer, artist, and colorist, best known for his work in comic books such as Blastosaurus and Ghost Ghost, and picture books such as Gorillas In Our Midst, My Grandpa Is a Dinosaur, and If I Had an Elephant. As a child he firmly believed he would grow up and eat all the candy he wanted and stay up as late as he liked. By drawing pictures when he wasn't meant to and reading all the things people told him not to, he has made his dream come true.

Richard splits his time between Los Angeles and Surrey, British Columbia, where he is able to work furiously, surrounded by plastic skeletons, dogs, friends, loved ones (and possibly the most comprehensive collection of Courtney Love bootlegs on the planet).

General Fields

  • : 9781645950035
  • : Holiday House, Incorporated
  • : Holiday House, Incorporated
  • : 0.413676
  • : May 2021
  • : .44 Inches X 6.04 Inches X 9.17 Inches
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Richard Fairgray
  • : paperback
  • : English
  • : 741.5
  • : 192