There is an eight-story rosy-pink castle standing on a Florida beach — and the story of how it got there is stranger and cleverer than it looks. Join Miss Cam, Nate, and Emma at the Don CeSar, the hotel their family stops at for candy and ice cream. Curious kids will find out how builders in 1924 solved an impossible problem — how do you put an eight-story castle on soft sand without it sinking? — and meet Thomas Rowe, who named the whole thing after Don Cesar — the penniless nobleman from William Vincent Wallace's 1845 opera Maritana, who gets into enormous trouble for defending a boy nobody else would stand up for. Along the way: the movie stars, writers, ballplayers, and at least seven U.S. presidents who have slept there, the famous films shot in its halls, the years it healed soldiers during World War Two, and the day the neighbors refused t ...