BOOKS ABOUT SAILING
Title: Baby's Boat
Author: Titherington, Jeanne
Illustrator: Titherington, Jeanne
Publisher: Greenwillow
Year: 1992
Grade Level: Pre-S
Genre: P; PB
Description: A baby falls asleep while sailing out in a silver moon boat. Topics: Babies; Stories in Rhyme
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Title: Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent
Author: Peet, Bill
Illustrator: Peet, Bill
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Year: 1975
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: MF; PB
Description: Cyrus, a shy and friendly serpent, finally realizes his ambition when he rescues a sailing ship from squalls and pirates.
Topics: SeaMonsters
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Title: Follow the Dream
Author: Sis, Peter
Illustrator: Sis, Peter
Publisher: Knopf
Year: 1991
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: B; PB
Description: Christopher Columbus overcomes a number of obstacles to fulfill his dream of sailing west to find a new route to the Orient.
Topics: Columbus, Christopher; World Exploration -- Spanish
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Title: Sailing with the Wind
Author: Locker, Thomas
Illustrator: Locker, Thomas
Publisher: Dial
Year: 1986
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: CRF; PB
Description: A young gir] discovers the ocean's majestic character when she joins her uncle on a sailing trip.
Topics: Boating; Sea; Uncles
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Title: The Columbus Story
Author: Dalgliesh, Alice
lllustrator: Politi, Leo
Publisher: Scribuer's Sons
Year: 1955
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: B; PB
Description: Events in the life of Columbus, the Admiral, including his efforts to obtain ships and money to sail to the West, his first voyage, and his discovery of the New World.
Topics: Columbus, Christopher; World Exploration -- Spanish
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Title: Harbor
Author: Crews, Donald
Illustrator: Crews, Donald
Publisher: Greenwillow
Year: 1982
Grade Level: Pre-S
Genre: INF; PB
Description: Children name the harbor ships as they go in and out of the harbor.
Topics: Ships; Boating
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Title: The Heroine of the Titanic: A Tale Both True and Otherwise of the Life of Molly Brown
Author: Blos, Joan W.
Illustrator: Dixon, Tennessee
Publisher: Morrow
Year: 1991
Grade Level: 3-4
Genre: B; PB
Description: An anecdotal account of some of the adventurous activities of Molly Brown, with an emphasis on her survival of the sinking of the Titanic.
Topics: U.S., History; Brown, Margaret Tobin; Titanic; Ships; Travel; Boating
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Title: A King's Treasure: The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
Author: East, Katherine
Illustrator: Cohen, Dinah
Publisher: Kestrel
Year: 1982
Grade Level: 3-4
Genre: INF; PB
Description: The text and illustrations describe the excavation of the burial ground of a seventh-century king.
Topics: Ships
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Title: Salty Sails North
Author: Rand, Gloria
lllustrator: Rand, Ted
Publisher: Holt
Year: l990
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: CRF; PB
Description: Salty the dog and his master Zack sail north to Alaska, encountering other ships, a storm, wild animals on the shore, and an iceberg.
Topics: Boating; Alaska; Dogs
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Title: Sea Songs
Author: Livingston, Myra Cohn
Illustrator: Fisher, Leonard Everett
Publisher: Holiday House
Year: - 1986
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: P; PB
Description: Poetic images of cresting waves, mermaids, sunken ships, and other aspects of the sea.
Topics: American Poetry; Sea
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Title: Ship
Author: Macaulay, David
Illustrator: Macaulay, David
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Year: 1993
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: INF
Description: Describes wooden ships of the l5th century while following archaeologists as they uncover one lost in the Caribbean Sea.
Topics: Boating; Shipwrecks; Archaeology; Caribbean Sea
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Title: Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Man-of-War
Author: Platt, Richard
Illustrator: Biesty, Stephen
Publisher: Dorling-Kindersley
Year: 1993
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: INF
Description: Cutaway illustrations depict life aboard a British warship of the Napoleonic era, covering such topics as work, leisure, discipline, navigating, and fighting.
Topics: Great Britain, History; Ships; Sea; Travel
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