BOOKS ABOUT THE SEA
Title: At the Beach
Author: Dickens, Lucy
Illustrator: Dickens, Lucy
Publisher: Viking
Year: 1991
Grade Level: Pre-S
Genre: CRF; PB
Description: Bright board book conveys the special bond of sister and brother as they enjoy the funny and familiar routines of the day and the happy surprises of a world discovered together.
Topics: Sea; Beaches; Brothers and Sisters
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Title: The Black Horse
Author: Mayer, Marianna (reteller)
Illustrator: Thamer, Katie
Publisher: Dial
Year: 1984
Grade Level: 3-4
Genre: TF; PB
Description: A poor Irish prince wins the love of the Princess of the Mountains after helping her to escape the wicked Sea King with magical aid of a mysterious black horse.
Topics: Fairy Tales; Folklore -- Ireland; Horses
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Title: Blue Sea
Author: Kalan, Robert
Illustrator: Crews, Donald
Publisher: Greenwillow
Year: 1979
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: INF; PB
Description: Large illustrations of fish show size and spatial concepts.
Topics: Fish; Size; Space Perception
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Title: Call It Courage
Author: Sperry, Armstrong
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Publisher: Macrnillan
Year: 1940
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: CRF
Description: A Polynesian boy travels alone in an outrigger canoe to overcome his fear of the sea.
Topics: Folklore -- Polynesia; Fear; Sea
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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: A Day in the Life of a Marine Biologist
Author: Paige, David
Illustrator: Ruhlin, Roger (photographer)
Publisher: Troll Associates
Year: 1981
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: INF; PB
Description: Follows a day's activities of a marine biologist as she studies and takes care of sea animals at an oceanographic institute.
Topics: Scientists; Occupations
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Title: Deep-Sea Vents: Living Worlds Without Sun
Author: Waters, John F.
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Publisher: Cobblehill
Year: 1994
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: INF
Description: Describes scientists' explorations, findings, and speculations concerning life in underwater cracks of the earth's crust.
Topics: Sea; Earth; Geology
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Title: Do Not Open
Author: Turkle, Brinton
Illustrator: Turkle, Brinton
Publisher: Dutton
Year: 1981
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: MF; PB
Description: Miss Moody finds a bottle on the shore marked "Do Not Open".
Topics: Sea; Beaches; Cats; Magic
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Title: Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Norway
Author: Haviland, Virginia
Illustrator: Weisgard, Leonard
Publisher: Little, Brown
Year: 1961
Grade Level: 3-4
Genre: TF
Description: From Sir George Webb Dasent's translation of Asbjornsen and Moe's tales, such as "The Princess on the Glass Hill," "Why the Sea is Salt't, and "The Three Billy Goats Gruff."
Topics: Fairy Tales; Folklore -- Norway
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Title: From Sea to Shining Sea: A Treasury of American Folklore add Folk Songs
Author: Cohn, Amy L. (compiler)
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Publisher: Scholastic
Year: 1993
Grade Level: All
Genre: TF
Description: More than 140 folk songs, tales, poems, and stories tell the history of America and reflect its multicultural society, accompanied by illustrations from award-winning artists.
Topics: Folklore -- United States; Songs, Folk -- United States
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Title: Giants of Land, Sea & Air: Past & Present
Author: Peters, David
Illustrator: Peters, David
Publisher: Knopf/Sierra Club
Year: 1986
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: INF; PB
Description: Describes some of the largest animals, past and present, with fold-out pages.
Topics: Size; Toy and Movable Books; Prehistoric Life
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Title: If You Are a Hunter of Fossils
Author: Baylor, Byrd
lllustrator: Parnall, Peter
Publisher: Scribner's
Year: 1980
Grade Level: 3-4
Genre: INF; PB
Description: A fossil hunter looking for signs of an ancient sea in the rocks of a western Texas mountain describes how the area must have looked millions of years ago.
Topics: Geology; Fossils; Texas; Prehistoric Life
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Title: The Kingdom by the Sea
Author: Westall, Robert
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
Year: 1991
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: HF
Description: During World War II 12-year-old Harry and a stray dog travel through war-torn England in search of safety.
Topics: Great Britain, History -- World War II; Dogs
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Title: Lobsters: Gangsters of the Sea
Author: Cerullo, Mary M.
Illustrator: Rotman, Jeffrey L. (photographer)
Publisher: Cobblehil1
Year: - l994
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: INF
Description: Describes the anatomy, courtship, life cycle, and breeding of lobsters; includes the history and lore surrounding the trapping and marketing of the crustaceans.
Topics: Lobsters
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Author: Conrad, Pam
Illustrator: ~ Egielski, Richard
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 1992
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: CRF; PB
Description: A sailor famed for his seamanship and luck is shipwrecked on a tiny island, where his darkest hour gives rise to rescue and a new life.
Topics: Shipwrecks; Sea
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Title: Mariel of Redwall
Author: Jacques, Brian
Illustrator: Chalk, Gary
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1991
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: MF
Description: The mousemaid Mariel achieves victory at sea for the animals of Redwall Abbey, fighting the savage pirate rat Gabool the Wild, warlord of rodent corsairs.
Topics: Mice; Animals; Fantasy
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Title: Miss Rumphius
Author: Cooney, Barbara
Illustrator: Cooney, Barbara
Publisher: Viking
Year: 1982
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: CRF; PB
Description: As a child, Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful.
Topics: Great-aunts
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Title: OutsideoverThere
Author: Sendak, Maurice
Illustrator: Sendak, Maurice
Publisher: Harper & Row
Year: 1981
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: MF; PB
Description: With Papa at sea and Mama despondent, Ida must go outside over there to rescue her baby sister from goblins who steal her to be a goblin's bride.
Topics: Fantasy; Sisters
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Title: Over Sea, Under Stone
Author: Cooper, Susan
Illustrator: Gill, Margery
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Year: 1965
Grade Level: 7+
Genre: MF
Description: Three children find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for the Holy Grail and entraps them in the eternal battle between the forces of Light and Dark.
Topics: England; Fantasy
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Title: PaddyUnderWater
Author: Goodall, John
Illustrator: Goodall, John
Publisher: Atheneum
Year: 1984
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: MF; PB
Description: Paddy~s underwater adventures include rescuing a small sea monster from an octopus, meeting King Neptune, and following a pack of mermaids to find a treasure chest.
Topics: Toy and Movable Books; Pigs; Sea; Stories Without Words
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Title: Reflections
Author: Jonas, Ann
Illustrator: Jonas, Ann
Publisher: Greenwillow
Year: 1987
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: CRF; PB
Description: Chronicles a child's busy day by the sea, in a forest, and then home with the hope of going to a carnival or concert; illustrations change when the book is turned upside-down.
Topics: Toy and Movable Books
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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 girl 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 Samurai's Daughter: A Japanese Legend
Author: San Souci, Robert D. (adapter)
Illustrator: Johnson, Stephen T.
Publisher: Dial
Year: 1992
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: TF; PB
Description: The female heroine slays a sea monster to be reunited with her exiled father.
Topics: Folklore -- Japan; Samurai
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Title: Sarah and Me and the Lady from the Sea
Author: Beatty, Patricia
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Publisher: Morrow
Year: 1989
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: HF
Description: In the late 1800's, a family learns self-reliance after the father's business fails.
Topics: Seashore; Independence; Employment; Friendship
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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, mer~naids, sunken ships, and other aspects of the sea.
Topics: American Poetry; Sea
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Title: Seals
Author: Grace, Eric S.
Illustrator: Bruemmer, Fred (photographer)
Publisher: Sierra Club/Little, Brown
Year: 1991
Grade Level: 3-4
Genre: INF
Description: This book provides details about seals, sea lions, and walruses.
Topics: Seals; Sea Lions; Walruses; Marine Mammals
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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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Title: Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea
Author: Williams, Vera B.
Illustrator: Williams, Vera B. and Jennifer Williams
Publisher: Greenwillow
Year: 1988
Grade Level: A11
Genre: CRF
Description: Stringbean describes his trip to the west coast in a series of postcards.
Topics: Letters; Travel
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Author: San Souci, Robert D.
Illustrator: Pinkney, J. Brian
Publisher: Four Winds
Year: 1992
Grade Level: 3-4
Genre: TF; PB
Description: In this folktale with elements from West Africa, the Caribbean, and the Sea Islands of South Carolina, unhappy Sukey received kindness and wealth from Mama Jo the mermaid.
Topics: Mermaids; African Americans; FoLklore
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Title: Thy Friend, Obadiah
Author: Turkle, Brinton
Illustrator: Turkle, Brinton
Publisher: Viking
Year: 1969
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: EIF; PB
Description: Obadiah, a l9th-century Quaker boy, frees a trapped sea gull that has been following him and causing the other boys to tease him.
Topics: Religion -- Quakers; Friendship; Birds
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Title: Uncle Elephant
Author: Lobel, Arnold
Illustrator: Lobel, Arnold
Publisher: - Harper & Row
Year: 1981
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: MF; PB
Description: Uncle Elephant takes care of his nephew when the parents are lost at sea.
Topics: Elephants; Uncles
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Title: Under the Sea from A to Z
Author: Doubilet, Anne
Illustrator: Doubilet, David (photographer)
Publisher: Crown
Year: 1991
Grade Level: A11
Genre: INF; PB
Description: Photographs accompany information about aquatic life through the alphabet.
Topics: Marine Animals; Plants; English Language -- Alphabet
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Title: The Village by the Sea!
Author: Fox, Paula
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Publisher: Watts
Year: - 1988
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: CRF
Description: Sent to the seaside to stay with her aunt while her father undergoes surgery, Emma, feeling lonely and confused, creates her own magical world by the water's edge.
Topics: Beaches; Aunts
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Title: The Voyage of the Frog
Author: Paulsen, Gary
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Publisher: Orchard
Year: 1989
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: CRF
Description: When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own.
Topics: Survival; Uncles; Sea
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Title: The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill: Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Willard, Nancy
Illustrator: Provensen, Alice and Martin Provensen
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Year: 1987
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: P
Description: A poem inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's letters describes how Stevenson and his wife survived a stormy ocean voyage with a shipload of exotic animals.
Topics: Stevenson, Robert Louis; American Poetry; Sea
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Title: The Wheel on the School
Author: DeJong, Meindert
Illustrator: Sendak, Maurice
Publisher: Harper & Row
Year: 1954
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: [NF
Description: Children initiate efforts to bring storks to their home on the North Sea.
Topics: Storks; Nethedands
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Title: Where the Forest Meets the Sea
Author: Baker, Jeannie
Illustrator: Baker, Jeannie
Publisher: Greenwillow
Year: 1988
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: INF; PB
Description: On a camping trip in an Australian rain forest with his father, a young boy thinks about the history of the plant and animal life around him and wonders about their future.
Topics: Rain Forests; Australia
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Title: Where the Waves Break: Life at the Edge of the Sea
Author: Maloig, Anita
Illustrator: Rotman, Jeffrey L. (photographer)
Publisher: Carolrhoda
Year: 1985
Grade Level: 3-4
Genre: INF; PB
Description: Examines the various marine animals and plants found along the edge of the sea.
Topics: Sea; Animals; Plants
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Title: The Wild Baby Goes to Sea
Author: Lindgren, Barbro
Illustrator: Eriksson, Eva
Publisher: Greenwillow
Year: 1983
Grade Level: Pre-S
Genre: MF; PB
Description: Adapted from the Swedish by Jack Prelutsky, while his mother cleans house, rarnbunctious baby Ben sets sail in a wooden box and has many adventures.
Topics: Mothers and Sons; Stories in Rhyme
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Title: WorldWaterWatch
Author: Koch, Michelle
Illustrator: Koch, Michelle
Publisher: Greenwillow
Year: 1993
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: INF; PB
Description: Briefly describes some of the dangers caused mainly by human beings for such animals as: otters, sea turtles, seals, penguins, polar bears, and whales.
Topics: Marine Mammals; Reptiles; Water Birds; Wildlife Conservation; Ecology
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Title: The Wretched Stone
Author: Van Allsburg, Chris
Illustrator: Van Allsburg, Chris
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Year: -199 1
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: MF; PB
Description: A glowing stone has a terrible effect on a ship's crew.
Topics: Sea
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