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

Illustrator:

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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Title: The Lost Sailor

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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Title: Sukey and the Mermaid

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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