Beaches and Oceans
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Beach and Ocean-Themed Reading List
Our Top Picks
Baby-Preschool (Baby-Age 3)
- Corduroy Goes to the Beach
by Don Freeman
- Five Fish!
by Fiona McMillan
- Hooray for Fish!
by Lucy Cousins
- Magic Beach
by Alison Lester
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
by Dr. Seuss
- Wet Pet, Dry Pet, Your Pet, My Pet
by Dr. Seuss
Preschool-Grade 2 (Ages 4-8)
- 47 Beavers On the Big Blue Sea
by Phil Vischer
- A Fish Out of Water
by Helen Palmer
- A House for Hermit Crab (The World of Eric Carle)
by Eric Carle
- Baby Beluga (Raffi Songs to Read)
by Raffi
- Baby Turtle's Tale
by Elle McGuiness
- Bats at the Beach
by Brian Lies
- Beach
by Elisha Cooper
- Beach Day
by Karen Roosa
- Big Al
by Andrew Clements
- Clam-I-Am!: All About the Beach (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library)
by Tish Rabe
- Commotion in the Ocean
by Giles Andreae
- Dear Fish
by Chris Gall
- Dory Story
by Jerry Pallota
- Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea
by Steve Jenkins
- Down to the Sea with Mr. Magee
by Chris Van Dusen
- Fish Is Fish
by Leo Lionni
- Flotsam
by David Wiesner
- Harry by the Sea
by Gene Zion
- Hello Ocean
by Pam Munoz Ryan
- I'm The Biggest Thing in the Ocean
by Kevin Sherry
- Into the Sea
by Brenda Guiberson
- Mister Seahorse
by Eric Carle
- Ocean Life From A to Z Book and DVD
by Cynthia Stierle
- One Tiny Turtle
by Nicola Davies
- Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef
by Marianne Berkes
- Sally Goes to the Beach
by Stephen Huneck
- Swimmy
by Leo Lionni
- The Little Island
by Margaret Wise Brown
- The Pout-Pout Fish
by Deborah Diesen
- The Seashore Book
by Charlotte Zolotov
- The Snail and the Whale
by Julia Donaldson
- Three Little Fish And The Big Bad Shark
by Will Grace
- Toy Boat
by Randall DeSeve
- Wave
by Suzy Lee
- Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea
by Jan Peck
- Wish for a Fish: All About Sea Creatures (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library)
by Bonnie Worth
- What Lives in a Shell?
by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Grade 3-6 (Age 9-12)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Great Illustrated Classics)
by Jules Verne
- Isabel of the Whales
by Hester Velmans
- Moby-Dick: A Pop-Up Book
by Sam Ita
- Ocean (American Museum of Natural History)
by Robert Dinwiddie
- Olive's Ocean
by Kevin Henkes
- Paddle-to-the-Sea
by Holling C. Holling
- Science in Seconds at the Beach: Exciting Experiments You Can Do in Ten Minutes or Less
by Jean Potter
- The Music of Dolphins
by Karen Hesse
- The Wanderer
by Sharon Creech
Young Adult (Age 12 and Up)
- Moby-Dick: or, The Whale(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Herman Melville
- Robinson Crusoe (Enriched Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
- The Great Wide Sea
by M.H. Herlong
- The Old Man and The Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
- The Pearl (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
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