Want to read something different? You're not limited to the books on this list—ask the children's librarian at your Enoch Pratt Free Library branch for a recommendation!
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Read to Me
- "Hooray for Fish!" by Lucy Cousins
- "Puffin Peter" by Petr Horáček
- "Breathe" by Scott Magoon
- "Following Papa's Song" by Gianna Marino
- "Hello Ocean | Hola mar" by Pam Muñoz Ryan
- "Anywhere Farm" by Phyllis Root
- "Thank You, Earth" by April Pulley Sayre
- "I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean" by Kevin Sherry
- "Octopus Alone" by Divya Srinivasan
- "Bring On the Birds" by Susan Stockdale
Read Together
- "My Visit to the Aquarium" by Aliki
- "Agua, Agüita | Water, Little Water" by Jorge Tetl Argueta
- "Galapágos Girl | Galapagueña" by Marsha Diane Arnold
- "Stellaluna" by Janell Cannon
- "Mister Seahorse" by Eric Carle
- "Turtle Pond" by James Gladstone
- "The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just" by Mélina Mangal
- "The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs" by Kate Messner
- "The Earth Book" by Todd Parr
- "The Water Princess" by Susan Verde
Read on My Own
- "Baby Dolphin's First Swim" by American Museum of Natural History
- "Coral Reefs" by Jason Chin
- "Flying Deep: Climb Inside Deep-Sea Submersible Alvin" by Michelle Cusolito
- "¡Olinguito, de la A a la Z!: Descubriendo el bosque nublado | Olinguito, from A to Z!: Unveiling the Cloud Forest" by Lulu Delacre
- "A Frog's Life" by Irene Kelly
- "Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle" by Claire A. Nivola
- "One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia" by Miranda Paul
- "High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs" by Lisa Kahn Schnell
- "Sea Creatures" by Seymour Simon
- "Spring After Spring: How Rachel Carson Inspired the Environmental Movement" by Stephanie Roth Sisson
Read for a Challenge
- "Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor" by Robert Burleigh
- "How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming" by Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch
- "What a Waste! Where Does Garbage Go?" by Claire Eamer
- "Science Comics: Sharks: Nature's Perfect Hunter" by Joe Flood
- "Eye to Eye: How Animals See the World" by Steve Jenkins
- "Octopuses! Strange and Wonderful" by Laurence Pringle
- "Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere" by Barb Rosenstock
- "Waterman's Boy" OR "Suspenso en la bahía" by Susan Sharpe
- "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
- "One Well: The Story of Water on Earth" by Rochelle Strauss
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