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
- "One Day On Our Blue Planet … In the Ocean" by Ella Bailey
- "Rainforest" by Julia Groves
- "Puffin Peter" by Petr Horáček
- "All the Water in the World" by George Ella Lyon
- "Following Papa's Song" by Gianna Marino
- "Life in a Coral Reef" by Wendy Pfeffer
- "En el mar" by Roger Priddy
- "Anywhere Farm" by Phyllis Root
- "Octopus Alone" by Divya Srinivasan
- "Hello Humpback!" by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd
Read Together
- "My Visit to the Aquarium" by Aliki
- "Sea Creatures from the Sky" by Ricardo Cortés
- "Turtle Pond" by James Gladstone
- "Water Land: Land and Water Forms Around the World" by Christy Hale
- "Hello Ocean | Hola mar" by Pam Muñoz Ryan
- "The Earth Book" by Todd Parr
- "Ana and the Sea Star" by R. Lynne Roelfs
- "About Fish | Sobre los peces" by Cathryn Sill
- "About Habitats: Seashores" by Cathryn Sill
- "The Big Book of the Blue" by Yuval Zommer
Read on My Own
- "Moonlight Crab Count" OR "Contando los cangrejos herradura a la luz de la luna" by Dr. Neeti Bathala and Jennifer Keats Curtis
- "Flying Deep: Climb Inside Deep-Sea Submersible Alvin" by Michelle Cusolito
- "Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth" by Nicola Davies
- "The Truth About Dolphins: Seriously Funny Facts About Your Favorite Animals" by Maxwell Eaton III
- "Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist" by Jess Keating
- "Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years" by Stacy McAnulty
- "I Am the Rain" by John Paterson
- "One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia" by Miranda Paul
- "The Secret Pool" by Kimberly Ridley
- "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
- "Dolphins: Voices in the Ocean" by Susan Casey
- "How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming" by Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch
- "Sharkpedia" by DK
- "The Orca Scientists" by Kim Perez Valice
- "Sea Slime: It's Eeuwy, Gooey and Under the Sea" OR "Mucosa marina: Es Pegajosa, Asquerosa Y En El Océano … Fabulosa" by Ellen Prager
- "Octopuses!: Strange and Wonderful" by Laurence Pringle
- "The Secret Bay" by Kimberly Ridley
- "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
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