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
- "Chesapeake ABC" by Priscilla Cummings
- "Puffin Peter" by Petr Horáček
- "All the Water in the World" by 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
- "Swallow the Leader" by Kevin Sherry
- "Octopus Alone" by Divya Srinivasan
- "Bring on the Birds" by Susan Stockdale
Read Together
- "My Visit to the Aquarium" by Aliki
- "Glow: Animals with Their Own Night-Lights" by W.H. Beck
- "Stellaluna" by Janell Cannon
- "Mister Seahorse" by Eric Carle
- "Turtles in My Sandbox" OR "Las tortugas en mi cajón de arena" by Jennifer Keats Curtis
- "Frog Song" by Brenda Z. Guiberson
- "The Earth Book" by Todd Parr
- "Hello Ocean | Hola mar" by Pam Muñoz Ryan
- "A Bird is a Bird" by Lizzy Rockwell
- "Flotsam" by David Wiesner
Read on My Own
- "Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau" by Jennifer Berne
- "Coral Reefs" by Jason Chin
- "Follow the Moon Home" by Phillipe Cousteau and Deborah Hopkinson
- "Moonlight Crab Count" OR "Contando los cangrejos herradura a la luz de la luna" by Dr. Neeti Bathala and Jennifer Keats Curtis
- "¡Olinguito, de la A a la Z! : descubriendo el bosque nublado | Olinguito, from A to Z! : Unveiling the Cloud Forest" by Lulu Delacre
- "A Day in the Salt Marsh" OR "Un día en la marisma salada" by Kevin Kurtz
- "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
- "What Happens to Our Trash" by D.J. Ward
- "If Sharks Disappeared" by Lily Williams
Read for a Challenge
- "Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor" by Robert Burleigh
- "Coral Reefs" by Gail Gibbons
- "Sea Slime" OR "Mucosa marina" by Ellen Prager
- "Waterman's Boy" OR "Suspenso en la bahía" by Susan Sharpe
- "The Secret Bay" by Kimberly Ridley
- "Science Comics: Coral Reefs: Cities of the Ocean" by Maris Wicks
- "How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming" by Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch
- "The Great White Shark Scientist" by Sy Montgomery
- "Shimmer & Splash: The Sparkling World of Sea Life" by Jim Arnosky
- "Octopuses!: Strange and Wonderful" by Kate Walker
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