We’re heading to the beach this weekend so we’ve been doing lots of picture book reading about the beach, the ocean, and sea creatures. I wanted to list some of the titles we’ve enjoyed. I’ve divided them into fiction and non-fiction but many of them walk the boundary between the two. In other words, they contain lots of great facts but are narrated like a story. Several of them are out of print, but our library had all of them.
Non-Fiction:
One Small Place By the Sea by Barbara Brenner – describes a tide pool and all the creatures who live there, wonderful, brightly -colored illustrations
An Island Scrapbook by Virginia Wright-Frierson – an artist and her daughter describe their last week at a house on a North Carolina barrier island
One Small Square: Seashore – We’ve enjoyed several titles in the One Small Square series.
Beachcombing: Exploring the Seashore by Jim Arnosky – We’ve put this one on hold at the library since we’ve enjoyed lots of Arnosky’s books.
Fiction:
How Will We Get to the Beach? by Brigitte Luciani- This has been a favorite of ours for years. A mom and her baby try to get to the beach but none of the modes of transportation they try can hold all the things they need to take. You get to guess what’s missing on each page. Great illustrations too!
Out of the Ocean by Debra Frasier – a girl and her mom consider treasures they find in the sea
Flip-Flops by Nancy Cote – a girl and her mom visit the beach and the girl learns all the things she can do with one flip-flop
Pebble: A Story About Belonging by Susan Milord – a pebble longs to be something greater than a pebble on a beach
You have some of our favorites on this list.
We are also fans of Flotsam.
Especially because it “takes place” on
a beach not too far from us here in N.J.
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