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Include books by the same authorMartina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
Carmen Agra Deedy · 32 pages
Carmen Agra Deedy delivers a deliciously inventive Cuban version of the beloved Martina folktale, complete with a dash of cafe cubano. Martina the beautiful cockroach doesn't know coffee beans about love and marriage. That's where her Cuban family comes in. While some of the Cucarachas offer her gifts to make her more attractive, only Abuela, her grandmother, gives her something really useful: un
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
Margarita Engle · 44 pages
Follows a young Cuban girl in the 1930s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there's never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
Peter Pan (A Little Golden Book)
Eugene Bradley Coco, Ron Dias, Walt Disney Company
Parrots Over Puerto Rico
Cindy Trumbore, Susan L. Roth · 45 pages
This book is a combined history of the Puerto Rican parrot and the island of Puerto Rico, describing how the Puerto Rican parrot has been protected and managed to save the parrots from endangered status. This illustrated book provides a combined history of the Puerto Rican parrot and the island of Puerto Rico, highlighting current efforts to save the Puerto Rican parrot by protecting and managing
Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella
Robert D. San Souci · 40 pages
A Creole variant of the familiar Cinderella tale set in the Caribbean and narrated by the godmother who helps Cendrillon find true love.
The Storm Whale
Benji Davies
"Every day, in a house by the sea, a little boy watches his father leave for a long day's work. One night, a great storm washes a small whale onto the beach. The boy discovers the whale is a good listener. The father discovers the boy is lonely. Together, they return the whale to the sea. And from that day on, the boy learns that the father can be a good listener too"-- When a great storm washes
The Wreck of the Zephyr
Chris Van Allsburg · 32 pages
A boy thinks he is the best boat driver.But one stormy day he goes off sailing and crashes.When he wakes up he finds himself on an island.While he is there he learnes how to fly a boat.So the next morning he flies his boat back to where he came from.But he crashes.No one believed he flew the boat but one kid.
Amos and Boris
William Steig · 32 pages
Befriended by a whale as he is drowning in the ocean, a mouse gets a chance to reciprocate years later in an equally unlikely situation.
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell!
Lucille Colandro, Skip Hinnant · 32 pages
Little Tug
Stephen Savage
Little Tug knows what to do when the tall ship, the speedboat, and the ocean liner need him, and at such times, he is indispensible.
In a Village by the Sea
Muon Van
Written in a spare, lyrical style using fresh, evocative imagery, In a Village by the Sea tells the story of longing for the comforts of home. A perfect book for teaching about diverse cultures and lifestyles through rich pictures and words, moving from the wide world to the snugness of home and back out again. In a cozy seaside house in Vietnam, a mother cooks, a child naps, and a cricket paints
McElligot's Pool
Dr. Seuss · 62 pages
"Young man," laughed the farmer, "You're sort of a fool! You'll never catch fish in McElligot's Pool!" "Hmmm" answered Marco, "It may be you're right. I've been here three hours without one single bite. There might be no fish, but again, well, there might!" A boy imagines the rare and wonderful fish he might catch in McElligot's pool.
Sam, Bangs & Moonshine
Evaline Ness · 41 pages
Relates the experiences of a little girl as she learns to tell the difference between makebelieve and real life.
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Beatrix Potter · 112 pages
Little pig Robinson goes to market for his aunts and, after a series of unexpected and amazing adventures, including an unexpected sea voyage, settles to a pleasant life on an island in the South Seas.
The Sailor Dog
Margaret Wise Brown · 32 pages
A dog who has always wanted to go to sea realizes his dream.
The Mousehole Cat
Antonia Barber · 32 pages
When the Great Storm-Cat threatens the small English village of Mousehole, only an old fisherman's cat can soothe its fierceness during a dangerous sea venture.
Scuffy the Tugboat (A Little Golden Book)
Gertrude Crampton
Flotsam
David Wiesner · 40 pages
When a young boy discovers a camera on the beach and develops the film, he finds with his microscope many layers of pictures within the photographs.
Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man
Robert McCloskey · 61 pages
Burt goes fishing, takes refuge from a storm in a whale's stomach, and decorates a whole school of whales' tails with striped band-aids.
Serendipity
Stephen Cosgrove · 34 pages
A large sea creature discovers she has important work to do as guardian of all the seas.
Tiddler: The Story-Telling Fish
Julia Donaldson · 32 pages