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Bibliography with Suggested Age Ranges Bibliography with Suggested Age Ranges *A Note about Age Ranges* Many of the books listed as “5th or 6th grade and up” are specially selected adult books with illustrations or pictures which will appeal to even younger readers, especially with teacher assistance. Don’t be afraid to give them a try! Recommended for General Maritime History and Context: Dodd, Marion. Mystic by the A, B, “Sea.” Mystic, Connecticut: Flat Hammock Press, 2006. Kindergarten and up. German, Andrew W. et al. Mystic Seaport: A Visitor’s Guide. Mystic, Connecticut: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2005. 3rd grade and up. Gibbons, Gail. Surrounded by Sea: Life on a New England Fishing Island. New York: Holiday House, 2006. 1st grade and up. Kraske, Robert. Marooned: The Strange But True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe. Illus. Robert Andrew Parker. New York: Clarion Books, 2005. 5th grade and up. Lambert, C.S. Sea Glass Chronicles: Whispers from the Past. Illus. Pat Hanberry. Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 2001. 4th grade and up. McCloskey, Robert. Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man. New York: Puffin, 1989. Preschool and up. McLimans, David. Gone Fishing: Ocean Life by the Numbers. New York: Walker and Co., 2008. 2nd grade and up. Pallotta, Jerry. The Boat Alphabet Book. Illus. David Bierdzycki. Watertown, Massachusetts: Charlesbridge, 2003. 1st grade and up. Pfeffer, Wendy. What’s It Like to Be a Fish? (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1). Illus. Holly Keller. New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Kindergarten and up. 1 Roy, Ronald. A Thousand Pails of Water. Illus. Vo-Dinh Mai. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Kindergarten and up. Spencer, Ann. Song of the Sea: Myths, Tales and Folklore. Plattsburgh, New York: Tundra Books, 2001. 5th grade and up. Recommended for General Marine Biology and Information: Bellesta, Laurent, and Pierre Descamp. Planet Ocean: Voyage to the Heart of the Marine Realm. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2007. 5th grade and up. Bely, Pierre-Yves, and Sally Bely. Do Dolphins Ever Sleep?: 211 Questions and Answers about Ships, the Sky and the Sea. Dobbs Ferry, New York: Sheridan House, 2007. 6th grade and up. Cramer, Deborah. Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 2008. 5th grade and up. Dinwiddie, Robert, et. al. Ocean: The World’s Last Wilderness Revealed (American Museum of Natural History). London: DK Adult, 2008. 5th grade and up. Earle, Sylvia A., and Linda K. Glover. Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2008. 5th grade and up. Galvin, Laura Gates. Alphabet of Ocean Animals – A Smithsonian Alphabet Book. Illus. Steven James Petruccio, Joanie Popeo. Norfolk, Connecticut: Soundprint, 2011. Kindergarten and up. Greenberg, Gary. A Grain of Sand: Nature’s Secret Wonder. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Voyageur Press, 2008. 5th grade and up. Johnson, Jinny. Simon & Schuster Children’s Guide to Sea Creatures. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998. 1st grade and up. Knowlton, Nancy. Citizens of the Sea: Wondrous Creatures from the Census of Marine Life. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2010. 5th grade and up. Kurlansky, Mark. World Without Fish. Illus. Frank Stockton. New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2011. 6th grade and up. MacQuitty, Miranda. Ocean (DK Eyewitness Books). London: DK Children, 2008. 3rd grade and up. 2 National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Seashells. New York: Knopf, 1981. 5th grade and up. Niesen, Thomas M. The Marine Biology Coloring Book (2nd Edition). New York: Collins Reference, 2000. 4th grade and up. Stierle, Cynthia. Ocean Life from A to Z (Book and DVD). Illus. Annie Crawley. New York: Reader’s Digest, 2007. Preschool and up. Thornton, Sue. DK Eye Wonder: Ocean. London: DK Children, 2001. Kindergarten and up. Recommended for Whaling: Whale Biology Carwardine, Mark. Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises. London: DK Adult, 2002. 5th grade and up. Davies, Nicola. Big Blue Whale. Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2001. Preschool and up. Davidson, Margaret. Nine True Dolphin Stories. New York: Scholastic Educational, 2004. Kindergarten and up. Donaldson, Julia. The Snail and the Whale. Illus. Axel Scheffler. New York: Puffin, 2006. Preschool and up. Esbensen, Barbara Juster. Baby Whales Drink Milk (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1). Illus. Lambert Davis. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. Preschool and up. Folkens, Pieter, Illus. National Audubon Guide to Marine Mammals of the World. New York: Knopf, 2002. 6th grade and up. Gibbons, Gail. Whales. New York: Holiday House, 1993. Kindergarten and up. Heyning, John. Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises. Washington, D.C.: University of Washington Press, 1995. 4th grade and up. Hodge, Judith. Whales (Animals of the Ocean). Hauppage, New York: Barron’s, 1997. 1st grade and up. 3 Hodgkins, Fran. The Whale Scientists: Solving the Mystery of Whale Strandings (Scientists in the Field Series). New York: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2007. 5th grade and up. Kraus, Scott. The Search for the Right Whale. New York: Crown Publishing, 1993. 4th grade and up. Lourie, Peter. Whaling Season: A Year in the Life of an Arctic Whale Scientist (Scientists in the Field Series). New York: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2009. 5th grade and up. McNulty, Faith. How Whales Walked into the Sea. New York: Scholastic Paperbacks, 2000. 3rd grade and up. Nicklin, Charles “Flip.” Among Giants: A Life with Whales. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 5th grade and up. Papastavrou, Vassili. DK Eyewitness Books: Whale. New York: DK Children, 2004. 3rd grade and up. Rylant, Cynthia. The Whales. New York: Blue Sky Press, 1996. Preschool and up. Simon, Seymour. Whales. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. Kindergarten and up. Ward, Nathalie. Do Whales Ever…? Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1997. 1st grade and up. Wolpert, Tom. Whales for Kids. Lanham, Maryland: Northford Press, 2000. 2nd grade and up. Whaling History Aiken, Joan. Nightbirds on Nantucket. Boston: Sandpiper, 1999. 5th grade and up. Brown, Martha Smith. She Went A-Whaling. Mystic, Connecticut: Mystic Seaport Press, 1994. 5th grade and up. Carrick, Carol. Whaling Days. New York: Clarion Books, 1993. Kindergarten and up. Chrisp, Peter. The Whalers. Mason, Ohio: Thomson Learning, 1995. 4th grade and up. Cook, Peter. You Wouldn’t Want to Sail on a 19th-Century Whaling Ship: Grisly Tasks You’d Rather Not Do. Illus. David Antram. London: Franklin Watts, 2004. 2nd grade and up. Craighead, Jean George. Water Sky. New York: HarperTeen, 1999. 6th grade and up. 4 Currie, Stephen. Thar She Blows: American Whaling in the Nineteenth Century (People’s History). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lerner Publishing Group, 2001. 6th grade and up. Demas, Corrine. If Ever I Return Again. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. 5th grade and up. Draper, Charla. Cooking on Nineteenth Century Whaling Ships. Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone Press, 2001. 4th grade and up. Dow, George Francis. Whale Ships and Whaling: A Pictorial History. New York: Dover Publications, 2012. 5th grade and up. Duey, Kathleen, and Karen A. Bale. Hurricane: Open Sea (Survival). New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1999. 5th grade and up. Fine, Jil. The Whaleship Essex: The True Story of Moby Dick (High Interest Books). Danbury, Connecticut: Children’s Press, 2003. 4th grade and up. Fischer, Leonard Everett. The Death of Evening Star: The Diary of a Young New England Whaler. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1972. 6th grade and up. Frederick, Heather Vogel. The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed. New York: Aladdin Historical Fiction, 2004. 4th grade and up. Gourley, Catherine. Hunting Neptune’s Giants: True Stories of American Whaling. Brookfield, Connecticut: Millbrook Press, 1995. 4th grade and up. Grant, Gordon. Greasy Luck: A Whaling Sketchbook. New York: Dover Publications, 2004. 3rd grade and up. Hall, Daniel Weston. Arctic Rovings, or, The Adventures of a New Bedford Boy on Sea and Land. North Haven, Connecticut: Linnet Books, 1992. 5th grade and up. Hoie, Claus. The Log of the Whaler Helena. Darien, Connecticut: Two Bytes Publishing Ltd., 1994. 4th grade and up. Jernegan, Laura. A Whaling Captain’s Daughter: The Diary of Laura Jernegan, 1868- 1871. Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone Press, 2000. 3rd grade and up. Kassirer, Sue. Thar She Blows: Whaling in the 1860s. Illus. Pat Fridell. Norwalk, Connecticut: Trudy Corp., 1997. 2nd grade and up. Kimmel, Eric A. Moby Dick: Chasing the Great White Whale. Illus. Andrew Glass. New York: Feiwel & Friends, 2012. Preschool and up. 5 Kitteredge, Frances. Neeluk: An Eskimo Boy in the Days of Whaling Ships. Portland, Oregon: Alaska Northwest Books, 2001. 2nd grade and up. Leavett, John F. The Charles W. Morgan. Mystic, Connecticut: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1998. 5th grade and up. McKissack, Patricia, and Frederick McKissack. Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African American Whalers. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1999. 6th grade and up. Melville, Herman. Moby Dick: The Great Classics for Children. Condensed & adapted by W.T. Robinson, illustrated by Jerry Dillingham. Franklin, Tennessee: Dalmation Publishing Group, 2009. 2nd grade and up. Murphy, Jim. Gone A-Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale. North Point, Florida: Sandpiper, 2004. 6th grade and up. Murphy, Jim. The Journal of Brian Doyle: Greenhorn on an Alaskan Whaling Ship, The Florence, 1874. “Dear America” series. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 2004. 4th grade and up. Phelan, Joseph. The Whale Hunters. New York: Time-Life Books, 1969. 3rd grade and up. Philbrick, Nathaniel. The Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex. New York: Puffin, 2004. 5th grade and up. Preus, Margi. Heart of a Samurai. New York: Amulet Books, 2010. 5th grade and up. Rivera, Raquel. Tuk and the Whale. Illus. Mary Jane Gerber. Toronto, Ontario: Groundwood Books, 2009. 2nd grade and up. Roop, Peter, and Connie Roop. Goodbye for Today: The Diary of a Young Girl at Sea. New York: Aladdin Publishing, 2000. 2nd grade and up. Sandler, Martin W.
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