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Sea Stories Genre
Books in the Sea Stories genre:
The Adventures of Roderick Random (1959)
Author(s):
Tobias Smollett
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Best In Children’s Books Volume 17 (1959)
Best in Children’s Books Volume 26 (1959)
Esmeralda Ahoy! (1959)
Four children in a sailboat on the Thames.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Fairholme
Pamela Powell
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Hunting the Bismarck (1959)
The most powerful battle ship in the world sorties into the North Sea in a desperate attempt to reach Nazi controlled France.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Kenneth Farnhill
The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck (1959)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Samuel Bryant
Red Rackham’s Treasure (1959)
The Voyage of the Javelin (1959)
In 1854 Bob Wingate signs on as ship’s boy on the extreme clipper Javelin for a voyage to San Francisco ’round the Horn, then on to China and the annual tea race to London Docks.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
John O’Hara Cosgrave, II
Wonder Tales of Ships and Seas (1959)
A collection of folktales from around the world dealing with the sea and ships.
Author(s):
Frances Carpenter
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Bells of Rye (1960)
French marauders steal the church bells from Rye. John Finch and his friend Mark Cundy are determined to bring them back again.
Author(s):
Richard Church
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hubbard
Gogo the French Seagull (1960)
Gogo, the gourmet French seagull follows the Queen of France back and forth across the Atlantic.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Happy Little Whale (1960)
The little whale is captured and taken to an aquarium.
Author(s):
Kenneth Norris
Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Red Sea Sharks (1960)
Robinson Crusoe (1960)
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Anne Terry White
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Shan’s Lucky Knife (1960)
A Burmese folktale about a boy from the hills who outwits the owner of the ship.
Author(s):
Jean Merrill
Illustrator(s):
Ronni Solbert
Boy Overboard! (1961)
Peter goes on his first voyage aboard the San Andres and has more adventures than he bargained for.
Author(s):
Captain George H. Grant
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Shooting Star (1961)
A meteoroid grounds in the polar sea and Tintin and his companions are off to claim it.
Read online at archive.org.
Tinker and Tanker and the Pirates (1961)
Adventure on the high seas with the adventuresome rabbit and his hippo friend.
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962)
Hornblower takes up his command as part of the Channel fleet.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
John Allan Maxwell
Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962)
Hornblower takes up his command as part of the Channel fleet.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
David Cobb