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Sea Stories Genre
Books in the Sea Stories genre:
Old Ironsides: Americans Build a Fighting Ship (1997)
The story of the building of the American super-frigate U.S.S. Constitution.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
David Weitzman
Illustrator(s):
David Weitzman
The Swallows and the Amazons (1997)
This is a transcription of the original manuscript of Swallows and Amazons along with the original illustrations by Steven Spurrier which, aside from the dust jacket, were not used in the first edition as Ransome objected to them.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Steven Spurrier
The Church Mice Take a Break (2000)
When the vestry mice and Sampson are stranded at a seaside resort, they have to resort to the sea to retrieve their fossil ticket home.
Author(s):
Graham Oakley
Illustrator(s):
Graham Oakley
Benjamin’s Treasure (2001)
Author(s):
Garth Williams
Illustrator(s):
Rosemary Wells
Garth Williams
Noah’s Ark (2002)
Forty days and forty nights it rained on the earth while Noah and his family and the animals in the ark floated on the waters.
Author(s):
Jerry Pinkney
The Bible
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Sneakers the Seaside Cat (2003)
Sneakers takes a holiday by the sea.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Anne Mortimer
Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude (2004)
Author(s):
Louise Borden
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
A Blow for Liberty (2006)
Sixteen-year-old Jed Starbuck of Nantucket joins the crew of “The True Patriot” to fight the British at sea during the Revolutionary War.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Victor Mays
The Cape May Packet (2006)
When British war ships cut off shipping during the War of 1812, Will Hand and his father convert their packet ship to a privateer.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Robert Frankenberg
Clear for Action! (2006)
In 1912 Jeff Robbins is pressed into service with the British Navy. His subsequent adventures aboard a man-o-war and escape make for a thrilling sea story.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Frank Beaudouin
The Commodore’s Cup (2006)
Luke Cramer loves to sail and when he chances on a wrecked Comet class sailboat he leaps at the chance to fix it up and sail it in the local fleet.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Don Sibley
Flotsam (2006)
The Melville underwater camera holds a trove of unexpected pictures.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
David Wiesner
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
Guns for the Saratoga (2006)
Gideon Jones helps his father cast guns for the American Navy’s new sloop-of-war, then decides to join her crew to fight the British.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
John O’Hara Cosgrave, II
The Voyage of the Javelin (2006)
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
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2007)
Edmund and Lucy Pevensie are visiting their cousin Eustice Scrubb when they are pulled into a picture of a Narnian ship and find themselves part of the crew of the Dawn Treader under the command of Caspian the tenth.
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
David Wiesner
Friendly Tales (2008)
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Various
Pharaoh’s Boat (2009)
Shows how the Egyptians built a boat to take Pharaoh Cheops to the underworld.
Author(s):
David Weitzman
Illustrator(s):
David Weitzman
Robinson Crusoe (2011)
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s):
George Cruikshank
Crossing On Time (2019)
The story of the SS United States, the last great American passenger liner, and a family's voyage to America.
Author(s):
David Macaulay
Illustrator(s):
David Macaulay