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Sea Stories Genre
Books in the Sea Stories genre:
The Fair American (1940)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Sea is All Around (1940)
Mab has been living with her aunt Sarah in Iowa. Now she is going to live with Aunt Belinda on Nantucket Island.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
To the Indies (1940)
A historical novel of Columbus’ third voyage.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Doris Hauman
George Hauman
The Big Six (1941)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Botany Bay (1941)
Author(s):
James Norman Hall
Charles Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Captain from Connecticut (1941)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Jan Doubrava
The Captain from Connecticut (1941)
Captain Josiah Peabody takes his frigate, Delaware, to sea in the teeth of a British blockade during the War of 1812 and proceeds to devastate British shipping in the Caribbean.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Captain Kidd’s Cow (1941)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Missee Lee (1941)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Pirate Waters (1941)
Young midshipman Harry Gringo sails aboard a U.S. Navy corvette in pursuit of a band of pirates.
Author(s):
Edwin L. Sabin
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Young Patriots (1941)
Patty escapes capture by pirates during the Revolutionary War and ends up on Block Island.
Author(s):
Marjorie A. Hayes
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
The Black Buccaneer (1942)
While guarding sheep on an island off the coast of Maine, Jeremy is kidnapped by pirates and taken to the West Indies.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Edward Shenton
The Folding Father (1942)
This is an extract from Notre Dame of the Waves, a maritime novel, translated into English as Last Port of Call.
Author(s):
Heinrich Hauser
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Merry Shipwreck (1942)
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Missee Lee (1942)
The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint are sailing around the world when they have to abandon ship off the coast of China. When they are captured by a female Chinese pirate, they end up forming a makeshift prep school.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Unknown
The White Horse (1942)
Voyaging on the Fair American to Genoa, Sally, Andrew and Captain Patterson are captured by Moroccan pirates.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Wreck of the Wild Wave (1942)
Author(s):
Edith Thacher Hurd
Illustrator(s):
Frederick T. Chapman
The Picts and the Martyrs (1943)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Unknown
The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome at All (1943)
Dick and Dorothea have come to the lake to stay with Nancy and Peggy, break in their new boat, Scarab and help Timothy with the copper assays when all is thrown into confusion by the arrival of the Great Aunt.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
The Ship (1943)
Based on the second Battle of Sirte in 1942 between the Italian fleet and a British convoy relieving Malta.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Tom Lea