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Sea Adventures

From the Ocotber 7, 2007 Pigeon Post essay of the same name.

This book list is divided into three sections:
(1) Picture Books
(2) Books for Independent Readers
(3) Books for Young Adults

The list begins below with Picture Books, but you can use one of the following links to skip directly to either of the other two sections.
Go to books for Independent Readers
Go to books for Young Adults


Picture Books

Tim and the Brave Sea Captain by Edward Ardizzone
The Little Ships by Louise Borden
Arabella by Wendy Orr
The Edmund Fitzgerald by Kathy-Jo Wargin and illustrated by Gijsbert Van Frankenhuyzen
The Ballad of the Pirate Queens by Jane Yolen and illustrated by David Shannon


Independent Reader

Shipwrecked The True Adventures of Japanese Boy by Rhoda Blumberg
Powder Monkey by Paul Dowswell
The Story of the H.L. Hunley and Queenie's Coin by Fran Hawk and illustrated by Dan Nance
Midshipman Bolithio by Alexander Kent


Young Adult

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer
Endurance Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
In the Heart of the Sea The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

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