
Picture Books
Stella, Star of the Sea. By Marie-Louise Gay
Mister Seahorse. By Eric Carle
The Party. By Barbara Reid
Imagine a Place. By Sarah L. Thomson
Beginning Readers
Last One in is a Rotten Egg. By Leonard Kessler
Sam at the Seaside. By Mary Labatt
Nate the Great and the Boring Beach Bag. By Marjoire Weinman Sharmat
Splish, Splash! by Sarah Weeks
Early Chapter Books

Bad Kitty Gets a Bath. By Nick Bruel
Don't Go Near the Water! By Veronika Martenova Charles
Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas. By Cary Fagan
High Tide in Hawaii. By Mary Pope Osborne
Lawn Boy. By Gary Paulsen
I Want to Go Home. By Gordon Korman
Noses are Red. By Richard Scrimger
A Thousand Years of Pirates. By William Gilkerson
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam and the Science of Ocean Motion. By Loree Griffin Burns
Owen & Mzee: the True Story of a Remarkable Friendship. By Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff and Dr. Paula Kahumbu
The Wonder in Water. By Diane Swanson
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npl's Ready to read backpacks

These early literacy kits are available for loan, for three different age groups. Each kit includes age-appropriate books to stimulate an interest in reading and literacy-based toys and manipulatives.
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e-books, animated story books and e-audiobooks