Baby Harp Seal Learns To Swim – A short story explaining about a seal, illustrating the importance of staying away from danger and staying within your own limits. Suitable for toddlers and learning to read age. By: Danielle Bruckert     Text and Images from Baby Harp Seal Learns To Swim Baby Harp Seal lies on …

A non-fiction book all about whales. A creative commons book from Mustard Seed Books. Word Count 266, Guided Reading Level G. By Elizabeth Kim Sample Text from Whales: Whales are the biggest animals on the planet, even bigger than elephants! <End of Page 1 of Whales> See also the Spanish language version of Whales here: https://freekidsbooks.org/los-ballenas-whales-spanish-version/   …

Mrs Penguin’s Perfect Palace – The Penguins are trying to build a perfect palace for Mrs Penguin, but something keeps going wrong. Eventually persistence and team work pays off. Another great creative commons book from Book Dash. By: Helen Brain, Celeste Beckerling     Text and Images from Mrs Penguin’s Perfect Palace “Come children, we’ll build …

Facts on coral reefs, presented in a medium length non-fiction book, with beautiful colour photographs. Another great Creative Commons book from open equal free, classified by OEF as Level 4. By: Megan Smith, Elissa Alvey, Dane Stogner     Text and Images from Coral Reefs Coral Reefs Level 4 A coral reef is a like an …

An early non-fiction book for younger children about the fascinating topic of sea stars. In the beautiful photos we can see so many pretty colours of these beautiful star shaped creatures, and short text is perfect to introduce new science and nature topics to younger children. A great follow up book for an outing to the aquarium …

Penguins – A non-fiction book all about penguins, including review questions and a drawing task. Another great creative commons book from Open Equal Free, categorised by OEF as Level 3. By: Aleyna La Croix, Michael A. Jones, Hannah Bradley and Chelsea E. Hall       See more of these books below    

In Zenya’s Trip, a little girl Zenya details an account of a family trip to Cape Cross Seal Colony. The book includes facts about Namibia, and about seals, including a non-fiction section at the end. The text in this book is designed as an experiment for new and struggling readers and those with dyslexia. It …

Fish out of Water – A simple rhyming book with colourful childlike pictures of fish doing lots of extraordinary things. Suitable for very small children or for those learning to read.     Text from Fish out of Water red fish weird fish blue fish new fish fish in a boat fish can float (fish …

Where Wild Microbes Grow – An educational rhyming picture book about discoveries on the seafloor, based on the expeditions of the vessel JOIDES Resolution. A fun way to interest young children in oceanic research. Written by award-winning children’s author Kevin Kurtz and illustrated by award-winning illustrator Alice Feagan. The eBook was created through a National Science …

Uncovering Earth’s Secrets – A book about oceanic research, featuring the research ship JOIDES Resolution, written in rhyme with beautiful illustrations. This nonfiction eBook was written for us by award-winning children’s author Kevin Kurtz (http://kevinkurtz.homestead.com) and illustrated by award-winning illustrator Alice Feagan (http://alicefeagan.com). It is written for children and classrooms in grades 1 to 4. …