Books for Early Literacy
Fiction
- Dean, James, and Kimberly Dean. Pete the Cat: Scuba-Cat, 2016. (DB 95124)
- de la Peña, Matt, and Christian Robinson. Carmela Full of Wishes, 2018. (DB 92621)
- Diesen, Deborah, and Dan Hanna. The Pout-Pout Fish, 2013. (DBC 05415)
- Clanton, Ben. Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea, 2020. (DB 100815)
- Freedman, Deborah. The Story of Fish and Snail, 2013. (BR 20045)
- Heos, Bridget and Joy Ang. Arrr, Mustache Baby! 2019. (DBC 16310)
- Lionni, Leo. Swimmy, 1963. (BR 11004)
- Light, Steve. Swap!, 2016. (BR 21093)
- Mills, Claudia. Gus and Grandpa go fishing, 2003. (DB 58205)
- Muhammad, Ibtihaj, S.K. Ali, and Hatem Aly. The Proudest Blue, 2019. (BR 23172)
- Phi, Bao, and Thi Bui. A Different Pond, 2017. (BR 22036)
- Pfister, Marcus. The Rainbow Fish, 1999. (DB 89911, BR 08974)
- Reynolds, Peter H. The Dot, 2003. (BR 17039)
- Scott, Jordan, and Sydney Smith. I Talk Like a River, 2020. (DB 101830, BR 23736 In Process)
- Wallace, Adam, and Andy Elkerton. How to Catch a Mermaid, 2018. (DB 101001)
Non-Fiction
- Adler, David A., and Anna Raff. Things That Float and Things That Don’t, 2014. (DB 78770)
- Bouler, Olivia. Olivia’s Birds: Saving the Gulf, 2011. (DB 75436)
- Cousins, Lucy. Count with Little Fish, 2018. (DBC 16150)
- Davies, Nicola and Emily Sutton. A First Book of the Sea, 2018. (DBC 17112)
- Keating, Jess, and Marta Álvarez Miguéns. Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean’s Most Fearless Scientist, 2017. (DB 91498)
- Lindstrom, Carole, and Michaela Goade. We Are Water Protectors, 2020. (DB 103823, BR 23733 In Process)
- Maurer, Tracy Nelson, and el primo Ramón. Samuel Morse, That’s Who!, 2019. (DB 104607)
- Messner, Kate, and Matthew Forsythe. The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World’s Coral Reefs, 2018. (DBC 12559)
- Montgomery, Sy, and Amy Schimler-Safford. Inky’s Amazing Escape, 2018. (DBC 12558)
- Paul, Miranda, and Jason Chin. Water is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle, 2015. (DBC 09995)
- Ragsdale, Linda, and Srimalie Bassani. This Raindrop: Has a Billion Stories to Tell, 2020. (DB 102770)
- Verde, Susan, Georgie Badiel, and Peter H. Reynolds. The Water Princess, 2016. (DBC 09708)
- Williams, Lily. If Polar Bears Disappeared, 2018. (BR 22438)
- Williams, Lily. If Sharks Disappeared, 2017. (BR 22024)
