Children's Books about the Beach

Every year my family heads out to the Jersey Shore for a week of sun and fun. I always bring a stack of picture books with me, but this year I decided to bring stories that reflected what we were experiencing on our vacation.

Beach weather is upon us and with that pirate season. Argh! Last year my parents and kids went on a "real" pirate ship, thanks to Pirate Voyages in New Jersey. After sailing the open sea (or at least the bay), "fighting" another pirate and drinking lots of "grog," both of them were committed to a life at sea, at least for an hour.

I still have quite a lot of water-themed picture books that I borrowed from the library, and I shall attempt to review as many as I could until end of the year. I have grouped them into themes/categories and these four glorious picture books celebrate islands and beaches and waves.

Exploring the ocean, tide pools and the beach is great to do in person but if you are landlocked you can still share the wonders of the ocean with your children with great picture books. If you can go explore the beach reading books about the beach for kids like these before and after are a great way of deepening their hands on experience.

Teaching Heart's Beach Thematic Unit Put on your sunglasses and grab a lemonade... You will be laying in the shine of your computer and swimming around this page for beach ideas to use in your classroom. You will find beach crafts, beach lessons, beach books, beach activity sheets, and many more beach goodies.