Ships And Underwater Craft category: 175 books

A rollicking wartime adventure on the BC coast. A lot has changed in the world since Sophie, Molly, Mark, Harriet, Leticia, and Posy’s last adventure in The Silver Lining. Now it’s 1940, and the Second World War is making life back home in the United Kingdom very dangerous indeed. Although...

There's a river outside my window. Where will it take me? So begins the imaginary journey of a child inspired by the view outside her bedroom window: a vast river winding through a towering city. A small boat with a single white sail floats down the river and takes her from factories to farmlands,...

Mackenzie the Mighty Ship: An Adventure to Find Candy and Toy Island is a fun and imaginative story about an ambitious and persistent little ship and her quest to find magical Candy and Toy Island. The story rhymes and moves readers swiftly along with Mackenzie as she learns valuable lessons about...

After years of planning, marine biologists Dom Marlin and Jake Sturgeon set off to explore Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, the deepest ocean trench in the world, in DK Adventures: Terrors of the Deep. Join them from pre-launch checks in the submersible Orion, to their encounters with great...

The disaster that shocked the world! Courage and tragedy... this is the story of the "safest" ship ever built. DK Readers now have a fresh new look featuring redesigned jackets and interiors, and up-to-date vocabulary throughout! Stunning photographs combine with lively illustrations...

Chirp and his friends Squawk and Tweet love going on adventures together. Today, they've traded in their playhouse for a boat, and they're paddling down a mighty river in search of the world's biggest waterfall! When their boat springs a leak in the rushing rapids, the three explorers must find a way...

Two young teens, Jack Gordon and Henry Addison, meet when the Great Lakes cruise ship, the Noronic, docks at Ward Island, part of the “Toronto islands,” in Lake Ontario in the summer of 1949, just before the ship catches fire – with Henry on board. Fourteen-year-old Jack is a daring, impulsive...

In full sail with flags flying, the mighty warship capsized and began to sink. This is the saga of the great Swedish warship, the Vasa. Built to be the crown jewel of the Swedish Navy, the Vasa capsized not a mile into her maiden voyage in 1628—a tragedy resulting in many deaths and great...

Take Your Children on an Adventure! Winner of the 2014 International Readers' Favorite Book Award Contest. This entertaining and educational picture book features two little travelers - Maya and Filippo - who love to explore the world.  ˃˃˃ Would you like your children to learn...

Ellen Prentiss's papa said she was born with saltwater in her veins, so he gave her sailing lessons and taught her how to navigate. As soon as she met a man who loved sailing like she did, she married him. When her husband was given command of a clipper ship custom-made to travel quickly, she knew...

In the summer of 1883 a famous clipper ship ran aground off the coast of Prince Edward Island near the home of a young girl named Lucy Maud Montgomery. Lucy Maud, who became one of Canada's most beloved writers, wrote about the grand adventure in her journals and reflected on it years later in her...

Children's History press is proud to present "101 Amazing Pirate Facts".  Here you will find tons of pirate trivia.  You will learn all about the life and times of pirates, buccaneers, privateers and corsairs in the age of sail. You will learn all about pirate slang,...

Smoke billows up. Cool water flows. Whose boat is that? Do you know?   This nonfiction ode to boats features six kinds of workers and their boats—a patrol boat, a tugboat, a car ferry, a lobster boat, a lifeboat, and a fireboat—with important parts properly labeled. The answer to each inquiring...

When a lonely fisherman finds an injured bird on his boat, he nurtures it back to health and—since the bird can no longer migrate with its family—charts a course to head south for the winter. Together, the two form a special friendship and enjoy life at sea until both the healing process and the...