The mercury is rising, the kids are crying boredom and summer’s just begun! Don’t panic. Send them on a big adventure without spending a dime on gas. This list of books will have them exploring sky, sea and space side by side with historical and fictional characters alike. For plot summaries of the books listed below or for more topic choices, check out the Reading Is Fundamental website at www.rif.org or visit your local library.
SKY
Title: Abuela
Author: Dorros, Arthur
Ages: 0-8
Title: The Emperor and the Kite
Author: Yolen, Jane
Ages: 0-8
Title: Fly!
Author: Myers, Christopher
Ages: 0-8
Title: I Fly
Author: Rockwell, Anne
Ages: 0-8
Title: The Fledgling
Author: Blake, Robert J.
Ages: 0-8
Title: Where Do Balloons Go?
Author: Curtis, Jamie Lee
Ages: 0-8
Title: Wings
Author: Myers, Christopher
Ages: 0-8
Title: The Wright Brothers: How They
Invented the Airplane
Author: Freedman, Russell
Ages: 0-13
Title: The Glorious Flight: Across the
Channel With Louis Bleriot, July 25, 1909
Author: Provensen, Alice: Martin Provensen
Ages: 0-13
Title: Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride
Author: Ryan, Pam Munoz
Ages: 5-8
Title: Kites: Magic Wishes That Fly Up to
the Sky
Author: Demi
Ages: 5-8
Title: The Tiny Kite of Eddie Wing
Author: Trottier, Maxine
Ages: 5-8
Title: Ride the Wind: Airborne Journeys of
Animals and Plants
Author: Simon, Seymour
Ages: 5-12
Title: Sky Pioneer: A Photobiography of
Amelia Earhart
Author: Corinne Szabo
Ages: 5-12
Title: Talkin’ About Bessie
Author: Nikki Grimes
Ages: 5-12
Title: Wingwalker
Author: Wells, Rosemary
Ages: 5-12
Title: Man from the Sky
Author: Avi
Ages: 9-12
Title: Night Flying
Author: Murphy, Rita
Ages: 9+
Title: If We Had Wings: The Enduring
Dream of Flight
Author: Buck, Rinker
Ages: 9+
SEA
Title: Bob and Shirley: A Tale of Two
Lobsters
Author: Ziefert, Harriet
Ages: 0-8
Title: Into the Sea
Author: Guiberson, Brenda Z.
Ages: 0-8
Title: River Friendly, River Wild
Author: Kurtz, Jane
Ages: 0-8
Title: A Swim Through the Sea
Author: Pratt, Kristin Joy
Ages: 0-8
Title: Swimmy
Author: Lionni, Leo
Ages: 0-8
Title: Oceans
Author: Simon, Seymour
Ages: 5-8
Title: Hidden Under the Sea
Author: Kent, Peter
Ages: 5-12
Title: Ocean Explorer
Author: Nicholson, Sue
Ages: 5-12
Title: Inside the Titanic
Author: Marshall, Ken
Ages: 5+
Title: Exploring the Titanic
Author: Ballard, Robert D.
Ages: 9+
Title: The Wanderer
Author: Creech, Sharon
Ages: 9+
SPACE
Title: Ready, Set, Go!
Author: Laden, Nina
Ages: 0-4
Title: Bebe’s Bad Dream
Author: Karas, G. Brian
Ages: 0-8
Title: Curious George and the Rocket
Author: H. A. and Margret Rey
Ages: 0-8
Title: Rolie Polie Olie
Author: Joyce, William
Ages: 0-8
Title: Starry Messenger
Author: Sis, Peter
Ages: 0-8
Title: Maria’s Comet
Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
Ages: 5-8
Title: Nergal And The Great Space Race
Author: Corey, Shana
Ages: 5-8
Title: Nova’s Ark
Author: Kirk, David
Ages: 5-8
Title: When I heard the Learn’d
Astronomer
Author: Walt Whitman
Ages: 5-8
Title: Call Me Ahnighito
Author: Conrad, Pamela
Ages: 5-12
Title: Find the Constellations
Author: Rey, H. A. Categories: Space
Ages: 5-12
Title: Countdown
Author: Mikaelsen, Ben
Ages: 5+
Title: Backyard Stars: A Guide for Home
and the Road
Author: The Editors of Klutz
Ages: 9+
Title: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Author: Dahl, Roald
Ages: 9+
Title: I Want to Be an Astronaut
Author: Maze, Stephanie
Ages: 9+
Title: The Kingfisher Young People’s Book
of Space
Author: Redfern, Martin
Ages: 9+
Title: 2001 : A Space Odyssey
Author: Clarke, Arthur Charles
Ages: 13+
Title: Neil Armstrong : The First Man on
the Moon (People to Know)
Author: Kramer, Barbara
Ages: 13+
Title: October Sky
Author: Hickam, Homer
Ages: 13+
