Book Lists for Children

Discover the ancient myths that surround our oceans and the modern science behind them.

Through this engaging and empowering short documentary, grade 4 to 7 students learn that their local conservation efforts can have far-reaching results. This lesson is made concrete through the experience of youth in Matamoros, Mexico, where a severe water shortage led the city to take the unusual step of putting local children in charge of changing adult attitudes and habits.

In 1930, on the coast of Scotland, eight-year-old Kirstie finds a large egg which hatches into an unusual sea creature, and as he grows her family must decide what to do with him. Based on the book by Dick King-Smith.

Laura and Robert, a.k.a. "The Riddle Solvers," are two siblings who run a riddle-solving stand, where they solve riddles for 5¢ apiece. We follow them as they solve a mysterious riddle from the ocean that reaches them on an inland lake... in a message in a magic bottle. This half-hour movie for children shares how life on earth is connected through moving water.

The greatest impacts from climate change will not be warmer temperatures but water shortages. Learn how America's water infrastructure is incapable of handling these changes. There exist solutions that will make us rethink everything from how we use water, to where we live, to who owns water. Grades 7 and up.

Set sail for big adventure on the high seas with our fearless team of Popular Mechanics hosts. You'll swim along with dolphin friends; visit Sea World and other aquariums to help take care of turtles, manatees and sea lions.

Presents activities that use music, movement, humor, story time, brain care, problem solving, and second language to help young children learn about creatures that live in or around the pond or in the ocean. Ages 2 and up.

Ariel is a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid who is enchanted with all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world above the sea, she swims to the surface and, in a raging storm, rescues Prince Eric, the man of her dreams.