Sailing Books for Children

[Salazar]

A description of Lying Awake I found online sounds promising:

Lying Awake is a beautifully written, quality children's picture book with delightful watercolor illustrations, for ages six to adult. It features the special combination of a read-aloud bedtime story, activities, and several pages of educational information about life on a boat, and little-known facts about the marine life in the story. Waiting for sleep in her cozy bunk, eight-year-old Lanie listens to the sounds both inside the boat and outside in the marina, and relives her adventures with Grandfather out on the tide flats. Readers are treated to the sensory experience of what you see, smell, and hear on a boat in a marina, and to the rhythm and peacefulness of a boat rocking back and forth at the dock. The activities in Lying Awake include a recipe, and three secret signal flag messages for the reader to decode. These messages provide a few details not found elsewhere in the book.

https://books.google.ca/books/about/Lying_Awake.html?id=xYjCsaDzJhkC&redir_esc=y

And a few short reviews on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Lying-Awake-Helen-Furbush/product-reviews/0974178705/ref=dpx_acr_txt?showViewpoints=1

 

[Mizzmo]

Not a book, but Moana seems to be working very well for my daughter. She brings her Heart of Tafiti necklace onto the boat 

 

[cje]

Thanks QBF. I just watched Scuppers, it's appropriate for my mentality too. 

 

[HFC Hunter]

Night Race to Kawau, by Tessa Duder https://www.amazon.com/Night-Race-Kawau-Puffin-Books/dp/0140317589

More for the 9yo but it’ll whet their appetite for yachts, racing and night passages - and build some some strong sailing sense into them. The hero is a young girl who your G-kid(s) will identify with who has to cope with the aftermath when the kite goes wrong in the dark. Great adventure story, empowered kids who take on responsibility, and excellent sailing detail as well.

Nothing would betray it’s 35years old and it courses the NZ Americas Cup waters.

 

[HFC Hunter]

My kids love the pics in Seahorse Magazine, but I read it mainly for the articles 

 

[HFC Hunter]

The Tommy the Tugboat series by DoraThatcher.

Getting dated and damn near collector items now, but the little kids will love being read to, and the chapter stories are lovely with their innocent underdog-saving-the-day adventures, and well written for reading aloud.

 

[cje]

After thinking about my youth. My favorite of all time was Royce's Sailing Illustrated. I still remember every page.

 

[Fisher]

Here are a few books my kids who are not yet readers like to listen too. Not exclusively sail but nautical for certain.

Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey

https://www.amazon.com/Wonder-Picture-Puffins-Robert-McCloskey/dp/0140502017

The Edmund Fitzgerald - Song of the Bell by Kathy-Jo Wargin

https://www.amazon.com/Edmund-Fitzgerald-Song-Bell/dp/1585361267

Scuffy the Tugboat  by Gertrude Compton

https://www.amazon.com/Scuffy-Tugboat-Adventures-Down-River/dp/0307020460

 

[toddster]

I have a book called Sea Fever by K. M. Peyton that matches that description.

That might be it, thanks.  It has been a very long time...

This other book by the same author rings a few bells too

 

[Bull City]

I'm compiling a list. Carry on!

 

[Bull City]

After thinking about my youth. My favorite of all time was Royce's Sailing Illustrated. I still remember every page.

I still have my old copy, ca. 1970, which has been soaked and dried more than once. Love his drawings.

 

[Veeger]

As a Brit I am supposed to love Ransome

I  could never get on with him

all that "let us pretend" an old woman is  a  witch bollix or an old man is a pirate tosh

I tried his adult literature too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racundra's_First_Cruise

in Racundra he devoted a lot of  the book bad  mouthing the working class

I fear that his prose has not survived well

D

Kids don't care!

 

[seabell]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/24/swallows-and-amazons-titty-renamed-tatty-in-bbc-film

“The British public have a huge warmth and affection for Titty, which I think has been underestimated. There is even a #TittyForever hashtag.

(Sorry. Puerile, I know. But this is SA, where titties seem to be equivalent to Bitcoin)

 

[seabell]

 

[Recidivist]

My son enjoyed (IIRC) Hydrodynamics of Sailing by CA Marchaj.

Edit - I preferred The Boat That Wouldn't Float by Farley Mowat, but it's for an older reader!

 

[Ishmael]

My son enjoyed (IIRC) Hydrodynamics of Sailing by CA Marchaj.

Edit - I preferred The Boat That Wouldn't Float by Farley Mowat, but it's for an older reader!

The Mowat book,  as are most of the Mowat books, are readable again and again and you find new stuff every time.

 

[Lex Teredo]

Bowditch. 

Of if the rugrat whines about it being too difficult, then Chapmans.

 

[Ajax]

One book from my childhood-  The Coral Island:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coral_Island

 

[Ishmael]

One book from my childhood-  The Coral Island:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coral_Island

My copy, printed the year after I was born. The cover still looks pretty good, but the pages are a little loose.

Sounds like a pretty succinct description of me at times.

 

[SemiSalt]

Stuart Little (E.B. White) had a boating adventure.