Water
Create your own storytime at home or in the classroom using this thematic starter. You'll find links to selected books in our catalog on this page and a downloadable PDF that includes additional elements like songs/rhymes and suggested materials.
Make a SPLASH with this storytime all about water (and the creatures who depend on it).
Books for Babies
- Yoga Whale: Simple Poses for Little Ones by Sarah Jane Hinder
- Baby Shark! illustrated by Stevie Lewis
- Minino y la bañera by Meritxell Marti & Xavier Salomo
- Merbaby’s Lullaby by Jane Yolen; illustrated by Elizabeth O. Dulemba
- Bath Time Physics by Jill Esbaum
- Hello Sea by Carolyn Scrace
- ¡Splash! by Mariana Ruiz Johnson
- Nibi is water/nibi aawon nbiish by Joanne Robertson
Books for toddlers
- En el agua by Christina Earley; translated by Pablo de la Vega
- Turtle-Turtle and the Wide, Wide River by Jane & Will Hillenbrand
- If I Were a Fish by Corook & Olivia Barton; illustrated by Mike Curato
- Together We Swim by Valerie Bolling; illustrated by Kaylani Juanita
- ¡Chapoteando! By Sharon Callen; illustrated by Renne Benoit
- Leo Can Swim by Anna McQuinn; illustrated by Ruth Hearson
- Hey Otter! Hey Beaver! by Brian Pinkney
- Bubbles… Up! by Jacqueline Davies; illustrated by Sonia Sanchez
Books for preschoolers
- El pez pucheros by Deborah Diesen; illustrated by Dan Hanna
- Jabari salta by Gaia Cornwall; translated by Georgina Lazaro
- I Will Swim Next Time by Emily Joof & Matilda Ruta
- When You Can Swim by Jack Wong
- Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman; illustrated by Geneva Bowers
- Hello, Rain by Kyo Maclear & Chris Turnham
- We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom; illustrated by Michaela Goade
- Oona by Kelly DiPucchio; illustrated by Raissa Figueroa
Books for school-age
- The Whale, the Sea, and the Stars by Adrian Macho
- Hop aprende a nadar by Esther van den Berg
- El dia del agua by Margarita Engle; illustrated by Olivia Sua
- The Song That Called Them Home by David A Robertson; illustrated by Maya McKibbin
- The Great Lakes: Our Freshwater Treasure by Barb Rosenstock; illustrated by Jamey Christoph
Read the Pictures! If your little one wants to flip the pages while you’re reading together, that’s okay! Talk about the pictures instead. Point to things on each page and name them as you go.
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