DESERT ISLAND READING
Our Ocean-loving authors have written dozens of watery or just plain brilliant books, from MG mysteries and adventures about dolphins, seals, river voles, mermaids and young explorers to YA surf and sea romances. We hope you enjoy this selection....
Georgie Adams – Charmseekers: Moonlight and Mermaids
Philip Ardagh – The Grunts all at Sea, The World of Moomin Valley
Yaba Badoe – A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars
Catherine Barr – Red Alert!, The Story of Life: a First Book of Evolution, 10 Reasons to Love a Turtle, 10 Reasons to Love a Whale,
Quentin Blake – The Green Ship, The Heron and the Crane, The Bear’s Water Picnic
Emma Carroll – Letters from the Lighthouse,
Nicola Davies – LOTS: The Diversity of Life on Earth, Into the Blue, The Pond, Big Blue Whale, Ice Bear, The Selkie’s Mate, Whale Boy, Manatee Baby, Dolphin Baby, One Tiny Turtle, Surprising Sharks
Lydia Corry and Sally Gardner
Laura Dockrill – Lorali, Aurabel
Abi Elphinstone – Sky Song,
Maz Evans – Who Let the Gods Out series, VI Spy
Victoria Eveleigh – Midnight on Lundy
Natasha Farrant – The Children of Castle Rock
Vivian French – Captain Crankie and Seadog Steve, Growing Frogs, How Billy Hippo Learned to Swim
Sally Gardner - I, Coriander, Invisible in a Bright Light
Lisa Glass – Blue, Air, Ride
Julia Green – The Edge of the World, Seal Island
Kiran Millwood Hargrave – The Girl of Ink & Stars, The Island at the End of Everything
Rachel Hickman – One Silver Summer
Catherine Hyde – The Princess Blankets
Nicolette Jones – The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea
Liz Kessler – The Emily Windsnapp series, North of Nowhere, Read Me Like a Boy, When the World Was Ours
Elizabeth Laird – Song of the Dolphin Boy
M.G. Leonard – Beetle Boy, Beetle Queen, Twitch, The Highland Falcon Thief, Murder on the Safari Star
Gill Lewis – White Dolphin, A Story Like the Wind, Sky Hawk, A Street Dog Named Pup
Robert Macfarlane – The Wild Places, The Lost Words
James Mayhew – Mrs Noah’s Pockets
Geraldine McCaughrean – Where the World Ends, The Orchard Book of Greek Myths, The Odyssey (Puffin Classics)
Hilary McKay – Fairy Tales, Dolphin Luck, Binny for Short
Tom Moorhouse – The River Singers, The Rising, The New Adventures of Mr Toad: Toad in Troubled Waters
Jackie Morris – The Seal Children, The Lost Words, Mrs Noah’s Pockets, The Ice Bear
Michael Morpurgo – Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea, Why the Whales Came, Kensuke’s Kingdom
Chris Riddell – Ottoline at Sea, Goth Girl and The Pirate Queen
Katherine Rundell – The Explorer, Rooftoppers, The Good Thieves, The Book of Hopes
Lauren St John – Dolphin Song, Kidnap in the Caribbean, The One Dollar Horse, Wave Riders
Marcus Sedgwick – Floodland
Robin Stevens – The Guggenheim Mystery, Murder Most Unladylike series
Jonathan Stroud – The Lost Treasure of Captain Blood
Piers Torday – The Last Wild, The Dark Wild, The Wild Beyond
Jacqueline Wilson – The Longest Whale Song, Twin Tales, Cliffhanger, Buried Alive
Chris Vick - Kook, Storms, Girl, Boy, Sea
Jasbinder Bilan - Asha & The Spirit Bird
Christopher Edge – The Many Worlds of Albie Bright, The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day. The Jamie Drake Equation, Twelve Minutes to Midnight
Elissa Elwick & Philip Ardagh: Stick and Fetch Investigate: Barking up the Wrong Tree
Elissa Elwick: Freddie and Gaston Go to Paris, Little Adventurers: What Bear? Where?
Dr Ben Garrod – So You Think You Know about Tyrannosaurus Rex? So You Think You Know about Triceratops?
Patrice Lawrence – Orangeboy, Indigo Donut, Eight Pieces of Silva
Tamsyn Murray – Instructions for a Second-hand Heart, Baby Zebra Rescue, Completely Cassidy Star Reporter, My So-Called Afterlife
Linda Newberry – Set in Stone, Until We Win, The Brockenspectre, Blitz Boys
Annabel Pitcher – My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece, Ketchup Clouds
SF Said – Varjak Paw, The Outlaw Varjak Paw, Phoenix
Alom Shaha – Mr Shaha’s Recipes for Wonder: Adventures in Science around the Kitchen Table
Holly Smale – Geek Girl series
LA Weatherly: Angel, Broken Sky