Books about the seaside

Lots of humour and irrepressibly rakish pirates combine in this entertaining book about looking beyond appearances

Once there was a sad, lonely penguin who appeared at the door of a young boy. The boy decided he must be lost, so he set off to find his home.

This book by the award-winning Gruffalo partnership is about a tiny snail who longs to see the world, and the enormous grey-blue humpback whale who gives him a lift on his tail.

Philip Reeve and Sarah McInytre have joined forces to create a wonderfully wacky nautical tale.

Beattie, Mimi and Zelda will change the way you see mermaids forever as they attempt to save their home of Swirlyshell in this delightfully silly story from the author of Witch Wars.

Why has Emily’s mother kept her away from the water all her life? A magical story, with vivid scenes of an undersea world and a delightful heroine.

The Little Mermaid lives happily under the sea, but her older sisters’ tales of what they see on the surface of the water start to make her yearn for something more.

A fantastic graphic novel from the team at children’s comic The Phoenix, this is a page-turning adventure with a great main character in brave, athletic and reckless Tamsin.