Under the sea books for 0-5

A wiggly, slippery fish, a knobbly spiny starfish and swaying rubbery seaweed are just a few interesting words to listen to and shapes to look at in this seaside-inspired book for babies.

Lucy Cousins brings her bold and bright illustrations to a set of books for babies featuring fish. This sturdy board book counts from one to ten with brightly coloured fish on each page.

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.

Although he looks small and ordinary, Tiddler is a fish who loves to tell tall tales. But one day he is swept up in a fisherman’s net and then thrown back in to an unfamiliar part of the sea.

Embark on a mini ocean adventure with this vibrant, interactive book that introduces life under the sea, complete with beautiful illustrations and irresistible flaps.

Featuring Axel Scheffler’s bright, friendly and recognisable animal illustrations and a lighthearted rhyming text, children can also mix the animal names, poems AND animal pictures up to create amusing hybrids.

Explore the wonders of life in the seas in this beautifully illustrated search and find book.

This interactive book has big, easy-to-use flaps for little fingers to open up and look underneath, where they’ll find an amazing surprise!

In this suspenseful and gently humorous picture book, Mummy Penguin goes off to hunt for fish whilst Little Penguin and Daddy Penguin watch on. Will she make it back safely with dinner? 

Meet Fergus, who is a real deep-sea creature. But we can only see his eyes. What could he be? An enjoyable anarchic mash-up of fiction and non-fiction, with facts at the end, and a surprise reveal.

Follow a whale and its mother through the deep ocean as it grows up and learns how to survive on its own. Breathtakingly beautiful and deeply moving.

A vibrant picture book all about the incredible bodies of water which make up most of our planet, providing young readers with a lively introduction to the importance of looking after the world’s oceans.