Boats

Books tagged with "boat" may be non-fiction about boats themselves or a non-fiction maritime account. The tag will also be used for fiction books where at least part of the story takes place on a boat.

See Transport, Maritime, Nautical
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Little Tug
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
The Old Boat
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Sail Away (Rise and Shine)
Boats on the Bay: A Picture Book
I'm Mighty!: A Harbor Picture Book About a Small Tugboat Pulling Big Ships for Kids (Ages 4-8) (Kate and Jim Mcmullan)
Who Sank the Boat? (Paperstar)
Old MacDonald Had a Boat
Mighty Tug
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
Mr. Gumpy's Outing
Death on the Nile by Agatha ChristieThe Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth WareMurder on the Lusitania by Conrad AllenThe Case Of The Blind Barber by John Dickson CarrDead Wake by Erik Larson
Cruising for Crime
68 books — 14 voters
The Historical Encyclopedia of Atlantic Nautical Hazards by Raymond John HowgegoThose Vulgar Tubes by Joe J. Simmons IIIIngenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved by Stuart M. FrankShipwreck Anthropology by Richard A. GouldShip Shape, a Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook by Roy R. Behrens
~~Coughing Up Ships~
219 books — 8 voters

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by RowlingThe Midnight Library by Matt HaigThe Spanish Love Deception by Elena  ArmasJust Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane
Vehicles on the Cover
381 books — 40 voters
Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Odyssey by Homer
Boat Books
781 books — 506 voters

Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskeyMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyScuffy the Tugboat by Gertrude CramptonOne Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskeyThe Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown
Picture Books with Boats
107 books — 8 voters
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey  WoodBoo Hoo Bird by Jeremy TankardMake a Wish Bear by Greg   FoleyFroggy Goes to Bed by Jonathan London
Preschool-"B"
116 books — 17 voters

Gary Paulsen
“ ...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath... ”
― Gary Paulsen, Caught by the Sea

John F. Kennedy
“ I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the s ...more ”
― John F. Kennedy

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