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Books about Maine

The Must-Have-Aboard Book List for a Cruise in Maine

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Children's Books - Pre School:

Counting Our Way to Maine

by Maggie Smith

List Price: $15.95; Price: $11.17

L is for Lobster - A Maine Alphabet

by Cynthia Furlong Reynolds, Jeannie Brett (Illustrator), Cynthia Furlong Reynolds

List Price: $16.95; Price: $11.87

Little Toot and the Lighthouse (Little Toot Takes a Trip to Maine)

By Linda Gramatky-Smith

$2.95

Children's Books Ages 4-8:

My First Book About Maine (The Maine Experience)

by Carole Marsh, Kathy Zimmer

List Price: $7.95

Nellie the Lighthouse Dog

by Jane Scarpino (Illustrator), Robert Ensor (Illustrator), Jane Weinberger (Editor)

List Price: $9.95

Mabel Takes a Sail

by Emily Chetkowski, Dawn Peterson (Illustrator)

List Price: $10.50 ; Price: $8.40

Newberry: The Life and Times of a Maine Clam

by Marie Litterer (Illustrator), Vincent G. Dethier

$15 out of print but many available

One Morning in Maine (Picture Puffin)

by Robert McCloskey

List Price: $6.99

Many of Robert McCloskey's books are set in Bucks Harbor. The little town – where Mr. Condon's garage still stands – is a short walk from Bucks Harbor Marine. The '03 Cruise itinerary has the fleet passing quite near so this could be a fun lunch stop for kids who know the books well.

Burt Dow, Deep-Waterman: A Tale of the Sea in the Classic Tradition (Picture Puffins)

by Robert McCloskey

List Price: $6.99

Time of Wonder

by Robert McCloskey

List Price: $19.99; Price: $13.99

Blueberries for Sal (Picture Puffins)

by Robert McCloskey (Illustrator)

List Price: $6.99

Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie (1st Avenue)

by Connie Roop, Peter Geiger Roop, Peter E. Hanson (Illustrator)

List Price: $6.95

Ages 4-8

Birdie's Lighthouse (Aladdin Picture Books)

by Deborah Hopkinson, Kimberly Bulcken Root (Illustrator)

List Price: $5.99

Children's Books - Ages 9-12:

The Call of the Running Tide: A Portrait of an Island Family

by Nancy Price Graff, Richard Howard (Illustrator)

Used & new from $5.75

Out of Print but used available - A sympathetic, realistic portrait of a lobster-trapping family on Swan's Island, Maine, showing their activities throughout the year. Written in 1992

AYC will spend a night in Burnt Coat Harbor on Swan's Island and (we hope) there will be an opportunity for the kids to spend a few early morning hours with an Island Lobsterman on his boat.

Great State of Maine Activity Book

by Jane Petrlik Smolik

List Price: $9.95

Meeting Melanie

by Nancy Garden

List Price: $16.00 Disc Price: $11.20

Ages 9-12

My First Book About Maine (The Maine Experience)

by Carole Marsh, Kathy Zimmer

List Price: $7.95

Maine: A Myreportlinks.Com Book (States)

by Amy Graham

List Price: $19.95, Used $15.95

Maine: The Way Life Is: A Year of Wicked Good Poetry

by Robert Pottle, Jonathan Siruno (Illustrator)

List Price: $7.95

Trick or Treat Murder: A Lucy Stone Mystery

by Leslie Meier

$24.00

One of a whole series of Lucy Stone Mysteries set in Maine

 

Books for Teens:

BIGFOOT Stalks the Coast of Maine and other twisted downeast tales

by Thomas A. Easton

List Price: $14.95; Price: $10.47


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