14 Best Marine Life Books
Marine Life is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Marine Life audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 14 Marine Life audiobooks below.
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Emperor Penguin (Young Zoologist)
- By: Dr. Michelle LaRue
- Narrator: Katharine Chin
- Length: 25 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 03, 2023
- Language: English
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5(2 ratings)
5(2 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.001.99 USDThis audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is Emperor Penguin (Young Zoologist).“Up close and personal with the world’s largest penguin…Informative and winning.” —Kirkus TakeThis audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is Emperor Penguin (Young Zoologist).
“Up close and personal with the world’s largest penguin…Informative and winning.” —KirkusTake to the Antarctic ice to study emperor penguins in this beautiful nonfiction field guide for kids.
You might know that emperor penguins are the largest penguin species, but there’s so much more to learn about this flightless bird. Turn the pages to discover what makes them undertake epic journeys every year, and how scientists have spotted their poop from space! Filled with simple science and plenty of animal facts, this book also explains what makes emperor penguins such great ocean swimmers, and how their cute chicks manage to stay warm in freezing Antarctic conditions. It also looks at the conservation challenges these iconic animals face due to climate change and melting sea ice.
Written by penguin professor Dr. Michelle LaRue, Emperor Penguin (Young Zoologist) is part of an exciting new series of animal books from Neon Squid aiming to inspire the next generation of biologists and conservationists.
Also available: Humpback Whale, Giant Panda, African Elephant
A Macmillan Audio production from Neon Squid.
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A Whale of the Wild
- By: Rosanne Parry
- Narrator: Hope Newhouse
- Length: 4 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Greenwillow Books
- Publish date: September 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.19(1078 ratings)
4.19(1078 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USD“A spellbinding, heart-stopping adventure.” –Booklist (starred review) “A dreamily written, slyly educational, rousing maritime adventure.” —New York Times Book Review In the stand-alone companion to the New York“A spellbinding, heart-stopping adventure.” –Booklist (starred review)
“A dreamily written, slyly educational, rousing maritime adventure.” —New York Times Book Review
In the stand-alone companion to the New York Times-bestselling A Wolf Called Wander, a young orca whale must lead her brother on a tumultuous journey to be reunited with their pod. This animal adventure novel explores family bonds, survival, global warming, and a changing seascape. Includes information about orcas and their habitats.
For Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family’s matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Vega must use every skill she has to lead her brother back to their family. The young orcas face a shark attack, hunger, the deep ocean, and polluted waters on their journey. Will Vega become the leader she’s destined to be?
A Whale of the Wild weaves a heart-stopping tale of survival with impeccable research on a delicate ecosystem and threats to marine life. New York Times-bestselling author Rosanne Parry’s fluid writing brings the Salish Sea and its inhabitants to vivid life. An excellent read-aloud and read-alone, this companion to A Wolf Called Wander will captivate fans of The One and Only Ivan and Pax.
Includes extensive backmatter about orcas and their habitats.
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Pearl
- By: Molly Idle
- Narrator: Kim Mai Guest
- Length: 6 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 20, 2019
- Language: English
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4.09(1013 ratings)
4.09(1013 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.98 USDCaldecott Honor author-illustrator Molly Idle dazzles with an original mermaid tale about how small, persistent actions can achieve great things. Sometimes the tiniest light can shine the brightest! Like the other mermaids of the deep, Pearl longsCaldecott Honor author-illustrator Molly Idle dazzles with an original mermaid tale about how small, persistent actions can achieve great things.
Sometimes the tiniest light can shine the brightest! Like the other mermaids of the deep, Pearl longs to care for the endless beaches, coral reefs, and towering kelp forests of her vast ocean world. So when her mother asks her to tend to a mere grain of sand, Pearl is heartbroken. It takes all her patience and determination to discover how even the littlest mermaid can transform the world.
Caldecott Honor-winning author and artist Molly Idle has masterfully crafted a modern classic in this mesmerizing tale about the immense power of small actions.
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War of the Whales
- By: Joshua Horwitz
- Narrator: Holter Graham
- Length: 13 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.06(1266 ratings)
4.06(1266 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDWinner of the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: “Horwitz’s dogged reporting…combined with crisp, cinematic writing, produces a powerful narrative…. He has written a book that is instructive and passionateWinner of the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: “Horwitz’s dogged reporting…combined with crisp, cinematic writing, produces a powerful narrative…. He has written a book that is instructive and passionate and deserving a wide audience” (PEN Award Citation).
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Six years in the making, War of the Whales is the “gripping detective tale” (Publishers Weekly) of a crusading attorney, Joel Reynolds, who stumbles on one of the US Navy’s best-kept secrets: a submarine detection system that floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity sound–and drives whales onto beaches. As Joel Reynolds launches a legal fight to expose and challenge the Navy program, marine biologist Ken Balcomb witnesses a mysterious mass stranding of whales near his research station in the Bahamas. Investigating this calamity, Balcomb is forced to choose between his conscience and an oath of secrecy he swore to the Navy in his youth.
“War of the Whales reads like the best investigative journalism, with cinematic scenes of strandings and dramatic David-and-Goliath courtroom dramas as activists diligently hold the Navy accountable” (The Huffington Post). When Balcomb and Reynolds team up to expose the truth behind an epidemic of mass strandings, the stage is set for an epic battle that pits admirals against activists, rogue submarines against weaponized dolphins, and national security against the need to safeguard the ocean environment. “Strong and valuable” (The Washington Post), “brilliantly told” (Bob Woodward), author Joshua Horwitz combines the best of legal drama, natural history, and military intrigue to “raise serious questions about the unchecked use of secrecy by the military to advance its institutional power” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). -
Coral Reefs: A Journey Through an Aquatic World Full of Wonder
- By: Jason Chin
- Narrator: Elizabeth Cottle
- Length: 42 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 20, 2018
- Language: English
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4.06(1 ratings)
4.06(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDDuring an ordinary visit to the library, a young girl pulls out a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities ofDuring an ordinary visit to the library, a young girl pulls out a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide there.
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Berenstain Bears Under the Sea
- By: Mike Berenstain
- Narrator: Lance Rubin
- Length: 10 minutes
- Publisher: HarperFestival
- Publish date: April 19, 2016
- Language: English
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4.01(153 ratings)
4.01(153 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.000.99 USDThe Berenstain Bears dive under the ocean to discover life below the waves! The family meets flying fish, dolphins, sharks, and giant squid while getting a close-up look at undersea plants in this remarkable learning adventure. This 8×8The Berenstain Bears dive under the ocean to discover life below the waves! The family meets flying fish, dolphins, sharks, and giant squid while getting a close-up look at undersea plants in this remarkable learning adventure. This 8×8 paperback picture book takes young readers on the trip of a lifetime with their favorite bear family.
For more than 50 years, the Berenstain Bears have been delighting children around the world. This latest installment will add to a growing legacy of excellence in children’s literature.
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Oona and the Shark
- By: Kelly DiPucchio
- Narrator: Imani Parks
- Length: 6 minutes
- Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
- Publish date: March 22, 2022
- Language: English
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4(371 ratings)
4(371 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.002.99 USDThe big sea’s littlest mischief-maker, Oona, is back in another delightful tale from New York Times bestselling author Kelly DiPucchio. Oona loves to share her inventions with her friends. They’re big and bold and LOUD–just likeThe big sea’s littlest mischief-maker, Oona, is back in another delightful tale from New York Times bestselling author Kelly DiPucchio.
Oona loves to share her inventions with her friends. They’re big and bold and LOUD–just like her! But there’s one underwater creature who doesn’t seem to enjoy Oona’s company, or her creations.
Stanley the shark! He doesn’t care for her squeaky unicorn. And he’s far too busy for the Sea Horse Carousel. And oh GOODNESS! Oona’s latest hopping, chopping, and popping inventions just make him angry.
Oona may not know what Stanley likes, but she does know what he doesn’t. And maybe that’s a good place to start. Because mermaids never stop trying…not when there’s a friend out there to make.
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Emperors of the Deep
- By: William McKeever
- Narrator: Timothy Andres Pabon
- Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 25, 2019
- Language: English
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3.98(646 ratings)
3.98(646 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDIn this remarkable groundbreaking book, a documentarian and conservationist, determined to dispel misplaced fear and correct common misconceptions, explores in-depth the secret lives of sharks–magnificent creatures who play an integral part inIn this remarkable groundbreaking book, a documentarian and conservationist, determined to dispel misplaced fear and correct common misconceptions, explores in-depth the secret lives of sharks–magnificent creatures who play an integral part in maintaining the health of the world’s oceans and ultimately the planet.
From the Jaws blockbusters to Shark Week, we are conditioned to see sharks as terrifying cold-blooded underwater predators. But as Safeguard the Seas founder William McKeever reveals, sharks are evolutionary marvels essential to maintaining a balanced ecosystem. We can learn much from sharks, he argues, and our knowledge about them continues to grow. The first book to reveal in full the hidden lives of sharks, Emperors of the Deep examines four species–Mako, Tiger, Hammerhead, and Great White–as never before, and includes fascinating details such as:
- Sharks are 50-million years older than trees;
- Sharks have survived five extinction level events, including the one that killed off the dinosaurs;
- Sharks have electroreception, a sixth-sense that lets them pick up on electric fields generated by living things;
- Sharks can dive 4,000 feet below the surface;
- Sharks account for only 6 human fatalities per year, while humans kill 100 million sharks per year.
McKeever goes back through time to probe the shark’s pre-historic secrets and how it has become the world’s most feared and most misunderstood predator, and takes us on a pulse-pounding tour around the world and deep under the water’s surface, from the frigid waters of the Arctic Circle to the coral reefs of the tropical Central Pacific, to see sharks up close in their natural habitat. He also interviews ecologists, conservationists, and world-renowned shark experts, including the founders of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior, the head of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program, and the self-professed “last great shark hunter.”
At once a deep-dive into the misunderstood world of sharks and an urgent call to protect them, Emperors of the Deep celebrates this wild species that hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of the ocean–if we can prevent their extinction from climate change and human hunters
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Other Minds
- By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Narrator: Peter Noble
- Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 07, 2017
- Language: English
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3.87(14601 ratings)
3.87(14601 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDPhilosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branchPhilosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds
Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to identify individual human keepers, raid neighboring tanks for food, turn off lightbulbs by spouting jets of water, plug drains, and make daring escapes. How is it that a creature with such gifts evolved through an evolutionary lineage so radically distant from our own? What does it mean that evolution built minds not once but at least twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter?
In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how subjective experience crept into being–how nature became aware of itself. As Godfrey-Smith stresses, it is a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind’s fitful development, Godfrey-Smith shows how unruly clumps of seaborne cells began living together and became capable of sensing, acting, and signaling. As these primitive organisms became more entangled with others, they grew more complicated. The first nervous systems evolved, probably in ancient relatives of jellyfish; later on, the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous mollusks, abandoned their shells and rose above the ocean floor, searching for prey and acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so. Taking an independent route, mammals and birds later began their own evolutionary journeys.
But what kind of intelligence do cephalopods possess? Drawing on the latest scientific research and his own scuba-diving adventures, Godfrey-Smith probes the many mysteries that surround the lineage. How did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart? What is it like to have eight tentacles that are so packed with neurons that they virtually “think for themselves”? What happens when some octopuses abandon their hermit-like ways and congregate, as they do in a unique location off the coast of Australia?
By tracing the question of inner life back to its roots and comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives, Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind–and on our own.
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When You Adopt a … Starwhal
- By: Matilda Rose
- Narrator: Cassandra Morris
- Length: 9 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 28, 2020
- Language: English
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3.82(26 ratings)
3.82(26 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDEveryone in Fairyland knows that Mrs. Paws is the perfect pet matchmaker! She has flying piglets, baby griffins, and even pugicorns. She has a knack for knowing what pets are right for each princess, prince, or mermaid! Millie the Mermaid loves herEveryone in Fairyland knows that Mrs. Paws is the perfect pet matchmaker! She has flying piglets, baby griffins, and even pugicorns. She has a knack for knowing what pets are right for each princess, prince, or mermaid! Millie the Mermaid loves her new pet, Starwhal, who is an adorable narwhal with the power to turn anything sparkly and shimmery. But is there enough Starwhal magic for everyone in Coral Cove?
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Clark the Shark: Tooth Trouble
- By: Bruce Hale
- Narrator: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 7 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: December 30, 2014
- Language: English
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3.78(219 ratings)
3.78(219 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.002.99 USDDon’t shed a tear, ’cause there’s nothing to fear! Clark the Shark has a loose tooth and needs to visit the dentist. But he’s heard that the dentist is scarier than a box of blue whales! Uh-oh, and oh no! Can Clark find a wayDon’t shed a tear, ’cause there’s nothing to fear!
Clark the Shark has a loose tooth and needs to visit the dentist. But he’s heard that the dentist is scarier than a box of blue whales! Uh-oh, and oh no! Can Clark find a way to stay cool when it comes to tooth trouble?
Beginning readers will be entertained and reassured by this clever, funny twist on a dentist visit in this I Can Read story featuring their favorite boisterous shark. The back matter also includes fun, bite-sized facts about shark teeth!
With lively text from Bruce Hale, this Level One I Can Read is perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences.
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The Ballad of Tubs Marshfield
- By: Cara Hoffman
- Narrator: Gary Furlong
- Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: November 10, 2020
- Language: English
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3.76(65 ratings)
3.76(65 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDFans of Sara Pennypacker and Katherine Applegate will love this thrilling environmental fable–filled with laughter, music, and adventure. There’s no other place Tubs Marshfield would rather be than singing a song in his perfect littleFans of Sara Pennypacker and Katherine Applegate will love this thrilling environmental fable–filled with laughter, music, and adventure.
There’s no other place Tubs Marshfield would rather be than singing a song in his perfect little swamp along the Louisiana bayou. His music can make anyone feel happy.
But something terrible is happening within the swamp that even Tubs’ songs can’t fix–and it’s making his neighbors feel sick! No one knows what to do, least of all Tubs.
A mysterious prophecy may hold the key…or send Tubs away from his friends forever.
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Off to the Beach and Other Sandy Stories
- By: Highlights for Children
- Narrator: Highlights For Children
- Length: 8 minutes
- Publisher: Highlights for Children
- Publish date: August 06, 2019
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.002.99 USDFun at the beach! Alex packs toys for a beach trip. Duck and Goose have try a new sport at the lake. Emma realizes that the wild animals should be free, no matter how small. Learn a safe and easy trick for examining sea creatures up close. StoriesFun at the beach! Alex packs toys for a beach trip. Duck and Goose have try a new sport at the lake. Emma realizes that the wild animals should be free, no matter how small. Learn a safe and easy trick for examining sea creatures up close. Stories by Larry Dane Brimner, Dagmar Kost, Marianne Mitchell, and Les Ewen.
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Make Your Bed with Skipper the Seal
- By: Admiral William H. McRaven
- Narrator: Admiral William H. McRaven
- Length: 9 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 16, 2021
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.004.98 USDA seal becomes a Navy SEAL in this children’s adaptation of the #1 New York Times bestselling Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World by Admiral William H. McRaven.As Skipper the seal embarks on NavyA seal becomes a Navy SEAL in this children’s adaptation of the #1 New York Times bestselling Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World by Admiral William H. McRaven.
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As Skipper the seal embarks on Navy SEAL training, he and his hardworking friends learn much more than how to pass a swimming test or how to dive off a ship. To be a great SEAL, you also have to take risks, deal with failure, and persevere through tough times–just as you do in life. (And always remember to make your bed!)
In this entertaining children’s adaptation of his #1 New York Times bestseller, Admiral William H. McRaven shares life lessons from Navy SEAL training and encourages young readers to become their best selves.
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