Wonderful Water: the best children's non-fiction books

November is National Non-Fiction Month! Celebrate the best fact books with this list of recommended non-fiction titles from the Federation of Children's Book Groups. All titles are free to borrow with your library card.

Take a look at our other recommendations for children.

Non-fiction

• Hey, Water!, by Antoinette Portis
• Big Outdoors for Little Explorers: Seaside, by Anne-Kathrin Behl
• Look What I Found at the Seaside, by Moira Butterfield and Jesús Verona
• One Day on Our Blue Planet... In the Ocean, by Ella Bailey
• Protecting Our Planet: Ice Journey of a Polar Bear, by Martin Jenkins and Lou Baker-Smith
• Earth's Aquarium, by Alexander C Kaufman and Mariana Rodrigues
• Oceanarium, by Teagan White and Loveday Trinick
• Can You Get Rainbows in Space?, by Dr Sheila Kanani and Liz Kay
• Protecting the Planet: Emperor of the Ice, by Nicola Davies and Catherine Rayner
• My First Book of Sea Creatures, by Zoe Ingram
• Sharks! Sharks! Sharks!, by Susan Martineau and Vicky Barker
• Earth's Incredible Places: Amazon River, by Sangma Francis and Rômolo D’Hipólito
• The Sea: Exploring Our Blue Planet, by Miranda Krestovnikoff and Jill Calder
• The Sea Below My Toes, by Charlotte Guillain and Jo Empson
• The Big Book of Blue, by Yuval Zommer
• Sea Change: Save the Ocean, by the International Centre for the Picture Book in Society
• Blue Planet II, by Leisa Stewart-Sharpe and Emily Dove
• The Secret Life of Oceans, by Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker
• Mission Arctic: A Scientific Adventure to a Changing North Pole, by Katharina Weiss-Tuider
• Wild Child: A Journey Through Nature, by Dara McNulty and Barry Falls
• Rivers: An Incredible Journey from Source to Sea, by Simon Chapman and Qu Lan
• How Do Bridges Work?, by Roman Belyaev
• Mind Mappers: Are We Running Out of Water?, by Isabel Thomas and El Primo Ramón
• Caring Conservationists Who Are Changing Our Planet, Kate Peridot and Sarah Long
• Above and Below: Sea and Shore, by Harriet Evans and Hannah Bailey
• Islands: Explore the World's Most Unique Places, Ben Lerwill and Li Zhang
• The Wonderful World of Water: From Dams to Deserts, by Sarah Garre and Marijke Huysmans
• Water: Protect Freshwater to Save Life on Earth, by Catherine Barr and Christiane Engel
• No-Dig Children's Gardening Book, by Charles Dowding and Kristyna Litten

Poetry

• Swim, Sharl, Swim!, by Dom Conlon and Anastasia Izlesou
• The Rhythm of the Rain, by Grahame Baker-Smith
• Poems from a Blue & Green Planet, by Sabrina Mahfouz and Aaron Cushley
• Once Upon a Raindrop, by James Carter and Nomoco

Myths & legends

• The Mermaid of Zennor, by Charles Causley and Michael Foreman
• The Moon in Swampland, by M.P. Robertston
• The Seal Children, by Jackie Morris
• The Mousehole Cat, by Antonia Barber and Nicola Bayley
• Selkie, by Gillian McClure
• Please Mr Magic Fish, by Jessica Souhami