The Best Submarine Books for Kids

A hunt for a sea monster ends aboard the Nautilus, the most famous submarine in fiction.

You climb into Alvin, drop two miles through dark water, and go to work on the ocean floor.

An inventor’s submarine sinks wrong, leaks badly, rolls over — and gets rebuilt after every failure.

Ms. Frizzle turns the school bus into a submarine and drives the class from the shore to the deep-ocean floor.

Two mice design their own submarine and cross the Atlantic in search of a family treasure.

A child lingers behind on a submarine field trip and discovers that something enormous lives beside the shipwreck.

Rabbit, Bird, and Mouse dive in a bright little submarine and introduce its working parts along the way.

Choose a submersible, a pilot, and a dive site, then see whether your expedition finds a giant squid.

American submariners enter the Pacific war after Pearl Harbor with old boats, incomplete charts, and a job no one else can do.

Jack and Annie find a mini-sub on a coral reef, then meet an octopus, a shark, and two timely dolphins.

Captain Nemo’s twelve-year-old descendant leaves his hidden underwater home in a high-tech rescue submarine.

After a German U-boat nearly kills his brother, a twelve-year-old lies about his age and goes to sea.

A sixteen-year-old survivor records an 1866 voyage aboard Captain Nemo’s Nautilus as if the journal had just been found.

The Baudelaire orphans board the submarine Queequeg and descend to a grotto holding one of the series’ worst discoveries.

A short, direct explanation of the machines that travel, hide, and work beneath the surface.