OUR FAVORITE PORTSMOUTH HISTORY BOOKS FOR KIDS
Compiled by J. Dennis Robinson 2015

 POEMS FOR CHILDREN
by Celia Thaxter (1864)

STORY OF A BAD BOY
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1869)

THE OLD TOWN BY THE SEA
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1875)

CRUISES WITH CAPTAIN BOB

& THE DOUBLE RUNNER CLUB
by BP Shillaber (1880, 1882)

THE HEROIC LIFE OF CAPT. JOHN PAUL JONES
by Eldredge S. Brooks (1902)

BRENDA’S WARD

by Helen Leah Reed (1906)

POEMS ABOUT PORTSMOUTH
by Clara A. Lynn (1929)

SOME THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
by Edith Gilman Brewster (1922)

NEW ENGLAND COLONIAL DAYS
by Marcelle Laval Duffe (1941)

CELIA’S LIGHTHOUSE
by Anne Molloy Howells (1949, reprinted 1976)

UP & DOWN NEW HAMPSHIRE
by Lillian Bailey (1960)

HOME ON STAR ISLAND

& A BOY OF THE SHOALS
by Christina M. Welch (1962, 1975)

BECKY: GRANDMOTHER OF NH
by Alice Clark Haubrich (1966)

PORTSMOUTH: THE LIFE OF A TOWN
by Ola Elizabeth Winslow (1966)

MYSTERY AT THE SHOALS
by Diane Bradley (1976)

THE FORT & THE FLAG
by Louise Grant (1977)

OX-CART MAN
by Donald Hall (1979)

LADY GHOST OF THE ISLES OF SHOALS
by Peter Paul Jesep (1992)

VANISHED AS SHE SANG
by Clayton Emery (2000)

A CHILD OUT OF PLACE
by Patricia Q. Wall (2004)

THE ESCAPE OF ONEY JUDGE

by Emily Arnold McCully (2006)

A PRIMARY SOURCE HISTORY OF THE COLONY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
by Fletcher Hautley (2006)

NEW HAMPSHIRE: 1603-1776
by Alan Taylor (2007)

GOOD MORNING, STRAWBERY BANKE
by Wickie Rowland (2010)

TUGBOAT RIVER RESCUE!
by Crystal Ward Kent (2012)

THE PORTSMOUTH ALARM
by Terri A. DeMitchell (2013)

USS ALBACORE SUBMARINE: WELCOME ABOARD
by Denise Brown (2015)

Courtesy of SeacoastNH.com