Best Titanic Nonfiction Books for Kids

New Titanic book from Scholastic

Some new books about the Titanic have been published close to the 104th anniversary of the shipwreck.

This is my favorite one, and I think it would make a great resource for teachers who are wanting to teach things about science and social studies through the lens of the Titanic.

It's published by Scholastic and has a lot of great photos and infographics as well as all kind of fascinating little factoids about the Titanic and its passengers.

Here is a resource list with reviews of all kinds of nonfiction Titanic books .

Best Titanic Chapter Books for Kids

Best Titanic Chapter Books for Kids

The anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic steamship is coming up soon, and it's time to get this list to girls and boys who are mesmerized by the story. The past few years have seen several new books. The one in the "I Survived" series is probably the most popular. This series has done wonders with making historical fiction cool again. 

Dancing and Singing on the Titanic

The Dancing Girl (painting and silk cloth) in Lululaund mansion.  Image Credit

I typed the word “Titanic” into the album field of Freegal and found lots of collections of Titanic music.

One called Back to Titanic includes tracks from the motion picture that they didn’t get on the first album. You can get “An Irish Party in Third Class,” “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” and “Nearer My God to Thee,” among others.

One called Music Aboard the Titanic has several pieces of music that were popular in 1912 - ragtime, light classical, and waltzes.

Another is Titanic Tunes: A Sing-Along in Steerage which includes rousing songs like “The Man on the Flying Trapeze” and “Glorious Beer.”

And the last is Titanic: Music As Heard on the Fateful Voyage. This album includes many of the songs mentioned by passengers who survived the shipwreck. Tracks include "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Shine on Harvest Moon," and "Songe d'Automne," which many credible survivor accounts indicate was the last song played by the band.

Titanic Tunes, Flicks, Portents, and Everything Else You Could Want

The Titanic sank 101 years ago.  See the site Remembering the Titanic for music, books, films, recipes.

Today is the 101^st anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. It’s a story that fascinates with the convergence of wealth, nature, arrogance and coincidence.

I should know. I spent a year and a half reading, researching, watching, and listening to all things Titanic.

Here’s my master site with all the best books, movies, and music: Remembering the Titanic.

Incidentally, the 2 CD’s  I highlight Music Aboard the Titanic  and Titanic; Music As Heard on the Fateful Voyage are available for free download from Freegal. I wish I had known that before I downloaded some of the songs from Amazon.

Here’s a bunch of other stuff I put together:

Titanic Recipes  This book has recipes that were used for all the different classes on the Titanic. It also tells you how to re-create that last meal—all you need is three free days and an extra sous chef or two.

Portents of Doom  No kidding. Several years before the Titanic sank, a man wrote a novel about a huge ocean liner full of rich and complacent people that sank. I gathered quite a few those kinds of portents for this article

Things You Never Knew About the Titanic  They were never trying to set a speed record. And they wouldn’t have been able to deploy all the lifeboats even if they’d had them.

Molly Brown  Other than being “unsinkable” on the Titanic, she was quite a remarkable person in her own right.

Get Your Titanic Music on Freegal: Songs for the 101st Anniversary

Jazz musician Carl Wolff chose representative songs from the Titanic's playlist for this collection.

Musician and jazz composer Carl Wolf chooses several pieces of music that were popular in 1912 - ragtime, light classical, and waltzes - and groups them by the venue in which they were most likely played from a First-Class Dinner Dance to Tea in the Palm Court.

The Memphis Jazz Band, a strings-and-piano chamber group, performs such tunes as "The Maple Leaf Rag," "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," "The Merry Widow Waltz," and "Blue Danube." The last selection is "Nearer My God to Thee," which was reported by some survivors to be the last piece played.

The whole album is available for free download on Freegal.