It’s the season of giving, and we’ve put together a young readers gift guide! Listed below are picture books, middle grade and young adult titles to gift the small human and/or emerging adult in your life. Get them, read them, love them today!
- Violet Shrink is written by Christine Baldacchino and illustrated by Carmen Mok. It’s the FOLD Kids Book-of-the-Month for November and has been featured in the What’s the Buzz event.
- Once Upon an Hour is written by Ann Yu-Kyung Choi and illustrated by Soyeon Kim. It’s the FOLD Kids Book-of-the-Month for October. Soyeon Kim was at the 2020 FOLD Kids Book Fest this past fall.
- Two Drops of Brown in a Cloud of White is written by Saumiya Balasubramaniam and illustrated by Eva Campbell. It’s the FOLD Kids Book-of-the-Month for December.
- Ryan Lion: Hide and Seek is written by Andre Wright and Anthony-Marcel Wright. This past summer, they discussed their experience creating the book on Instagram.
- The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson: It’s the FOLD Kids Book-of-the-Month for October, has been a Young Readers Book Club pick and has been featured in the Fantastic Fiction for Young Readers event.
- Music for Tigers by Michelle Kadarusman: It’s the FOLD Kids Book-of-the-Month for December and has been featured in the What’s the Buzz event.
- Haunted Hospital by Marty Chan: It’s been featured in the What’s the Buzz event and Marty Chan has discussed writing scary stories on Instagram for Halloween.
- Ciel by Sophie Labelle: It’s been featured in the What’s the Buzz event.
- Facing the Sun by Janice Lynn Mather: It’s the FOLD Kids Book-of-the-Month for November and has been featured in the What’s the Buzz event.
- One Earth: People of Color Protecting Our Planet by Anuradha Rao: It’s featured in the One Earth: Youth Rally for the Planet event.
- The Silence of Bones by June Hur: It’s been featured in the This Really Happened: True-to-Life Stories for Young Readers event.
- Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe: It’s been featured in the What’s the Buzz event.
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