1. Hello, World! Solar System by Jill McDonald Every young child loves to look up at the moon in the night sky. Here’s a Hello, World! board book that can teach toddlers all about the sun, moon, stars, and planets—with
HOLIDAY 2021 GIFT GUIDE: PICTURE BOOKS
1. Fatima’s Great Outdoors by Ambreen Tariq Sadie is a little girl with a big imagination. She has been a girl who lived under the sea and a boy raised by wolves. She has had adventures in wonderland and visited
HOLIDAY 2021 GIFT GUIDE: EXPLORE THE WORLD, KIDS
FOR THE KID WHO WANTS TO LEARN ABOUT THE UNIVERSE AND THEIR PLACE IN IT THE ANIMALS THE ENVIRONMENT THE UNIVERSE
HOLIDAY 2020 GIFT GUIDE: YOUNG ADULT
FOR THE YOUNG ADULT AND THE YOUNG AT HEART 1. Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro Xochitl is destined to wander the desert alone, speaking her troubled village’s stories into its arid winds. Her only companions are the
HOLIDAY 2021 GIFT GUIDE: AMATEUR NATURALIST
FOR THE PERSON WHO LOVES FLORA AND FAUNA IN EQUAL MEASURE 1. World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction—a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way
HOLIDAY 2021 GIFT GUIDE: THE TRAVELER
FOR THE PERSON WHO CANNOT STILL THEIR FEET 1. The Women I Think About at Night: Traveling the Paths of My Heroes by Mia Kankimäki In The Women I Think About at Night, Mia Kankimäki blends travelogue, memoir, and biography
HOLIDAY 2021 GIFT GUIDE: AESTHETIC FEAST
FOR THE PERSON WHO APPRECIATES FORM AS MUCH AS FUNCTION 1. The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands, Edited by Huw Lewis-Jones Amid a cornucopia of 167 full-color images, we find here maps of the world as envisaged in
HOLIDAY 2021 GIFT GUIDE: LITERARY GRAZER
FOR THE PERSON WHO LIKES THEIR STORIES IN SNACKABLE PORTIONS 1. My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university
HOLIDAY 2021 GIFT GUIDE: POP CULTURE AFICIONADO
FOR THE PERSON WHO CASUALLY REFERENCES CHARACTERS FROM POP CULTURE AS THOUGH THEY’RE FRIENDS 1. The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace Perry Today’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes, both fictional and real, but
HOLIDAY 2021 GIFT GUIDE: LITERARY CONNOISSEUR
FOR THE PERSON WHOSE LOVE OF BOOKS IS ONLY RIVALED BY LOVE FOR THE OBSCURE 1. Inferno: A Poet’s Novel by Eileen Myles From its beginning—“My English professor’s ass was so beautiful.”—to its end—“You can actually learn to have grace.
