KIDS HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2023

Nov 12

Written By Shari Becker

Looking for great holiday gifts for the young readers in your life?

We’ve compiled the 2021 and 2022 releases written by your Whale Rock friends - instructors and students. Please consider supporting your fellow author friends by including their books on your holiday gift list.

Young Readers

Children of all ethnicities form a circle to hold up the title of this book "All of Us"

All Star: How Larry Doby Smashed the Color Barrier in Baseball

A Chicago Public Library's Best Informational Books for Younger Readers selection Begin with a Bee and its story of the life of one queen bee.

From an all-star team comes a lyrical picture-book biography about a writer and master gardener who created beauty in a harsh island habitat.

Daddy Speaks Love picture book cover features a young African American girl sitting on the shoulders of her Daddy, who is looking up at her lovingly.

Isadora, who's wearing a red dress and a flower in her hair, dances with her grandmother.

A mole peaks through the ground in a garden. In the backgroun sits a white house with a red roof. This is the cover of Home Is...

This board book is shaped like a Christmas tree.

A blue house with red doors is pictured on the green cover of this book.

Several illustrations of a Friar fly around the white cover of this picture book.

On the cover of Mouse Calls picture book is a gray mouse wearing a red hat looks through a magnifying glass.

Fish and sea creatures swim across the cover of "Out of the Blue" picture book.

One sheep stands apart from the rest of a flock on the cover of "One Smart Sheep"

A grandparent and grandchild stand beside the shoreline

J. H. Banning gives a thumbs up as he makes his historic flight. This is what's pictured on the cover of with biography titled Sprouting Wings

A penguin stands in the snow. The sky behind the penguin is filled with colorful stars.

Emerging Readers

Book one of The Boy and Monster series features the title characters on a blue book cover.

Book two of The Boy and Monster series features the title characters on an orange book cover.

Book three of The Boy and Monster series features the title characters on a green book cover.

Middle Grade Readers

Hearts & Crafts Squad Goals book cover features a middle school girl with an open book covering her face.

Hearts and Crafts book Two features a middle school girl holding a gray dog

Big white letters that read "I Can't Do What ?" run across a red book cover

Book Cover of Just Like That by Gary D Schmidt

Book cover of the middle grade novel Lily's Promise

Book Cover of the Middle Grade novel "The Magic In Changing Your Stars."

Book cover of Playing Through the Turnaround

Book Cover of the Prisoner and the Writer

Secret Schools: True Stories of the Determination to Learn

The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson

The Great Bear by David A. Robertson

The Stone Child by David A. Robertson

Wildoak by C.C. Harrington

Willis Wilbur Book One

Willis Wilbur Book Two

Young Adult Readers

Code Name Badass: The True Story of Virginia Hall by Heather Demetrios

Little Universes by Heather Demetrios

Shari Becker

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