Children’s Library Holiday Gift Suggestions

Boston Athenaeum Children’s Library

Holiday Gift Suggestions 2010

 

Picture books

  • The Nutcracker, by AnnMarie Anderson
  • Little Red Riding Hood, illustrated by Gennady Spirin (also one illus. by Christopher Bing)
  • Last Song, by James Guthrie
  • 13 Words, by Lemony Snicket, illus. by Maira Kalman
  • Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, by Eric Litwin
  • Beaver is Lost, by Elisha Cooper
  • Stable, by Ted Lewin
  • Chiru of High Tibet, by Jacqueline Martin Briggs
  • Polar Opposites, by Erik Brooks
  • Three Little Dassies, by Jan Brett
  • April and Esme, Tooth Fairies, by Bob Graham
  • There’s Going to Be a Baby, by John Burningham
  • Who Stole the Mona Lisa? by Ruthie Knapp

Middle Grades

  • Clementine, Friend of the Week, by Sara Pennypacker
  • Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, by Maryrose Wood
  • Night Fairy, by Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Touch Blue, by Cynthia Lord
  • Reckless, by Cornelia Funke
  • Bink & Gollie, by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee
  • Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester, by Barbara O’Connor

Young Adult

  • Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Mamba Point, by Kurtis Scaletta 
  • Worldshaker, by Richard Harland
  • Crack in the  Sky, by Mark Peter Hughes
  • I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett

For Parents

  • A Family of Readers, by Roger Sutton and Martha Parravano