With the holidays around the corner, winter break offers a great opportunity to spend extra time with your children reading excellent books. High-quality books are an integral part of early literacy education. Offering children a balance of fiction and nonfiction reading experiences can provide gorgeous illustrations, compelling text, and opportunities to learn.

Whether you are shopping for a gift or cozying on the couch, check out our Holiday Book Collection for some of this season’s best titles. Share this list with your friends and family and spread the joy of reading this season.

narrated by Jenna Braastad

Angela Dominguez

A bilingual picture book that’s sweet enough to eat about a chatty bluebird and an indecisive T. Rex who can’t decide what his next meal should be, introducing readers to basic Spanish and English food vocabulary. 

JaNay Brown-Wood and Elissambura

Baby is finally asleep. But everyone is much too loud! Can Mom, Daddy, Grammy, Pop Pop, Shae, Dante, Rover the dog, and even the neighbor keep quiet? Just when they think they can rest—oh no. The baby's awake. One savvy little narrator knows just the way to make his baby sister fall back asleep: by reading her a good book!

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, and Daniel Sousa

An Indigenous legend about how four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirit, or Mahu, brought healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii, based on the Academy Award–contending short film.

Angélica Dass

By depicting people from all over the world against a background that matches their skin tone, Angélica Dass shows us how wonderfully colorful humans really are, questioning the concept of race and the limited categories we use to describe each other.  Through a playful and dynamic layout, The Colors We Share encourages looking, questioning, and thinking bigger―inviting us to think about race, and our common humanity, in a new way.

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