A Bookish Gift Guide for Young Readers
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When buying holiday gifts, books are always a good choice. (We would say that, wouldn’t we?) When it comes to buying for kids, books are an especially great choice.
To help you in the latter department this year, we're offering a gift guide for those with young bookworms in their lives. Below, you'll find a range of recommendations for brand-new proto-readers (babies!) to younger teens (13 to 15 years old). For these recommendations, we turned to a kid-lit expert for help: Seira Wilson, editor for the Amazon Book Review.
Seira can’t remember a time when she wasn’t a die-hard book lover, and one of her favorite things is helping other people discover books that they love. After more than 20 years in the book industry, she lives in a house brimming with bookshelves full of great reads, including an insane number of children's books and young adult novels. You can find more of Seira's coverage about books here, and be sure to check out further bookish suggestions for kids with the 2023 Amazon Book Editors’ children's books gift guide.
Hover over the book cover images for details about each title, or click through for more information. You can keep track of potential gift ideas with the Want to Read button.
Board books for babies' bookshelves
Picture books you won't get tired of reading over and over
For the child who loves planes, trains, and automobiles
Beautiful gift books that will knock their socks off
Chapter books that will create a lifelong love for reading
For the sports-obsessed kid
Great graphic novels for big and small kids
Boxed sets that will keep middle schoolers hooked
More mythology for the kid who's already read the entire Percy Jackson series twice
Books to convince your middle schooler that reading can be fun
Young adult novels suitable for younger teens
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2023 - "Middle Grade & Children's" category is removed.
Very, very disappointing. Could this be an error??
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2023 - "Middle Grade & Children's" category is removed.
Very, very disappointing. Could this be an error??"
Massive shame. They also removed the Graphic Novels and Comics category and instead they put Romantasy? Really?
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2023 - "Middle Grade & Children's" category is removed.
Very, very disappointing. Could this be an error??"
In judgement, yes. They removed cookbooks too and lumped science together with non-narrative nonficiton
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To me that category sounds like someone really wants a book to win in a category and they are creating some BS category just so that book can win it.
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To me that category sounds like someone really wants a book to win in a category and th..."
its the opposite. Fantasy readers were asking for this category FOR YEARS because they were sick of Romantasy books (aka books they didn't view as "Fantasy enough") winning the Fantasy category. It was created to alleviate that. Still shouldn't have replaced graphic novels or middle grade, though.
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Based on what? "younger teens" is 13 at the youngest. The Cruel Prince and Inheritance Games, as well as the other two mentioned, are both about teens and have clean romances compared to their peers. I'm sure that's why they were picked, along with their popularity. There is no reason a 14-yo couldn't pick up either of those books and be just fine :\
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