Jennifer Krauss Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Jennifer Krauss is a children's book editor. @NYTimes Children's Books Editor

Book of Questions
Pablo Neruda
Gorgeous, dreamlike illustrations add dimension to 70 of the Nobel Prize-winning poet’s 320 questions, presented in picture-book form for the first time.
Hardcover, 2022
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Mac Barnett
The troll is as hungry for language as he is for goats, and the soft pink, brown and gray pictures feel born of the oldest soil, in this wry retelling of the Norwegian folk tale.
Hardcover, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shuna's Journey
Hayao Miyazaki
First published in Japan in 1983 and finally translated into English, this picture book from the fabled animator is eerie, enchanting and surpassingly strange.
Hardcover, 2022
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Patchwork
Matt de la Peña
The spongework that overlays these portraits of children elucidates the author’s liberating theme: We are not indelibly drawn at birth; our identities shift, blend and bloom.
Hardcover, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Emile and the Field
Kevin Young
From its exquisite endpapers, awash with wildflowers, and its sublime first words, this book about the profound love between a boy and a field captivates.
Hardcover, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Every Night: Billionaire Sweet & Steamy Romance
Lexy Timms
This is a story about one line. "Every night," writes @remytumin, "I find a new and creative way to tell our readers to have a good evening." https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/reader-center/briefings-have-a-good-evening.html
Paperback, 2017
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Summer of Diving
Sara Stridsberg
In this child’s-eye view of a father’s depression, evocative language and lush, color-saturated art show how a girl’s imagination helps her swim through loss and heal.
Hardcover, 2022
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lizzy and the Cloud
Terry Fan
The brilliant Fan brothers once again show us the miraculous in the ordinary, but unlike the colorful marble in “It Fell From the Sky,” this book’s wonder is the meh-est of the meh: your (gloriously) average “cloudy” day.
Hardcover, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Unstoppable Us
Yuval Noah Harari
In the first of four planned volumes, Harari simplifies the provocative ideas about human history that drove his 2015 best seller, “Sapiens,” without dumbing them down.
Paperback, 2024
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book