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A Literacy Holiday Gift Guide From LINC

Books are an incredible gift – they help us comprehend the world, find our voice, and become active participants in our communities. That’s why, with your support, LINC helps provide books for families to create their own home libraries.


And it’s because of donors like you that the LINC team is able to handpick books for our programs that feature diverse and inclusive content, encouraging equitable representation in children’s literature and reflecting LINC communities across the city. When children sees themselves in a book, they see themselves in the world!


We are so grateful to have a community of supporters like you who understand that literacy is a powerful and joyful gift that everyone deserves.

Here is a gift from us to you: a list of books we use for our programs and recommend for gifting, curated just for you by the LINC staff!


AGES 0-2


  • I Will Talk to You, Little One by Phyllis Grann

  • La Bamba by Susie Jaramillo

  • Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni

  • Little Chickies / Los Pollitos by Susie Jaramillo

  • Look, Look by Peter Linenthal

  • My First 100 Dino Words in English and Spanish by Emma Garcia

  • My First 100 Ocean Words in English and Spanish by Emma Garcia

  • Press Here by Hevre Tullet

  • See Touch Feel: Baby Sign by Roger Priddy

  • Vámonos! by Cynthia Weill


AGES 3-5


  • Brick by Brick by Heidi Woodward Sheffield

  • Everybody in the Red Brick Building by Anne Wynter

  • Have You Ever Seen a Flower? by Shawn Harris

  • Hot Dog by Doug Salati

  • How to Say Hello to a Worm by Kari Percival

  • Knight Owl by Christopher Denise

  • Olu & Greta by Diana Ejaita

  • Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe

  • Ready, Set, Run!: The Amazing New York City Marathon by Leslie Kimmelman

  • Ten Blocks to the Big Wok by Ying-Hwa Hu

  • Thank You, Omu by Oge Mora

  • The More We Get Together by Celeste Cortwright 

  • The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld

  • The Truth About the Couch by Adam Rubin


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