ginger park & frances park
Official Website of Award-Winning Authors of Adult & Children's Books
RECENTLY RELEASED & Forthcoming:
suka's farm
A Historical picture book by Ginger park & frances park, spring 2025
(albert whitman and Company)
sinuiju baeksun department store
South korean translation of
THE HUNDRED CHOICES DEPARTMENT STORE
BY GINGER PARK
july 2025
​(HELLO ROBIN BOOKS)
blue rice
a historical novel
by frances park
June 2024
(vine leaves press)
My Sister's Doljabi
A cultural celebration Picture book
by ginger park & frances park
fall 2025
(ALBERT WHITMAN and company)
OUR BOOKS
Sinuiju Baeksun Department Store by Ginger Park (for domestic orders contact gingerpark952@gmail.com. To order in South Korea: Hello Robin Books
Blue Rice
Vine Leaves Press
The Summer My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon
Heliotrope Books
The Hundred Choices Department Store
Fitzroy Books
Grandpa's Scroll
Albert Whitman & Co Books
The Royal Bee
Boyds Mills & Kane
The Have a Good Day Cafe
Lee and Low Books
Goodbye, 382 Shin Dang Dong
National Geographic Books
My Freedom Trip: A Child's
Escape from North Korea
Boyds Mills & Kane
Where On Earth is My Bagel?
Lee and Low Books
That Lonely Spell
Heliotrope Books
Chocolate Chocolate Memoir
Thomas Dunne Books
AWARDS
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My Freedom Trip
International Reading Association's Children's Book Award
IRA-CBC Teachers' Choice Award
Notable Books for a Global Society Award
NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book For Young People
Children's Literature Book Award
Capitol Choices Book Award
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The Royal Bee
Joan G. Sugarman Award for Children's Literature
Parents' Choice Award
Capitol Choices Book Award
Bank Street College Book Award
A Junior Library Guild Selection
The Have A Good Day Cafe
Paterson Prize Book for Young Readers
"Book of the Month" Pick by Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children
A Rutgers University "Top Five" Book Award
Choices-Cooperative Children's Book Center
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Goodbye, 382 Shin Dang Dong
Teachers' Pick
Notable Book for a Global Society
Newsweek magazine praised it as 'The Perfect All-American Story"
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Where On Earth is My Bagel?
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School Visits
Invite the Park Sisters to your school for a fun-filled afternoon as they take you on a journey into their writing world (includes a PowerPoint presentation, reading of one of their books, and Q & A.).
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Presentations are 45 minutes.
Contact: Gingerpark952@gmail.com
or visit us at: AuthorBookings.com
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NEWS & EVENTS
Please join Frances on Saturday, May 17, 2025 at the Gaithersburg Book Festival at 4:15 in the Gertrude Stein Pavilion featuring her latest historical novel BLUE RICE, a finalist in the 2024 Foreword Indies Awards for multicultural fiction.
CONTACT
Frances: bookbabe.frances@gmail.com
Ginger: gingerpark952@gmail.com
Park Sisters' Children's Books agented by Jennifer Unter at