Ginger Park & Frances Park
Official Website of Award-Winning Authors of Adult & Children's Books
RECENTLY RELEASED & Forthcoming:
The hundred choices department store
a historical young adult novel
by ginger Park, Spring 2022 (Fitzroy Books)
That lonely spell
A memoir-in-essays
by frances Park, Spring 2022 (Heliotrope Books)
Grandpa's Scroll
A picture book
by Ginger Park & Frances Park, Spring 2023
(Albert Whitman & Co.)
The summer my sister was cleopatra moon
A novel
by frances park, fall 2023
(Heliotrope books)
blue rice
a historical novel
by frances park, summer 2024
(vine leaves press)
OUR BOOKS
That Lonely Spell
Heliotrope Books
Grandpa's Scroll
Albert Whitman & Co Books
Goodbye, 382 Shin Dang Dong
National Geographic Books
Where On Earth is My Bagel?
Lee and Low Books
The Have a Good Day Cafe
Lee and Low Books
My Freedom Trip: A Child's
Escape from North Korea
Boyds Mills & Kane
The Hundred Choices Department Store
Fitzroy Books
The Royal Bee
Boyds Mills & Kane
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
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
Goodbye, 382 Shin Dang Dong
Teachers' Pick
Notable Book for a Global Society
Newsweek magazine praised it as 'The Perfect All-American Story"
Where On Earth is My Bagel?
NEWS & EVENTS
Ginger's middle grade novel THE HUNDRED CHOICES DEPARTMENT STORE was selected by Best of Korea as a 2022 BEST BOOK BY KOREAN AMERICAN AUTHORS.
Ginger was the feature author for the Gaithersburg Book Festival Podcast with Anita Fox. Enjoy!
Exciting News: Book cover reveal for GRANDPA'S SCROLL by We Need Diverse Books.
Ginger's "My Turn" personal essay on what inspired her children's historical novel THE HUNDRED CHOICES DEPARTMENT STORE was featured in Washington FAMILY.
An excerpt from Frances' collection of personal stories THAT LONELY SPELL was featured in the March 2022 issue of Northern Virginia Magazine.
Ginger's middle grade historical novel THE HUNDRED CHOICES DEPARTMENT STORE was featured on NPR's All Things Considered on local affiliate WAMU.org! Click here and enjoy the listening: WAMU. Click here and enjoy the read: DCist. Also, the novel is a CBC March 2022 Selection! This unique online bibliography features anticipated bestsellers, either recently published or forthcoming, published by CBC members.
The Park Sisters are delighted to announce the recent acquisition of their picture book GRANDPA'S SCROLL to Albert Whitman & Company. Release date: March 1, 2023.
Frances' short story "The Summer My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon" appears in the inaugural issue of COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2022.
CONTACT
Frances: bookbabe.frances@gmail.com
Ginger: gingerpark952@gmail.com
Park Sisters' Children's Books agented by Jennifer Unter at