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Official Website of Award-Winning Authors of Adult & Children's Books

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RECENTLY RELEASED & Forthcoming:

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, Summer
 2023
(Heliotrope books)

blue rice
a historical novel
by frances park, summer 2024
(vine leaves press) 


suka's farm
Historical picture book
by Ging
er park & frances park, fall 2024
(albert whitman & Co)

 

OUR BOOKS

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The Summer My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon

 Heliotrope Books

Grandpa's Scroll

Albert Whitman & Co Books

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That Lonely Spell

Heliotrope Books

Where On Earth is My Bagel?

Lee and Low Books

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The Hundred Choices Department Store

Fitzroy Books

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The Royal Bee
Boyds Mills & Kane

 

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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

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Chocolate Chocolate Memoir

Thomas Dunne Books

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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?

Included in the following collections:

English Fiction Grades PreK-2, Early Fluent Dual Language, Early Fluent English, Asian/Asian American English Collection Grades PreK-2, Realistic Fiction Collection Grades Prek-2 English Guided Reading Level L, Asian American Collection English 6PK 

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Accessories

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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School Honorarium (3 presentations): $695

School Honorarium (2 presentations): $495

Zoom Honorarium (3 presentations): $395

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Presentations are 45 minutes.

 

Outside DC Metropolitan Area, travel expenses apply.

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News and Events

NEWS & EVENTS

Book Events Alert: The Park Sisters have a busy fall lineup! We'll be at the Literary Hill Bookfest at Eastern Market on Capitol Hill on Sunday, September 17 from 11AM to 3PM!

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Book Launch Party at Chocolate Chocolate in Washington, DC for Frances' novel THE SUMMER MY SISTER WAS CLEOPATRA MOON on Wednesday, September 20 from 2PM to 5PM.

 

Fairfax County Public Library's free Local Author Book Festival at Chantilly Regional Library in Chantilly, VA on Saturday, September 30 from 12PM to 3:30PM!

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Eat Local Read Local at Cascades Library in Loudoun, VA from 11AM to 2PM!

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University Club Meet the Authors' Night and Book Fair at the University Club in Washington, DC on Wednesday, November 15 from 5:30PM to 8PM!

 

News Alert: Sue Tarsky at Albert Whitman & Company acquired world rights for the Park Sisters' historical picture book SUKA'S FARM. Pub date: FALL 2024. 

News Alert: Foreign rights for Ginger's middle grade novel THE HUNDRED CHOICES DEPARTMENT STORE were sold to Korean publisher Hello Robin. Publication date: TBA

Coming Soon: Frances' novel THE SUMMER MY SISTER WAS CLEOPATRA MOON (Heliotrope), Fall 2023

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'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.

Contact

CONTACT

Park Sisters' Children's Books agented  by Jennifer Unter at

The Unter Agency

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