Read This Book! – Books to Give

University of Minnesota Librarians discuss the books they plan to give and the ones they’d love to get as gifts this holiday season in a very special episode of Read This Book! Genres covered include children’s literature, mysteries, cookbooks, and cool science.

Lisa Von Drasek, curator of the University’s Children’s Literature Research Collections, leads the discussion. She’s joined by Tim Johnson, curator of the U’s Rare Books and Special Collections and the Sherlock Holmes Collection, Science Librarian Carolyn Bishoff, and Megan Kocher, curator of the Doris Kirschner Cookbook Collection.

Recommended books include:

• May Day: A Murder-By-Month Mystery
  By Jess Lourey
• Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders
  By Larry Millet
• Dear Committee Members
  By Julie Schumacher
• The Science of Interstellar
  By Kip Thorne
• The Girls of Atomic City
  By Denise Kiernan
• A subscription to the magazine “Make” 
• Vegetable Literacy
  By Deborah Madison
• Smitten With Squash
  By Amanda Paa
• Gluten-Free Girl Every Day
  By Shauna James Ahern with Daniel Ahern
• Tales from the Brothers Grimm
  Selected and Illustrated by Lizbeth Zwerger
• An Illustrated Treasury of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
  Illustrated by Anastasiya Archipova
• The Right Word
  By Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet
• Animalium
  Curated by Katie Scott and Jenny Broom

More about our collections

Want to know more about our collections? Click the links below or contact one of the he librarians featured in this episode of Read This Book!

• Rare Books and Special Collections
• Sherlock Holmes Collection
• Children’s Literature Research Collections
• Kirschner Cookbook Collection blog
• Unique Science Collections in Walter Library
• Archives and Special Collections

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