Whether your family has plans to travel abroad this year or are simply dreaming of far away places for now, the New Orleans Public Library has books for any reader bitten by the Travel Bug.
Children:
Young readers can travel across the globe—across busy highways and crowded airports, with strollers and toys—to return home and reunite with Mama in Goodbye Hello: A Going Home Travel Adventure by Angela H. Dale & Daniel Wiseman. Featuring travel by car and plane across the world, this fast and fun picture book is a great introduction to the many different legs of international travel for the smallest members of your family.
From the New York Times bestselling team behind Parker Looks Up, comes an early-reader adventure with Parker Takes a Trip, by Parker Curry, Jessica Curry, Brittany Jackson, and Tajae Keith. Follow along as Parker and her family fly to Portugal to visit her grandparents, and take in new sights, new food, and new modes of travel.
Middle Grade:
In his feel-good coming-of-age memoir, best-selling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat shares his life-changing middle school trip to Europe during which he experiences a series of firsts, including first love. A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat is a funny, heartwarming, and poignant celebration of a time that is universally challenging for many of us, but also life-changing as well.
Lonely Planet Kids’ The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World is sure to inspire the travel-hungry kid in your life. Readers go on a thrill-packed journey across our world, continent by continent. Packed with thousands of facts about everything from amazing animals and super sights to fun festivals and fabulous food, it’s the ultimate guide to all the incredible—and incredibly diverse—places that make up our planet!
Teen:
A Bánh Mì For Two by Trinity Nguyen follows as a Vietnamese American college student, Viv, embarks on a secret study-abroad semester in Vietnam. Along the way, she meets Lan, the girl behind her favorite food blog, and the two form an undeniable connection while unraveling their families’ histories and eating all the street food in Sài Gòn.
Ravynn K. Stringfield’s Love Requires Chocolate is a sweet YA romance novel sure to satisfy the budding Francophile in your family. Ready to have an epic semester abroad in Paris, theater nerd Whitney Curry anticipates a grand adventure but instead struggles with schoolwork, homesickness, and mastering the French language until her cute tutor teaches her lessons about the real Paris—and love.
For families looking to travel in their own city, the Library’s Culture Pass Program allows Orleans Parish residents and Library cardholders to visit a variety of attractions across the city for free, including The Audubon Nature Institute (the zoo, aquarium, and insectarium!), the National WWII Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, Historic BK House & Gardens, and more.
For details and to reserve a pass, visit culturepass.nolalibrary.org.