Not sure how it happened, but the holiday season is upon us, so we asked Natalie Nelson, illustrator of The King of the Birds to choose some of her favorite picture books by women. These books are perfect for the little readers on your list—but who are we kidding, we’d love to have these on our shelves as well.

For the next post about book recommendations from around the world, we travel to India, a country with a rich literary tradition in dozens of languages, regions, and cultures. With such a wide range of literature to choose from, it's easy to feel at a loss to where to start. We asked Resh, the brilliant mind behind The Book Satchel instagram account, to reccomend some books by Indian women writers.

Many thanks to our friend Agata for writing this post about Eastern European women in translation for #WITMonth. Agata is a hippie at heart, happy to live out of her suitcase as long as she has her ukulele and a good book on hand. Born in Poland, she found a new home in Estonia. She is a book blogger over at aquedita.eu.