# How This Book Got Red

**Author:** Margaret Chiu Greanias
**Grade range:** Grades K–2
**Age range:** 4–8
**First published:** 2023
**Genre:** Picture Book
**ISBN-13:** `9781728265650`
**ISBN-10:** `1728265657`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/how-this-book-got-red
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Red the red panda is tired of every "panda" book being about giant pandas — so she and her friend set out to make a book of their own, in a warm story about identity and belonging. a 2025-2026 Virginia Readers' Choice (Primary) nominee.

## Themes

- identity
- friendship
- belonging

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice 2025-2026 Award Nominee Lists (Elementary + Middle School)](https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/english-reading-literacy/virginia-readers-choice)
- **recommended** · 1st grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice 2025-2026 Award Nominee Lists (Elementary + Middle School)](https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/english-reading-literacy/virginia-readers-choice)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice 2025-2026 Award Nominee Lists (Elementary + Middle School)](https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/english-reading-literacy/virginia-readers-choice)

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