While She Knits - Holiday Gift Edition

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Who else besides me is getting ready to buy the gift that keeps on giving?  Books for the holidays!

What books are you giving as gifts?  And what books for yourself are you sneaking onto to that Amazon order because, well, you have that free shipping anyway, right? 

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For the little guy? How about "Press Here," or "Finger Worms," by Hervé Tullet? The 5 year old will enjoy them, too (and so will you).

For her, if she likes cats at all, how about Viviane Schwarz? "There are Cats in This Book" and its sequel, "There Are No Cats in This Book" are both wonderful (the 2 year old will like them, too).

Or, if she's a princessy type of girl, and you want to expand her horizons a bit beyond Disney, you could try anything illustrated by Kinuko Craft (http://www.kycraft.com/index.html). (Her latest project is a version of "Beauty and the Beast," but I'm not sure it'll be ready for Christmas. But all of her books are gorgeous!) Jan Brett, Demi, or Tomie De Paolo are all excellent choices, too. (I think classics like "Strega Nona" or "Adelita" never get old :-D).

Ranging a little further afield, Joseph Bruchach's retellings of Native American myths and legends are a lot of fun. Maybe she would like something like "Raccoon's Last Race?" It's pretty awesome! Or, travelling around the world a little more, "Tasty Baby Belly Buttons," by Judy Sierra (Japan) "Little Rooster's Diamond Button" by Margaret Read MacDonald (Hungary), "Fat Cat," again by MacDonald (Denmark), "The Gift of the Crocodile," again Judy Sierra (Indonesia) -- or, for China, anything by Ed Young (Lon Po Po is the classic example).

Or maybe you could buy them some classics to grow into, like the Narnia stories, or "The Thief" :-D

~and here's hoping you get some of the books you want, yourself!

~D.