While She Knits - Holiday Gift Edition

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FALALALALA LALALALA.

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 five-year-old (and the two-year-old might also enjoy it), there's an adorable book called Press Here, by Herve Tullet. The pictures are dots, in different colors. You do what the book tells you ("Touch the middle dot") and turn the page, and behold! Something has changed!

For the nine year old - Elizabeth Enright. Gone-Away Lake and Return to Gone-Away, and the four Melendy books. Depending on how well she reads, she may need a little help with them but they're wonderful. If she likes horses, has she read the Misty of Chincoteague books? Pippi Longstocking? The Oz books? The Little House books? I second Edward Eager and Mrs. Frisby and Officer Buckle and Frances. (I'm big into the older books, as you can tell).

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Press Here sounds like good fun!

I helped my mom pick out a bunch of horsey books for Nova either last Christmas or birthday, and I'm not really sure if we went with Misty. We ought to have, since I loved that book as a child. I know we bought her some of the Black Stallion books and some from the Thoroughbred series (the latter against my better judgement, as I recently flipped through some of my copies and the series hasn't aged all that well.) My sister had a good number of the Little House books as a kid, so she may or may not have kept them and has let Nova read them, so I hesitate to buy that series for her.

Thank you all for the great suggestions -- I will make a note of them on the Amazon gift lists I have started for all of the kiddos and use them in the holidays to come. :-)