Ideas for book gifts
The MotherReader has a great list of ways to give books this Christmas. Here are a few of her ideas:
- Pair a classic Raggedy Ann or Winnie-the-Pooh book with its character stuffed animal.
- Pair a book with a related stuffed animal, like Where’s My Teddy? with a teddy bear. Or Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type with a stuffed cow — or if you prefer, a slingshot cow.
- Pair Bubble Bath Pirates or Beasty Bath with a cool rubber duck, even a huge rubber duck.
- Pair The Snow Globe Family with a snow globe.
- Pair Lilly’s Big Day or Fancy Nancy with dress-up clothes.
- Pair Toys Go Out with a red bouncy ball, or a stuffed stingray or buffalo.
- Pair a nonfiction book about dinosaurs, like Boy! Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs, with a bunch of plastic ones.
- Pair Amazing Sharks! and A Shark Pup Grows Up for beginning readers and throw in a shark on a stick.
- Pair a book like The Spiderwick Chronicles with the DVD.
- Pair a theme book like Katie and the Mustang with a horse charm and a satin cord from a craft store.
