Here are some of the books I’m giving as gifts this year. And I say some because I think there are others I’ve already wrapped and forgotten. But I assure you, they’re winners. And I also say some because you never know when, at the very last minute, I may need one… last… book…
(Which takes me back to yesterday’s post. Please tell me that books don’t count as stuff. Please. ‘Cause if they do, I’m sunk.)
Anyway, here’s the partial list:
The next installment of Sisters Grimm
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
So Many Fish, So Little Time
Because of Winn-Dixie
Santa Claus The World’s Number One Toy Expert
Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire
People with Dirty Hands
A Sock is a Pocket for Your Toes
I’m almost scared to ask in case you give me some really good ideas, but what books are you putting under the tree?
(… eternally grateful for books…)
I like Lisa Wheeler’s WHERE OH WHERE IS SANTA CLAUS?
Merry Christmas to you! 🙂
Oh, I just saw that at the bookstore last week! She’s soooooo clever!
My eighteen year old daughter wanted a new set of Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet, and my husband is getting “Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point.” I’m hoping for the illustrated Elements of Style. Oh, and I’m giving my sister Haven Kimmel’s newest book, The Used World.
Oh, yes. I remember your post about Elements of Style. I haven’t heard much about The Used World but I liked A Girl Names Zippy.
The books I’ve gotten so far for people are:
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Shug by Jenny Han
Today I will Fly by Mo Willems
I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
Oh, the Stephen Colbert one is supposed to be very, very funny. Of course.
Yay, Sara, for Haven Kimmel gifts!
Liz, I’m not actually giving books this year to my girls, ’cause I have received a whole lot of picture book review copies this year. But for my niece, I’m giving Mary and the Mouse, The Mouse and Mary. And Random House has a great new encyclopedia (for all ages) about dinosaurs (which I hope to review soon) that I sent to my friend with three boys (and we have a copy, and my girls love it, too. My oldest is obsessed with dinosaurs).
I am firmly in the books-are-not-stuff camp, though I do struggle with how many to keep and how many to give away, esp. since I get review copies. The part of me that thinks she wants to perhaps get a doctorate in children’s lit one day wants to keep them all for my future office full of books — just like my children’s lit prof from grad school, whom I love and still keep in touch with, who I’d go visit in her office and she’d hand over a book to me from the books surrounding her in her lair of an office! The other part of me wants to give them away and unclutter. I’m just torn.
I haven’t been able to read your blog in a while, and I’ve been missin’ out.
Jules, 7-Imp
Jules. Honestly. You might have to get that degree JUST for that office. That lair. Oh, I am really coveting that office and I haven’t even seen it…