- Pair Mo Willems’ book Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus with a toy bus and a cargo truck.
- Pair The Moon with a flashlight and a promise for a nighttime walk or two.
- Pair new-classic Duck and Goose with a bright spotted ball (fans will know why).
- Pair MotherReader favorite The Day the Babies Crawled Away with a baby doll.
- Pair the funny wordless book Once Upon a Banana and a stuffed monkey — but show your sense of humor by throwing a banana into the gift bag.
- Pair silly beginning reader book The Monster in the Backpack with a cute backpack (monster additional).
- Pair classic A Bargain For Frances with a tea set.
- Pair the offbeat book Pecorino Plays Ball with a bat and ball. You can throw in a coupon book for practice sessions.
- Pair Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs with a kazoo.
- Combine sweet Jenny and the Cat Club with a red scarf (don’t worry if it’s too long — so is Jenny’s) and a black cat.
- Pair Clarice Bean Spells Trouble with a game of Scrabble, and some of your time to teach it.
- Pair a drawing book like Draw 50 Airplanes, Aircrafts, and Spaceships or Draw 50 Cats with a couple of nice sketch pads.
- Pair Phineas MacGuire... Erupts! with a science kit, or the next book in the series, Phineas MacGuire... Gets Slimed! with the slime science kit.
- Pair a spy-themed book like Steal Back the Mona Lisa! (picture book), The Case of the Climbing Cat (beginning reader), Harriet the Spy (chapter book) or Secrets, Lies, Gizmos, and Spies: a History of Espionage (nonfiction) with rear-view sunglasses and/or a fingerprint kit.
- Bigger girls like stuffed animals too. How about Hoot with an owl, The World According to Humphrey with a hamster, or Room With a Zoo with a puppy?
- Pair a magic book of your choice with magic tricks.
- Pair The Crafty Diva’s D. I. Y. Stylebook: A Grrrl’s Guide to Cool Creations You Can Make, Show Off, and Share or The Girls’ World Book of Friendship Crafts: Cool Stuff to Make with Your Best Friends with a gift card to a local craft store, and maybe some shopping and crafting time together.
- Pair Knitgrrl: Learn to Knit With 15 Fun And Funky Projects and/or Chicks with Sticks: It’s a Purl Thing with yarn, knitting needles, and a promise for some lessons.
- Pair Ductigami: The Art of Tape with... well, rolls of duct tape.
- Pair King Dork with a CD of The Mr. T Experience.
- It’s not really a toy or separate gift, but take a special book, like Wow! It Sure is Good to Be You (which is about an aunt loving her far-away niece) and make a CD recording of you reading it.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going... making more obsessive lists of books ’n stuff. I went back to look at some of my favorite books of the year — and ever — to see if I could match ’em up. I’ve already covered many of the ideas with the first list, but here are some more.
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3 comments:
Another good one, MR. I laughed out loud at your first selection.
Duck and Goose are adorable, adorable, adorable. Frog and Toad are proud, I think.
Despite my mature age and no children to tell the story with I still want to read books for children. They seem to have plain structure but in truth have many hidden revelations.
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