{"id":2502,"date":"2012-12-10T14:36:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T19:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2012-12-10T14:36:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T19:36:03","slug":"perfect-book-gifts-for-ya-and-little-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/perfect-book-gifts-for-ya-and-little-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Book Gifts! (For YA and Little Kids)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"One of my favorite projects is picking out books for my nieces and nephews for Christmas each year.\u00a0 I have conversations with my husband about the kids and what they\u2019re into lately (soccer, theater, Halo, art, wilderness, princesses, philosophy).\u00a0 I talk to my own kids about their cousins.\u00a0 I have email conversations with some of my sisters about what books their little kids have already read, and I scroll back through my own favorite reads of the year.<\/p>\n

The ideal book is a perfect match for the niece\u2019s or nephew\u2019s time of life and personality, a surprise, and something he or she hasn\u2019t discovered yet.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

At risk of giving away my surprises, (my nieces and nephews have far better things to do than keep tabs on my blog, but in case they see this, I\u2019m keeping recipients vague), here are the titles my husband and I are giving this year.\u00a0 If you\u2019re looking for gift ideas, too, maybe one will strike you.
\nAnd no, I don\u2019t send them my own books for Christmas.\u00a0 Where would be the fun in that?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

F<\/span><\/span>or the college-aged and teens:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Genn Albin, Crewel<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone<\/em><\/p>\n

Kate Burak, Emily\u2019s Dress and Other Missing Things<\/em><\/p>\n

Trish Doller, Something Like Normal<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

David Levithan, Every Day<\/em><\/p>\n

Yann Martel, Life of Pi<\/em><\/p>\n

Marie Rutkoski, The Shadow Society<\/em><\/p>\n

Neal Shusterman, Unwholly<\/em><\/p>\n

Dan Wells, Partials<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

For the little ones, ages 2-9:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

David A. Carter, Builder Bugs<\/em><\/p>\n

Ian Falconer, Olivia and the Fairy Princess<\/em><\/p>\n

Tommy Greenwald and J.P. Coovert, Charlie Joe Jackson\u2019s Guide to Not Reading<\/em><\/p>\n

Irene Latham, Don\u2019t Feed the Boy<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Barbara Lehman, The Red Book<\/em><\/p>\n

Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted<\/em><\/p>\n

George MacDonald, The Light Princess<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Ray Marshall and Wilson Swain, The Castaway Pirates, A Pop-up Tale<\/em><\/p>\n

Mo Willems, Knuffle Bunny<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite projects is picking out books for my nieces and nephews for Christmas each year.\u00a0 I have conversations with my husband about the kids and what they\u2019re into lately (soccer, theater, Halo, art, wilderness, princesses, philosophy).\u00a0 I talk to my own kids about their cousins.\u00a0 I have email conversations with some of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[200,160],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-best-books","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}