I buy books for my family at Christmas, and they buy books for me. It all works out very nicely. Here's what I'm getting them this year (which of them would you want?)
For my 9 year old son:Warriors Super Edition: Yellowfang's Secret, and
Warriors: Battles of the Clans Erin Hunter
Mal and Chad: Food Fight! Stephen McCranieSimon's Dream (Fog Mound) Susan Schade
For my 12 year old son:August Moon, Diana Thung
Baffling and Bizarre Inventions, Jim Murphy (currently hidden so well for Christmas that I can't find it. Sigh.)
Faradawn (Fog Mound), Susan Schade
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Big Bad IroncladThe Darwin Awards Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool Wendy Northcutt (another one I hid really, really well. whah.)
For my husband:Three of these he asked for, the rest were picked up over the course of the year, and miraculously I didn't hide any of them too well (although it's possible there are more little mouse nests of book presents somewhere that I've forgotten all about...)
The Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood
The Ingenious Edgar Jones, Elizabeth Garner (Alan Garner's daughter; he's a huge fan of his, so I thought he'd find it interesting. I think I'll find it interesting too--have any of you all read it? It is a YA/adult fantasy that came out in 2010)
It All Turns on Affection (Paperback), Wendell BerryLondon's Overthrow, China Mieville
The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way, Michael Phillips
Bento's Sketchbook, John Berger
A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership, Wendell Berry
The annotated
Hunting of the Snark For my mother: Birds of Melanesia: Bismarcks, Solomons, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia (Princeton Field Guides), Guy Dutson (her request)
Existence, by David Brin (it's nice to have a mama whose reading taste overlaps with one's own--although I'm not looking forward to dipping into the Birds of Melanesia, I'm am excited about reading this one!)
For my sister: The Moomins and the Great Flood, by Tove Jansson (again, it's nice to give books that one wants to read--it save on having to pack books for oneself. I'm pretty sure this one is still at work....I hope)
and one secret one that she doesn't know about (if you aren't Emily, feel free to highlight to see what it is)
Bright Island, by Mabel L. Robinson
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