Give Books! Great Holiday Gifts for Children
Why books? Long after the wrapping paper, ribbon and boxes are gone, books will be pulled out again and again. These stories will help us go to sleep, calm our fears and make us dream. The characters found in the books we share become part of our family and their stories become part of our own. Best of all, these books work their magic, bringing us always closer together.
"When you not only hear a treasured story, but also are pressed against the most important person in the world, a connection is made that cannot be severed." - Maurice Sendak
Nothing compares to the joy of giving and sharing books with those you love. So, come to the library for storytime and curl up with a good book at home. Happy Holidays from Richland Library!
Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for BABIES
Amazon Says: Bold graphic artwork and enticing die-cuts make for a bedtime read-aloud as infectious and irresistible as a . . . well, you know! Sean gave a YAWN While sitting on hi...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for BABIES
Amazon Says: A playful favorite from Mem Fox is now a Classic Board Book!After meeting a bevy of baby animals—including a clever monkey, a hairy warthog, and a dusty lion cub—t...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for BABIES
Amazon Says: Now in a Classic Board Book edition, "Dear Zoo" long has been a lap-time favorite. The story starts with a letter to the zoo requesting a pet. But as the colorful flaps reveal...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for BABIES
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for BABIES
Amazon Says: Oh, baby! Leslie Patricelli’s one-haired wonder returns to revel in Christmas. It’s almost Christmas, and baby simply cannot contain the exuberance. There are thin...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for TODDLERS
Amazon Says: A life lesson that all parents want their children to learn: It’s OK to make a mistake. In fact, hooray for mistakes! A mistake is an adventure in creativity, a portal of di...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for TODDLERS
Amazon Says: Uses the same signature format and style as the series' previous titles. The question "Who am I?" and a linked written clue invites kids to lift the first portion of the folde...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for TODDLERS
Amazon Says: Adorable toddlers have fun with ballet Bea loves everything about ballet class, from putting on her leotard and ballet slippers to bowing good-bye at the end of class. Bright...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for TODDLERS
Amazon Says: Toddlers love machines and things that go, and this book gives them everything they want, from a bucket truck to a tower crane to an airplane. Every other spread has an intera...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for TODDLERS
Amazon Says: One by one, 10 very hungry rabbits find 10 very yummy vegetables for Mama Rabbit's soup pot. Caldecott Honor Book artist Anita Lobel combines learning to count with color conc...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for PRESCHOOL
Amazon Says: Once upon a time, there were three hungry Dinosaurs: Papa Dinosaur, Mama Dinosaur . . . and a Dinosaur who happened to be visiting from Norway. One day—for no particular rea...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for PRESCHOOL
Amazon Says: Bubble is a goldfish who swims round and round unhappily in his tank. Cat is his friend and wishes he could show him the world. One day, Cat has an idea to set Bubble free. Bu...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for PRESCHOOL
Amazon Says: WINNER OF THE 2013 CALDECOTT MEDAL! From the creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling and award-winning I Want My Hat Back comes a second wry tale. When a tiny f...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for PRESCHOOL
Amazon Says: Lottie Paris may be precocious, but she still knows how to act like a kid. She dresses up, she plays on the slide, she eats cookies instead of vegetables. She has a great imag...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for PRESCHOOL
Amazon Says: 'Twas the day before Christmas and Santa was ill.
In the cold winter wind he had caught a bad chill.
Will Christmas be canceled? Will it come to that?
"Never!" ...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for BEGINNING READERS (Grades 1-2)
Amazon Says: 'Tis the season for worrying, planning, decorating, wrapping, entertaining, carolling and, worst of all, fruitcake! Scaredy Squirrel returns with a quirky safety guide filled ...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for BEGINNING READERS (Grades 1-2)
Amazon Says: Seymour Chwast celebrates the daily routine of getting dressed in this fittingly whimsical and satisfyingly unique novelty book. Unlike more traditional books on this topic th...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for BEGINNING READERS (Grades 1-2)
Amazon Says: When Penny receives asurprise box in the mailfrom Gram, she is thrilled.The surprise is a doll,and she is absolutely perfect,from her head to her toes.Penny loves her immediat...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for BEGINNING READERS (Grades 1-2)
Amazon Says: Winner of a 2013 Caldecott Honor and the 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Excellence in Picture Books. It looks like an ordinary box full of ordinary yarn. Bu...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for BEGINNING READERS (Grades 1-2)
Amazon Says: Over the snow, the world is hushed and white. But under the snow is a secret world of squirrels and snowshoe hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many other animals who live thr...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Grades 3-5)
Amazon Says: A hamsterific celebration of the best time of the year Room 26 is abuzz. The students are making costumes and practicing their special songs for the Winter Wonderland program...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Grades 3-5)
Amazon Says: If a black hole is not a hole, then what is it? Find out what black holes are, what causes them, and how scientists first discovered them. Learn how astronomers find black hol...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Grades 3-5)
Amazon Says: The moon is missing from the remote Village of Clear Sky, but only a young boy named Rendi seems to notice! Rendi has run away from home and is now working as a chore boy at t...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Grades 3-5)
Amazon Says: Don't miss The Rise of the Guardians, soon to be a major motion picture in theaters November 2012.Before SANTA was SANTA, he was North, Nicholas St. North—a daredevil...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for MIDDLE SCHOOL
Amazon Says: When Dmitri, an 11-year-old bird watcher and math whiz, loses his mother to breast cancer, he is taken in by Mrs. Martin, an elderly white woman. Unaccustomed to the company o...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for MIDDLE SCHOOL
Amazon Says: The world already knows Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, Calvin O'Keefe, and the three Mrs--Who, Whatsit, and Which--the memorable and wonderful characters who fight off a dark ...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for MIDDLE SCHOOL
Amazon Says: The world is at the brink of ruin . . . or is it salvation? Astaroth has been weakened, and the demon Prusias is taking full advantage of the situation to create an empire of ...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for MIDDLE SCHOOL
Amazon Says: In The Son of Neptune, Percy, Hazel, and Frank met in Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Camp Halfblood, and traveled to the land beyond the gods to complete a dangerous qu...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for HIGH SCHOOL
Amazon Says: They called her Water Claire. When she washed up on their shore, no one knew that she came from a society where emotions and colors didn’t exist. That she had become a Vesse...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for HIGH SCHOOL
Amazon Says: The New York Times bestseller! Sparkling white snowdrifts, beautiful presents wrapped in ribbons, and multicolored lights glittering in the night through the falling snow. A...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for HIGH SCHOOL
Amazon Says: In a desert world of sandstorms and sand-wolves, a teen girl must defy the gods to save her tribe in this mystical, atmospheric tale from the author of Drink, Slay, Love.<...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for HIGH SCHOOL
Amazon Says: Three-time Coretta Scott King Award–winner Angela Johnson writes a wrenching, honest book about surviving the unimaginable and finding a way to go on.Scotty compares...
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Rebecca K. Says: Recommended for HIGH SCHOOL
Amazon Says: Is death the end . . . or only the beginning? Ethan Wate has spent most of his life longing to escape the stiflingly small Southern town of Gatlin. He never thought he would m...
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