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Collection of books to gift each year on birthdays

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Fruitteatime · 20/09/2019 17:51

When dd turned one I bought her the Animalium book from the Welcome to the Museum series that had just been published. They are lovely, big illustrated books. Each year they have published a new one book for the series so we have inadvertently given her one for each birthday. She is five now and they are publishing another this year. Ds will turn one soon and I'd like to do similar for him. I'm really stumped as to which books to get him. I don't mind if it's fiction or non fiction, but I would quite like the books to look appealing and beautiful.

My other thought was to give him the new books from the Welcome to the Museum series and to start dd off on another collection that she could either read herself or for me to read to her. That way they can share the Welcome to the Museum series.

Would love to hear your recommendations for a series or collection of books!

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Cornishblues · 22/09/2019 21:18

What about choosing a hardback/lovely edition of something each birthday, without worrying about a series as such or even being age-appropriate to start with as he will have access to his sister’s books? By the time he is 5 or 6 you will have a lovely little collection.

CheerfulMuddler · 25/09/2019 13:05

How about starting DD on the illustrated hardback Harry Potters? They are beautiful, and it wouldn't matter too much if she was too young to read them yet, as she'd have the new Welcome to the Museum book to share with DS.

Fruitteatime · 26/09/2019 09:30

Yes I suppose it wouldn't have to be a series. I did go to the book shop but nothing in particular inspired me. I suppose I wanted a series because I tend to give random books at Christmas but for dds birthday she has always had the Welcome to the Museum books and I already feel sad that ds won't have as many presents as her just because we already have a million toys.

We do have all the Harry Potters but not illustrated, I'm not sure how I feel about having them illustrated. One of the best parts of reading them for the first time for me was imagining the characters and Hogwarts. Though I'm sure they are beautiful!

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LoveGrowsWhere · 04/10/2019 12:08

What about books by Eric Carle? They are beautifully & colourfully illustrated. The Mixed Up Chameleon was a favourite here but we had a few.

Or go for the Beatrix Potter classics?

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