Book party favour gifts for a 5th birthday

[optimisticmum4]

Organising my daughter's 5th birthday party and was hoping to hand out books as party favours to the kids (mainly 5y old girls).

Would be grateful for any book recommendations or somewhere I can source this at a good price (already aware of The Works).

Thanks

That's a bold move.

Try amazon.

Try world of books?

Julia Donaldson
Early reader books
A set of Winnie and Wilbur

What's that supposed to mean?!

My DC got a couple of books they loved like this. One had a lovely inscription in it from the family giving DS the book.

How much are you wanting to spend?

Here's a pack of classic picture books that works out at £3 a book. Any good, or are you hoping for cheaper?

https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/145921

We did this with a box set of cat in the hat books one year and it worked out under £2 a book which was great. I can't find that deal just now though.

Or Julia Donaldson £2.70 a book?

https://www.books4people.co.uk/collections/infants-5-7/products/julia-donaldson-the-gruffalo-10bks

Yeah, I'd say Books 4 People is your best bet, loads more options.

Hairy Maclary £2.30 a book.
https://www.books4people.co.uk/collections/infants-5-7/products/dealman-u11-hairymaclary-10bks

Mog the Cat, £2.13 a book
https://www.books4people.co.uk/collections/infants-5-7/products/mog-the-cat-books-8bks

Winnie the Witch £1.56 a book
https://www.books4people.co.uk/collections/infants-5-7/products/korky-paul-winnie-wilbur-collection-16bks

etc...

Have fun choosing OP! A lovely idea IMO :)

Some children are not readers. I have two adopted children wuth learning difficulties who find reading incredibly challenging. They would be deeply upset to be given books at a party.

At 5, surely the expectation is that the books would be read to them, except for the most able of readers?

The vast majority of 5 years olds enjoy having a lovely picture book read to them, surely?

And anyway, you can't please all the people all the time. Not all the DC will like plastic tat either!

The works usually do offers for 10 books for £10. I've known quite a few people do this for party favours

Possibly. I just know that my daughters understood very well the stigma of not being able to read even at 5 and would have felt it hard to be given a book at a party, where fun stuff is more common in party bags.

And my child will probably be allergic to any food in a party bag. Our job as parents isn’t to organise the world around them but to help them cope with disappointments. Your DC are relatively unusual if at 5 they would be distressed by a book. In most families books are “fun stuff” too.

Books sound great @optimisticmum4- having done this before, and been to parties where this happened, you might get the odd comment about “where are the party bags?” but the gift will still be enjoyed a year or more later by a lot of the kids.

And I was a precocious reader with a deep dislike of many genres when i was a child and the chances of someone choosing a suitable book for me when I was 5 would have been tiny. I would have been very upset tbh - I was always upset with the choices people made for me re books.

Iv ordered books for my son’s 4th Birthday from books2doors. I only ordered on Sunday so waiting for delivery but can confirm once I receive. I ordered some paw patrol as my son loves it and they do other 10 books for £10 offers

https://www.books2door.com/products/paw-patrol-favourite-stories-by-nickelodeon-10-books-collection-box-set-ages-3-7-paperback-copy?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=19851533195&gbraid=0AAAAADvHX9e81x6RmjIhImka9fiyHzv7U&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq8ic-PzGkAMVa4NQBh19ugM1EAQYAyABEgKaoPD_BwE

@Arran2024you are being ridiculous! How can anyone be that offended by giving out books to children?! Much better than a pile of tat and sweets!

Books make a good gift, though the kids won’t appreciate them the adults will.

but…

Please don’t get the crappy cheap books 10 for £10. The stories are naff.

And don’t get Julia Donaldson - most kids likely to have got them already by age.

Anything else - great!

At one 5th birthday party, my daughters received a “where’s the poo” book.
a bit like where’s wally, they both love looking at them

https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/where-s-the-unicorn-poo-book-alex-hunter-9781408361207?sku=GOR010167293

We did this one year & handed out the cake in a party bag (venue wasn’t suitable for eating cake on site).

psbooks.co.uk have sets of 10 for as little as £4.99 - The Little Princess, Super Tato, Julia Donaldson etc. We bought a few different sets and let the kids pick / swap incase they already had it at home. Not every child will get the good of the book, but surely someone somewhere will and far better than plastic tat that goes straight to landfill.

And other precocious children might be upset by a bag full of tat contributing to landfill and the suffocation of our planet under mounds of waste.

It’s ok that you don’t choose to do this - we’ve only done it once ourselves - but it’s hardly the terrible faux pas you are suggesting.

The time we did this, the Donaldsons and Elmer books went first. Not all 10 for £10 deals are equal, I saw 10 funnybones books in the works the other day, and that’s obviously awesome. Ditto Hairy Mclairy.