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Christmas Gift Guide – Top Kids Books

October 25, 2018 by Shellie Wilson

This 2018 Christmas gift guide is just for books and just for kids! These Book ideas are perfect for Christmas gifts or any time of the year gifts. They are designed to tap into your childs creativity. You can see the links to each book below. I have to say the sewing book looks like a great idea for my Miss 10!

 

 

 

Wood Shop:

A complete carpentry-camp-in-a-book, Wood Shop is the perfect gift for young makers and aspiring woodworkers. 17 cool projects teach kids the basics of woodworking as they build cool, useful creations.

 

 

 

Sewing School Box Set: 

A fun beginner’s guide to sewing, this box set comes complete with two bestselling sewing books—Sewing School and Sewing School 2—for a total of 41 kid-approved projects, plus bonus iron-on labels for crafty personalization.

Both of these titles encourage kids to craft in fun, interactive ways. The Sewing School Box Set is a perfect gift package, and it teaches kids everything they need to know to create their own toys and wearables. Wood Shop encourages kids to create something that might have otherwise been outside their comfort zone. Woodcraft safety, and 17 amazing projects they can build on their own make this a gift that keeps giving even after the holiday season is over!

Mason Jar Science:

The budding Einstein on your list will love turning ordinary household items into fascinating science experiments: Squishy Slime and Mini Tornadoes are just two of the 40 dynamic experiments to conduct in a simple mason jar.

 

 

 

 

Cooking & Baking Class Box Set: 

Get little ones into the kitchen with Baking Class and Cooking Class. A crash course on all things kitchen, the set includes more than 100 fun, easy-to-follow recipes, plus a bonus cutting board!

 

 

 

 

Howl like a Wolf: Give the gift of imagination with this interactive nature book. Kids climb inside the minds of animals through this beautifully illustrated interactive guide to nature education and creative play.

 

 

 

 

Backpack Explorer: On the Nature Trail:

For the little explorer on your list, this take-along field guide comes with interactive games, activities, stickers and maps—helping kids get hands-on in the great outdoors!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Girls Home Spa Lab

The perfect gift for any tween girl passionate about self-care, this collection brims with 50 recipes for natural body care products, 25 craft projects for relaxation, yoga routines, and so much more!

 

 

 

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Book Review: Once in a Blue Moon

Kids all seem to go through a phase of loving trivia, and if you’ve got kids who want to know about the tallest, biggest and weirdest things in nature, they’ll enjoy the book Once in a Blue Moon by Emily Hawkins. 

The book explores wonders of astronomy, meteorology, big trees, weird animals, volcanoes and more to show off the rarest events and phenomena in the natural world. 

Kids ages 7-10 will learn about the lake (Lake Hillier, on an island off Australia) that has water that’s bubblegum pink, the world’s deepst came (Veryovkina Cave in the country of Georgia) and the world’s biggest tree, a banyan in southeast India with a canopy that covers more than five acres!

Readers will learn what a blue moon is, how supernovas happen and about Haley’s comet and solar eclipses, among other space-related phenomena. Closer to home they’ll learn about stinky flowers, bleeding trees, glowing fungi and pizzly bears. 

There’s content about times when it’s rained frogs (and when frogs have exploded en masse), when snow made giant snowballs all by itself and how clouds stack on themselves like pancakes. The book also explores ball lightning, sun dogs, St. Elmo’s fire and more. 

I love books like this and I know kids do, too. There’s so much weird and wonderful about our world and even as adults we don’t know about all of these things. I found it fun to learn, for example, that there’s a volcano on the island of Java that not only sends out blue flames from vents near its crater, it’s also home to an acidic lake. 

Illustrations by Vlad Stankovic illuminate these weird natural wonders and are sure to get kids interested in learning more about some of these remarkable animals, plants, rock formations and more. 

About the book: 80 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $30.

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