Great Gifts for Grads!

If you are looking for a great picture book gift for graduates we have some excellent choices below!



Instructions
by Neil Gaiman, Illustrated by Charles Vess
Harper Collins
$14.99

A "New York Times"-bestselling author, Newbery Medalist, and an award-winning illustrator of lushly imagined fairy-tale landscapes offer instructions for traveling through lands unknown and yet strangely familiar. An ideal gift for graduates of any age. Full color. -From the Publisher's website.

Leaf
By Stephen Michael King
Macmillan
$14.95

As a little boy runs in a panic from a haircut, a bird drops a single seed right on top of the boy's head. Time passes and a leaf soon grows. Instead of trying to rid himself of his new living hairstyle, the boy learns how to make the leaf grow and winds up growing himself. Full color. -From the Publisher's website.



Dream
By Susam V. Bosak
TCP press
$17.95

Bosak's (Something to Remember Me By) inspirational gift book urges children to go ahead and dream, and tells them how. The narrator says that dreams are living things-"Dreams grow like seeds./ They need to take root, / then stretch toward the sun./ They grow slowly./ They must be tended to"-and details the strength that each stage of human life brings to bear on the process. "To grow a dream/ .../ You need/ the Believe of childhood, / the Do of youth, / and the Think of experience."-From Publisher's Weekly

And of course there is the classic Dr. Seuss book Oh the Places You'll Go!

Oh the Places You'll Go!
By Dr. Seuss
Random House
$17.99

And as Marika, the new Children's department manager pointed out to me we also have several editions of this book, including a pop up edition, and a graduation set!

Best luck to all Grads!

Paz,

~Nieves