Prepare sleighs in the summer, and gifts in advance. This is the way to paraphrase folk wisdom, when only a month and a half remains until the New Year holidays. Now is the time to start preparing, for example, to think about gifts.
And as you know, the best gift is a book. Clever, bright, beautiful books will delight both children and adults. We have compiled for you a selection of books as a gift for children. They are unusual and very entertaining.
Iceberg on the carpet
It seems that there is no such mother in the world who would not want to give her child an unforgettable childhood. But how can this be done? Very simple. With a child you need to play - and the more often, the better. Famous blogger and loving mother Asya Vanyakina understands this and therefore invented a wonderful book. There are more than 100 master classes of games and classes for children from 1, 5 to 5 years. Open the book and play with the child every day. With paints and letters, ice and "home" snow, according to favorite books, cartoons and around events from the "adult world." It's incredibly cool. The book came out not so long ago, but it has already become a bestseller, which means that hundreds of mothers and their children have already played wonderful games.
How everything works
Children love to disassemble things and see what's hidden inside. The result of such research - dismantled machines, dolls and broken things. If you distract a small researcher, it's time to give him the book of David Macaulay. She will tell you how almost all things work in the world. And the main thing: do not have to disassemble anything. In the encyclopedia, there are beautiful and understandable drawings and texts written specifically for small people. Do you want to know how the thermos, the zipper, the door lock, the computer and many other things that surround us are arranged? It's time to read the encyclopedia. Moreover, it has already been read by more than a million children around the world.
Paintings. My Big Exhibition
Many of us want to understand art, but, unfortunately, not everyone in the childhood has got acquainted with painting, and now everyone somehow hands do not reach. Now our children have a good opportunity to learn art in the game. This book-game will help. In the set, a book with descriptions of the directions of painting, stories about famous artists and their paintings, as well as cards for the game and the rules of different games. To become a connoisseur of art as a child, you do not need to cram anything, you can just play in art. A great gift for both the child and the whole family.
How it is built
Boys love to build from everything that comes to hand. And, of course, they want to know how to become a builder. Give them this book, and they will be completely delighted. After all, it tells about the most famous buildings in the world: bridges, skyscrapers, dams, domes. The author describes the processes of creating and designing the most famous buildings. And it makes it simple and understandable. The book will reveal all the engineering and construction tricks, help to understand the intricacies of construction and teach the child to think analytically.
Art-Encyclopedias by Dianna Aston
The book as a gift to a child must necessarily be beautiful, only then it will be remembered. Art-encyclopedias of Dianna Aston are just like that. They are so beautiful and poetic that you can not take your eyes off. The lyrical language of the author combined with the elegant style of the illustrator helped to create real masterpieces - "The Egg Loves Silence", "What Dreams a Seed?" And "The Stone Has Its Own Story." It's a book-journey into an amazing microcosm. Each is devoted to a separate topic: stones, seeds and eggs. Difficult topics, but here they are fascinated, and how! Answers to questions, beautiful fonts, quality of paper, amazing discoveries and, of course, very beautiful illustrations - that's why books are liked by both kids and adults.
Journey
There are books that do not need words. This is exactly this. It was painted by artist Aaron Becker, the owner of the Caldecott Honor Award, which receives the best books for children. This is a picture book that can awaken the child's imagination. The story of dreams, friendship, the search for the meaning of life. In one gray, dreary day, a girl draws a little door on the wall of the children's room and through this door gets into the fairy-tale world. On the way it is waiting for a lot of testing, but she copes with them due to her courage, resourcefulness and, of course, imagination. A great gift for little dreamers.
Snow
A book that will help a child love the winter, and fill this time with special magic. It would seem that it is about the most common phenomenon - about snow. But after reading it, the child will perceive the snow as a real miracle of nature. Mark Cassino collected in the book incredibly beautiful photos of snowflakes, shot under a microscope and enlarged hundreds of times. Snowflakes-stars, snowflakes-plates, snowflakes-columns. They are beautiful! The baby learns how, where and when snowflakes are formed, why they always have 6 rays, why the shape of the crystals depends and why there are no two identical snowflakes in the world. This book will become a very timely gift for the New Year.
The Big Book of Trains
Many children in their childhood dream of a toy railway. This book will be an excellent gift for small train lovers. It tells the story of the railway in pictures. Thanks to her, the child, as if from the train window, would see the whole history of the trains that came to life in the illustrations. All the texts in the book are short, simple and entertaining. One turn is one stage in the development of railways and a separate story. Excellent educational gift for boys and girls.
Professor AstroCot and his journey into space
Children love space, because it has many mysteries. This book will help to make an amazing journey to the stars, along with Astrocot and space mouse. It simply and fascinatingly tells about the universe, planets, black holes, weightlessness, astronauts and even extraterrestrial life. Beautiful and vivid illustrations, schemes, mock-ups and curious facts about the cosmos will help to expand the horizon of the child and awaken his curiosity.
Technical tales of Martin Sodomka
Martin Sodomka is very fond of cars and different mechanisms. He himself assembled a retro car, and then wrote unusual tales, which he called technical. They are fun and simple to explain what the car and the airplane consists of and how to assemble them. The books tell how three friends decided to assemble a car and an airplane. With the help of beautiful illustrations, diagrams and detailed images of parts of transport, the author narrates about the arrangement of an airplane and a car. From such books all boys and even dads will be delighted.
Calendars as a gift for the New Year
A great gift for the New Year is a calendar, because he will be with the child for a year. It is not only practical, but also very interesting and entertaining. Especially if the calendars are unusual, like these.
Calendar of interesting events
Every day is an event or a holiday in the world. And you can tell all about the children. This calendar will help. It contains the most unusual and interesting dates. When they found the tomb of Tutankhamun and came up with shoe laces? When did the first Ferris wheel open and the man first hit the space? All these events are in the calendar, and they are hidden in the pictures of the month. Discuss them, play "based on" interesting dates - and your year will be full of unforgettable events.
Color Calendar
This unusual color calendar will help to develop the creative abilities of the child. In it every month a certain color: January is gray, May is green, and September is pink. In addition, the whole year is presented as a series of adventures of the boy musician Philip. He travels the world, gets into the history and every month paints his house on wheels in different colors. The calendar will introduce the child to a variety of shades, teach them to notice them in everything that surrounds us, and suggest ideas for creative tasks and games for each month.
New Year's Calendar
Advent calendar is a good way to show the child the approach of the New Year's miracle. It has a page with pockets for cards with fun tasks. Only 40 cards with interesting ideas, what you can do on this day with the child, and also cards with gifts. Hang the calendar two weeks before the New Year, put the cards in each pocket and ask the child to pull out one at a time and carry out the tasks. At the end of the calendar for parents there is a list of small and inexpensive gifts.