Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I am blessed to have some dear friends to hang out with today, and am blessed to have a full-time job that requires me to work tomorrow. Seriously, though. This is the first year in the last five that I have a ready-made excuse NOT to go Black Friday shopping! SERIOUSLY, THOUGH I live with this boy who discovered Black Friday shopping awhile back with one of his fellow stingy friends, and even though he had food poisoning or the stomach flue and became violently ill while WAITING IN LINE AT A CIRCUIT CITY, he still counts it as one of the best days of his life. You should have SEEN the deal he got on that external hard drive, guys!
Aaaanyway. This year, I’ve just got to work in the morning, so sorry, honey, you can get up at 4 a.m. and put on your winter coat and hats and mittens by yourself.
But for those of you getting your holiday shopping started early, and not everyone on your list would like a 1,567 GB external harddrive, here are some books I would suggest. Do bookstores do Black Friday? If the answer is yes, I might change my curmudgeonly tune…
For babies and toddlers…
Everywhere Babies by Susan Myers and Marla Frazee
Llama Llama Time to Share by Anna Dewdney
Pantone: Colors by Helen Dardnik
This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen
For assorted other children…
Penny and her Doll by Kevin Henkes
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Hope Larson
Chomp by Carl Hiaasen
For your weird teenage cousins…
Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Baby’s in Black: Astrid Kirchnerr, Stuart Sutcliffe, and The Beatles by Arne Bellstorff
Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
Rookie Yearbook One ed. by Tavi Gevinson
For brothers, sisters, parents, grandparents, and other “adults”…
The Signal and the Noise: Why Some Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t by Nate Silver
The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman
The Story of America: Essays on Origins by Jill Lepore
Live By Night by Dennis Lehane