Let’s Get Ready for 12 books geared for young kids that make great gifts for the holidays:

Miss Suzy

Miss Suzy is a little gray squirrel who lives happily in her oak-tree home until she is chased away by some mean red squirrels. Poor Miss Suzy is very sad. But soon she finds a beautiful dollhouse and meets a band of brave toy soldiers.

How Miss Suzy and the soldiers help each other makes a gentle, old-fashioned tale that has captured the imaginations of girls and boys alike for forty years. Arnold Lobel’s enchanting pictures are sure to make the kind squirrel and the gallant soldiers the everlasting friends of all who turn these pages.

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Mouse’s First Christmas

Late one winter night, Mouse discovers new sights, smells, and tastes: sweet and sparkly cookies, jingly and glinty bells, and lots of boxy and ribbony presents. Mouse doesn’t know what any of it means, until a whiskery and jolly guest arrives with a very special holiday message.

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The Night Before Christmas Anniversary Edition

With over 600,000 copies sold, Jan Brett’s New York Times bestselling edition of Clement Moore’s classic Christmas poem celebrates its tenth anniversary with a note from Jan and an exquisitely redesigned jacket with red foil trim, making this a delectable holiday treat.

A new generation of readers will find Jan’s visual interpretation of this favorite poem, set in a snowy New England village, both familiar, as St. Nick visits a Victorian family, and surprising, with Jan’s addition of two stowaway elves from the North Pole.

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Fancy Nancy

Meet Nancy, who believes that more is ALWAYS better when it comes to being fancy. From the top of her tiara down to her sparkly studded shoes, Nancy is determined to teach her family a thing or two about being fancy.

How Nancy transforms her parents and little sister for one enchanted evening makes for a story that is funny and warm — with or without the frills.

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Olivia

There’s a little bit of Olivia in everyone. She is simply OLIVIA! Ages 3-7. (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Fiona the Pig

Zany illustrations add extra humor to the generation gap between parents and children in this engaging story of a precocious pig who loves to be neat, and her parents, who can’t understand why she doesn’t want to live like a messy pig. Leigh Hobbs’ illustrations perfectly capture Fiona’s girlish neatness, while conveying a sense that even in her very un-pig-like pursuits, she’s really a bit of a mess.

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Baby Born

Through lovely verse and winsome watercolors, this sturdy lift-the-flap book celebrates all babies, following them from birth, through the seasons, to that joyful first birthday. Each experience contains a surprise under every flap.

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A Good Night Walk

As a child and parent walk down the block to the bay and turn to walk back home, evening falls upon the neighborhood. As the walk begins, the squirrels are in the yards, the boys are mowing lawns, a neighbor is baking a pie, and someone is mailing a letter. When the child and parent turn to walk back home, the apple pie is down from the windowsill, the leaves are raked up, and the postman has picked up.

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I wish I was the Baby

A new baby turns her big brother’s life upside down in this hilarious tale of role-reversal.

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Goodnight Gorilla

Good Night, Gorilla won the 1994 Cuffie for “Most Likely to Succeed in Years Ahead” and has more than lived up to that prediction, becoming a modern classic that is a must in every child’s library.

This perfect package will give kids the opportunity to cuddle up with an adorable plush gorilla while they are enjoying his secret bedtime antics.

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What Baby Wants

Everyone in the family wants to help the baby find sleep. They try everything from bringing flowers to a tree full of song birds. At last the youngest child finds the right answer. All baby wanted was a cuddle and a lullaby.

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Goodnight Moon

Perhaps the perfect children’s bedtime book, Goodnight Moon is a short poem of goodnight wishes from a young rabbit preparing for–or attempting to postpone–his own slumber. He says goodnight to every object in sight and within earshot, including the “quiet old lady whispering hush.” Clement Hurd’s illustrations are simple and effective, alternating between small ink drawings and wide, brightly colored views of the little rabbit’s room.

Finding all of the items mentioned throughout the book within the pictures is a good bedtime activity–a reappearing little mouse is particularly pesky. By the end of the little rabbit’s goodnight poem, the story has quieted to a whisper, and the drawings have darkened with nightfall. As you turn the last page, you can expect a sleepy smile and at least a yawn or two.

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