Christmas Book List For All Ages

 

I’ve always thought it was important to have books in the house.  New books, ones borrowed from the library, ones from garage sales, best sellers, gifts, even ones we order that are yet to be released.  I think reading, especially with children, is important for their vocabulary and learning level.  Books should be treasured for the education and adventure they bring but also be plentiful.  When my kids were young we would do two books (per kid) at bed time.  One they’d read to me and one I’d read to them.  We listened to audio books in the car.  Always, always, always, they get books at Christmas.  Same with my nieces and nephews and friend’s kids.

New Book Releases

Here are some new books, fresh off the press, for ideas for your family and friends.  Fantastic titles varying in topic.  Books about Legos, food fights, cookbooks, gardening, adventures and more.  I’m sure thousands of new books are written each month and these are just a tiny drop in the bucket.  But they are books I have chosen so I thought I would share them.

 

First, LEGO books. My son loves Legos. Mostly playing with them.  His favorite is Star Wars Legos but he loves these Christmas books with fun Lego ideas of building your own.

The LEGO Christmas Ornaments Book; 16 Designs to Spread Holiday Cheer.  By Chris McVeigh.  Volume 2.

Step by step instructions for building all sorts of Christmas Legos and ornaments.  They are all so cute and unique.

The LEGO Neighborhood Book: Build Your Own City! by Brian Lyles and Jason Lyles. Volume 2.

Great idea for residential and commercial neighborhoods, public places, galleries, micro city ideas and corner condominiums.
The LEGO Architecture Idea Book.  1001 Ideas For Brickwork, siding, windows, columns, roofing and much, much more!  By Alice Finch.The LEGO Boost Idea Book.  95 Simple Robots and Hints for Making More!  By Yoshihito Isogawa.

Moving gears, swinging parts, flapping wings, turntables and more.  Lots of moving parts for making things that ‘go.’
The LEGO Zoo.  50 Easy-to-Build Animals.  By Jody Padulano.

Insects, rodents, birds, cats, kangaroos, monkeys and more. Easy and detailed picture instructions on hot to build all of them.

The LEGO Micro Cities.  Build Your Own Mini Metropolis!  By Jeff Friesen.

Learn how to build bridges, futuristic buildings, hydroloop city, music factory and more.

Fun Reading Books

 

Our Summer Waves.  By S. Michelle Johnson.  Illustrated by Maima Adiputri.

This is a fun book with some life lessons about not giving up.  Written by a friend, Michelle, with the story about her own kids.  So proud of her writing her first book and hope she continues and writes many, many more.  Fun book at any time of year, teaching kids to try one more time.

Dinosaur Devotions.  75 Dino Discoveries, bible truths, fun facts and more.  By Michelle Medlock Adams.  Illustrated buy Denise Turu.  This is a fun book about dinosaurs and is very educational too.  I would never have thought about the biblical facts about dinosaurs.  Lots of details on 75 different types.

Spartan & The Green Egg.  The Poachers of Tiger Mountain.  By Nabila Khashoggi.  Illustrated by Manuel Cadag.  A fun comic-style adventure with Spartan.

Food Fight!  A Mouthwatering history of who ate what and why through the ages.  By Tanya Steel.  National Geographic Kids book.

Food from prehistoric era, Egypt, Greece, up to the 60’s and 30 recipes too.  Common foods eaten at that time, some history, table manners, typical dishes, etc.

Lady Lucy’s Laugh Giraffe Journey.  By Karen Gross.  Illustrated by Marc Wine.

This is a tiny book but packed full of giraffe facts.  Part of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, an organization that concentrates solely on conservation and management of giraffes in the wild throughout Africa.

Harry & Meghan. The Wedding. Paper Dolls.  By Eileen Rudisill Miller.

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The Bluest of Blues.  Anna Atkins and the First book of Photographs.  By Fiona Robinson.  This book isn’t as engaging as I thought it would be.  It looks like a big children’s picture book but the dialog would be for older kids or they’d lose interest.  It is still neat to learn about the first book of photographs and about Anna Atkin’s life.

Cookbooks:

A Cookie to Celebrate.  Recipes and decorating tips for everyday baking  and holidays.  By Jana Douglas.

Snowflake cookies, how to make homemade sprinkles, how to make icing colors and more.

The Dirty Vegan Cookbook.  Your favorite recipes made vegan.  By Catherine Gill.

Some favorites, like butternut squash soup and green bean casserole and some new ones like bacon jalapeno poppers (with fake bacon) and coffee cake.  Lots of recipes, with photos, all vegan-style. Over 100 recipes all together.

This Old Gal’s Pressure Cooker Cookbook.  By Jill Selkowitz.  120 easy and delicious recipes for your instant pot and pressure cooker.

I’m happy to get this, since I just got a pressure cooker and have only used it once.  It is definitely a different style of cooking, since everything is done so much faster. Meats, soups, pasta, grains, even French toast.  So much that can be made and lots of amazing recipes.

The Big Book of Paleo Pressure Cooking.  150 fast-to-fix, super-delicious recipes for all brands of Electric pressure Cookers, indulging the Instant Pot.  By Natalie Perry.

Easy to Bake Unicorn Cookbook.  Exciting cookbook with full color photos.  Cinderella ideas for classic and new recipes kids can make.

Animal Husbandry Books

Beehive Alchemy.  Projects and recipes using honey, beeswax, propolis, and pollen to make soap, candles, creams, salves and more.  By Petra Ahnert.

Amazing recipes.  Birthday candles, facial cleanser, wood cleaner, ketchup and more.  I have no aspirations to raise bees but I love learning more about them.  I think we should care about their numbers in the wild and I have many bee and butterfly friendly plants in my yard.  So, reading about this just furthers my love for bees with all these recipes we get from them.

101 Chicken Keeping Hacks.  Tips, tricks and ideas for you and your hens.  From Lisa Steele.

My son’s school has chickens and my dad liked them so much that he has his own too.  They are friendly chickens that like to be held, fed and let.  This book is great ideas to keep chickens entertained, boredom busters, homemade scratch, hanging baskets, swings and more.  Lots of great ideas for new chicken owners and people that have owned chickens for ages.

Cluck.  A Book of Happiness for Chicken Lovers.

Great book about chickens (besides eggs).  Their personalities, highlights of the roles chickens play in cultures, quotes by famous people, about chickens, and more.

 

At Home Help, Little DYI

The Real Simple Method to Organizing Every Room: And How To Keep It That Way.  By Oxmoor House.

I think of myself as a minimalist and pretty clean in my home.  But when it comes to work, filing, paperwork, keeping track of things… I am soooo not organized.  I love all the office ideas and the ideas for car decluttering as well.

All New Square Foot Gardening.  by Mel Bartholomew.  I love gardening books and learning about gardening in small spaces is great for small yards, apartments and school gardens.