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Holiday book gift guide, two classic favorites from Running Press

Two fun book favorites for holiday gift giving that are timeless:

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: It’s Show Time!
 BE JOYFUL: Peanuts Wisdom to Carry You Through 

Books make great gifts, and every Christmas my children receive a pile of books from their grandmother! Before long, they were reading to themselves. Buy your children books, go to your local library, just get books in their hands and watch them grow and learn. 

Read to your children, read with them, and listen to them read to you.

You can never have too many books.


Jump on over to Running Press for easy purchasing of these and more great titles.


ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: It’s Show Time!




 Hardcover; $17.95 by Ross Bagdasarian and Janice Karman,

an interactive book that shows Alvin, Simon, and Theodore putting on a benefit concert to help animals at the local shelter get adopted. It includes eight interactive sound prompts and full-color illustrations throughout.

Gift giving ideas for Alvin and The Chipmunks: It's Show Time! 

  • Gift to your children
  • Gift to your young relatives
  • Gift to family holiday parities
  • Gift to secret Santa gift exchange
  • Gift for school exchange
  • Gift for early present for bedtime reading leading up to Christmas.






 BE JOYFUL: Peanuts Wisdom to Carry You Through 
Hardcover; $7.95 by Charles M. Schulz 
PEANUTS memories with beloved and inspirational quotes.







Gift ideas for Be Joyful: Peanuts Wisdom to Carry You Through:

  • The prefect gift for a teacher
  • Secret Santa
  • Co-worker
  • girl or boyfriend
  • Elderly persons
  • Persons in hospital
  • Grandparents
  • New parents
  • Fits just right into a stocking
  • Easy to tuck into a gift bag with a mug and selection of tea or cocoa
  • Buy one for yourself for inspiration or quiet time






Disclosure: I received samples of these books from Running Press. The comments and views are my own.

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