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 relatives, especially 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 ...