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The Holiday season is quickly approaching and you know what that means.

Lists, get-togethers, and tubes of wrapping paper cluttering up the hall closet until it’s time for that “all in” wrapping session. Fun times!

This Christmas season will be a different one for me…the first in a long time that I have a new generation of kids to buy for, old enough to read Auntie’s gifts all on their own.

I remember running home from school each day, at 7 or 8 years old, to find out what new, crazy mess Pippi, Ramona, and Anne of Green Gables were going to get into next. While we all treasure our childhood moments cuddled up with our favorite stories and transported to new worlds, how great is it to have an opportunity to share new ones that are fun AND feature diverse lead characters?

heck out 10 books that should make it into those stockings this year:

1. Princess Truly in: I Am Truly by Kelly Greenawalt

“If you believe it, you can achieve it! Princess Truly is smart, courageous, and can do anything she sets her mind to do. She can tame lions, race fast cars, fly to the moon, and dance on the stars. Lively rhyme and colorful illustrations are beautifully combined to show little ones that they can do anything.”

2. The Best Things in Life are Dreamed by Priscilla J. Edwards

This book “aims to encourage fathers to read with young boys, inspire them to dream, and set goals to accomplish those dreams. The rhythmic verses make reading fun. The realistic watercolor illustrations by Ayushi Bandil warm the heart of young readers and enhance the experience of reading with dad.”

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source: niamagazine.com

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