Everyone on your holiday gift list deserves the

perfect book. Here are some of our 2011 favourites:

Picture Books

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

- Brigette Barrager

Prudence Wants a Pet - Cathleen Daly

Perfect Square - Michael Hall

Red Sled - Lita Judge

Me… Jane - Patrick McDonnell

Press Here - Herve Tullet

Amanda and her Alligator

- Mo Willems

Chapter Books

Small Persons with Wings

- Ellen Booraem

Wildwood - Colin Meloy

The Fourth Stall - Chris Rylander

Wonderstruck - Brian Selznick

The Girl Who Circumnavigated

Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own

Making - Catherynne M. Valente

Children’s Nonfiction

A Butterfly is Patient - Dianna Aston

The LEGO Ideas Book

- Daniel Lipkowitz

To Market, To Market - Nikki McClure

Treasury of Greek Mythology

- Donna Jo Napoli

Harry Potter Film Wizardry

- Brian Sibley

Teen Books

Chime - Franny Billingsley

The Last Little Blue Envelope

- Maureen Johnson

The Piper’s Son - Melina Marchetta

A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness

Lola and the Boy Next Door

- Stephanie Perkins

Divergent - Veronica Roth

The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater

Graphic Novels

Hark! A Vagrant! - Kate Beaton

Anya’s Ghost - Vera Brosgol

A Bride’s Story - Kaoru Mori

Sailor Moon - Naoko Takeuchi

Habibi - Craig Thompson

Bunny Drop - Yumi Unita

Twin Spica - Kou Yaginuma

Adult Fiction

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

- Alan Bradley

Ghost Story - Jim Butcher

Heartless - Gail Carriger

Half Blood Blues - Esi Edugyan

The Little Shadows - Marina Endicott

When She Woke - Hillary Jordan

Tiger Hills - Sarita Mandanna

The Five - Robert McCammon

The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

The Tiger’s Wife - Tea Obreht

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar

Children - Ransom Riggs

Nonfiction

Life Itself - Roger Ebert

Bossypants - Tina Fey

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

- Mindy Kaling

How to Land an A330 Airbus

- James May

All Wound Up

- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Cookbooks

The Cookiepedia - Stacy Adimando

Dinner Chez Moi - Laura Calder

The Sriracha Cookbook

- Randy Clemens

Super Natural Every Day

- Heidi Swanson

Spilling the Beans

- Julie Van Rosendaal

Serve Yourself - Joe Yonan

Books Make

the Best Gifts!

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