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3. For The Zen Minded

Another book that's ideal for getting New Year's goals off the ground, Be Great, Be Grateful: A Gratitude Journal for Positive Living makes it easy to express gratitude each day. The book features space to record your reasons to be grateful and your hopes for the day each day. It also helps you along with creative exercises, playful prompts and uplifting quotes. Says the intro, "this journal will help you to become more aware of, and better understand, your thought patterns, inspiring simple ways to create new behaviors that shape your contentment and appreciation every day."

4. For The Baker

5. For The Anne Fan

Everyone's favourite redhead, Anne Shirley, is as popular as ever. A new generation has been introduced to the preteen heroine thanks in part to the series Anne With An E. Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel tells L.M. Montgomery's classic story in a whimsical new way, with cute and colourful illustrations and a fun, abbreviated storyline that covers the schoolyard rivalries, baking disasters and puffed sleeves. A great intro to Anne for younger kids, who can later move on to the classic Anne of Green Gables of 1908.

6. For The Budding Artist

All I can say is cuute! How to Draw a Unicorn and Other Cute Animals with Simple Shapes in 5 Steps shows you how to draw adorable animals - sloths, owls, bears, monkeys and more - using only five easy steps for each. There are spaces to draw right in the book. You can move on to creating your own creatures and colour schemes. This drawing book would make a great gift for a young artist, but, to tell you the truth, I would like to use this book myself. I really think it's fun at any age.

7. For The Master Chef Junior

This is another super cute book choice for the youngster on your gift list. The Help Yourself Cookbook for Kids: 60 Easy Plant-Based Recipes Kids Can Make to Stay Healthy and Save the Earth features a jazzy combo of illustrations and photographs to add kid-friendly appeal to simple, enticing recipes. Kids will want to try Dewdrop Chia Lemonade, 5-Minute Tomato Sauce, The Leprechaun Footprint Avo Toast and Edible Fireworks (popcorn three ways). Author and illustrator Ruby Roth also offers up kitchen safety tips and special ingredients.
Family Celebrations: Poems, Toasts, and Traditions for Every Occasion will help you find just the right words to express your feelings during those special moments. There are all-occasion toasts, prayers and blessings, birthday wishes, wedding thoughts, graduation reflections and much more. Says the letter to readers, "The selections cultivate gratefulness for family life and bring a freshness and appreciation for one's own faith, while nurturing and enriching the family bond. The carefully chosen words speak to the heart and to the soul." I think Family Celebrations would make a thoughtful stocking stuffer.

9. For The Gamer

10. For The Writer

This booked grabbed me right from the cover, with the stunning black and white portrait of Virginia Woolf. Writers: Their Lives and Works is a heavy tome that looks at writers from Dante Alighieri (born 1265) on up to Margaret Atwood and Alice Walker. There are more than 100 brief biographies of writers based throughout the world, including Toni Morrison (American) and Gabriel García Márquez (Colombian). Most entries feature a strong portrait of the featured novelist, playwright or poet. The text traces "the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each individual and influenced their work, revealing insights into the larger-than-life characters, plots, and evocative settings that they created." A beautiful book to pick up whenever you have spare moments, because you can read it in snippets.

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