Episode #180: Holiday Gift Guide!
Grace’s first picture book in four years is coming out in February!
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WELCOME BACK! Grace and Alvina give their favorite gift recommendations for bookish people.
How have you been?
Alvina has been working on the INBOX ZERO goal. Right now, she has under 1,000 emails. Stephen and Alvina went to Times Square over the weekend. Grace has been working hard on meeting her deadline for Chinese Menu.
Gift Guide/Bookish Recommendations:
Grace’s gift ideas for authors and illustrators:
Grace loves the website outofprint.com. Here you can find these great book lovers socks as well as a Richard Scarry’s Lowly Worm T-shirt!
Alvina’s gift ideas for editor’s/book lovers:
Lumio Book Lamp from the MOMA shop
A nice pen from Montblanc! Fountain pens and Multi-colored pens, and gel pens. Plus, a find a beautiful journal.
Ideal Bookshelf for custom prints!
Wild card gift ideas! (not necessarily book related)
Grace: MasterClass subscription and Calamity Wear!
Alvina: Snack or fruit subscriptions such as Harry&David, Universal Yums, Umamicart.)
Book Recommendations!
Board Books:
Grace Lin’s board books: Up to My Knees, Circle, Sphere, What Will Fit?, The Last Marshmallow, Hark the Herald, Silent Night--- all available signed here: https://shop.carlemuseum.org/category/books/autographed-books/grace-lin
Aaron Becker board books: You Are Light, One Sky,
We Are Little Feminists; Celebrations, How we Eat by Shuli de la Fuente-Lau
Yes! No! A First Conversation About Consent by Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, and Isabel Roxas.
Picture Books:
How to Send a Hug by Hayley and John Rocco
Maya’s Song by Renee Watson and Bryan Collier
NEW TOPIC: Grace and Alvina’s….favorite things to eat during the holidays!
Thanksgiving: Alvina loves the stuffing and molasses iced cookie!
Alex’s mom is big into baking and she bakes these amazing “chocolate surprises” for Christmas! Grace is a huge fan of Christmas cookies and Alex’s attempt to make Gingerbread cookies! She also loves the Yule Log, a chocolate cake in the shape of a log.
Gratefuls:
Alvina is feeling grateful that she was able to have a really lazy Sunday. It was lovely. She recently watched the Spielberg documentary.
Grace has been reading Hazel little stories from Chinese Menu and she realized that her daughter had not really had real American Chinese restaurant. Hazel had her first General Tso’s chicken!
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