Personalised Books as Gifts

This week I am happy to welcome Chris from JellyBean Books as our guest blogger.  

My daughter Julia is nearly four. She loves books, but especially personalised books. She loves being the main character in a story with fairy tale characters that she knows, as well as new characters that instantly form a place in a young imagination.

Julia has quite a few personalised books which we read together. These are her special books. She received “Santa” for her first Christmas, “Teddy Bear Land” for her first Easter, and “God Loves Me” for her baptism. She also received “Little Mermaid” from her first birthday, “Beauty and the Beast” for her second birthday, and “Batman” for her third birthday. Each book commemorates a milestone in her life (and perhaps says something about her developing personality!)

Now that she can read her own name and is starting to read other words, it has become a great game to read a personalised book together.

To further personalise Julia’s books I have pasted a photograph of her taken at each of the milestones in the front of each book. Hopefully these books will be treasured for years to come.

Julia tells me that she wants “When I Grow Up” for her next book. As she has already decided that she wants to be a builder, a poet, a magician and a princess when she grows up, I think that this book will be perfect for her fourth birthday!