Nothing quite beats a new book for Christmas. I love reading new books ready for a new year ahead always makes me happy. I have put together a book gift guide for all book lovers in partnership with Abraham & Chronicles :)
MALACHITE GREEN ONE LINE A DAY
This elegant new edition of the classic memory keeper features a beautiful stone-inspired case design perfect for crystallizing a five-year slice of life.
More than a daily diary: For those daunted by the idea of keeping a journal or diary, the simple commitment of just One Line a Day is manageable for everyone. This elegant version of the classic One Line a Day journal channels the natural beauty of a polished stone and glistens with foil-stamping and gilded page edges.
This keepsake memory book invites you to capture just a single quick line once a day over five years. As you write, the layout allows you to see your highlights and reflections on the same date in previous years. Uniquely rewarding, simple to complete, and presented in a gorgeous and modern package, this journal becomes a treasure trove of memories to cherish forever.
CALM LIVING
Designing Your Life meets The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up in this guide to creating a space that promotes calm, clarity, and positivity. In Designing for Calm, designer and Stanford instructor Olga Trusova offers easy-to-follow tips for cultivating a calming environment at home or at work. Discover how simple changes can make any room and its inhabitants feel more inspired, clear, and energetic.
Using the principles of design thinking, Trusova distils essential design wisdom, revealing how to use light, colour, sound, furniture, and more to make simple, intentional changes for a profound impact on your mind, body, and spirit. Illuminating examples, accessible tips, and short exercises reveal how easy it is to transform a space, whether you're targeting a small corner or multiple rooms. Brimming with smart, digestible design tips and life-changing techniques, this stylish handbook makes a lovely self-purchase or gift for creatives, design enthusiasts, at-home workers, and anyone looking for simple, proven ways to design a soothing space.
MUSEUM BUMS
Based on the eponymous viral Twitter account, Museum Bums, a celebration of classical art, history, and shapely derrieres, encourages readers to learn something new while still managing to have a chuckle. What do Hieronymus Bosch, the Roman cult of Antinous, and the peach emoji all have in common? But of course, butts, of course!
Divided into six categories of keisters, this humorous history book takes you on a whirlwind tour of the finest rear ends in museums around the world - from the lusciously rendered bottoms of Renaissance painting to the abstract curves of contemporary art. Heritage scholars and art educators Mark Small and Jack Shoulder pair illuminating social commentary, historical context, and lively captions with captivating depictions of tasteful - and sometimes cheeky - bums in art.
LET
Adapted from a poem called “Book of Genesis” by the award-winning poet Kei Miller and beautifully imagined and illustrated by Diana Ejaita, this provocative and hopeful picture book is an ode to the power of words and of books—of seeing oneself and being seen—and to a world of wonder and possibility.
THE ULTIMATE WORLD OF DINOSAURS
Discover the fantastic world of dinosaurs! The giants of the prehistoric era come alive in this highly interactive book, which includes flaps, pop-ups, wheels, and pull tabs to introduce the different types of dinosaurs and other creatures that lived millions of years ago.
This comprehensive overview provides readers with informative and engaging text about how and where they lived, what happened to them, and much more!
PARENTING ADVICE TO IGNORE IN ART AND LIFE
From the author of the hit Men to Avoid in Art and Life and follow-up Friends to Keep in Art and Life comes Parenting Advice to Ignore in Art and Life, a collection of all-too-familiar unsolicited advice parents receive on a daily.
LILA GREER
Lila Greer, Teacher of the Year is a moving story starring the Questioneers’ teacher that’s all about kindness, learning to face your fears and the profound difference that one brilliant educator can make in a child’s life, from author Andrea Beaty and illustrator David Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling creators of Aaron Slater, Illustrator and Ada Twist, Scientist!
IS THIS LOVE?
Is this love? Is this love that I'm feeling? Bob Marley's music has captured the hearts and souls of families around the world. This sweet adaptation of one of his best-loved songs is a heartwarming tale of an older child's love for a younger sibling. From the moment she sees her baby sister, her big sister knows just what she's going to do: love her and treat her right, every day and every night. Playing together, watching over her, standing by her through thick and thin . . . big sister does it all, because yes, this is love that she's feeling.
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