The Princeton Public Library has selected and recommends these wonderful books for your holiday gift giving.

1. Staff Picks Holiday gift suggestions from the Princeton Public Library Staff

2. Picture Books A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee Chicken Little by Ed and Rebecca Emberley

3. Dog and Bear series by Laura Vaccaro Seeger Everywhere Babies by Susan Perkins

4. Fancy Nancy series by Jane O’Connell Fox Walked Alone by Barbara Reid

5. The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson Great Joy by Kate DiCamillo

6. Jungle Grapevine by Alex Beard The Winter Visitors by Karel Hayes Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

7. Easy Reader’s Chapter Books Ballet Sisters series by Jan Ormerod Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa series by Erica Silverman

8. Fancy Nancy Chapter Books by Jane O’Connell Elephant and Piggie series by Mo Willems

9. Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Al Perkins Fly Guy series by Tedd Arnold

10. Pop-Up Books ABC-3D by Marion Bataille Big Frog Can’t Fit In: A Pop Out Book by Mo Willems

11. Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs: The Definitive Pop-Up by Robert Sabuda How to Find Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker

12. Children’s Fiction Books The 39 Clues by a variety of authors A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban

13. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S.Lewis

14. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly Everything for a Dog by Ann M. Martin

15. The Mysterious Benedict Society series by Trenton Lee Stewart

16. The Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan

17. Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander

18. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

19. Children’s Non-Fiction Charles and Emma: The Darwin’s Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James Swanson

20. One Million Things: A Visual Dictionary DK Publishing Science on the Loose-Amazing Activities and Science Facts You’ll Believe by Helaine Becker

21. The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West by Sid Fleischman Future Tech : from personal robots to motorized monocycles by Charles Piddock Why Pi? How Math Applies to Everyday Life by Johnny Ball

22. The NEW Way Things Work by David Macaulay The Way We Work by David Macaulay

23. Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary by David West, James Luceno Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide by Daniel Wallace and Ryder Windham

24. Young Adult Fiction The Hunger Games and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

25. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks by E. Lockhart Impossible by Nancy Werlin

26. The Possibilities of Sainthood by Donna Freitas Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

27. Airborne, Skybreaker and Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel

28. Young Adult Non-Fiction Show Me How-500 Things You Should Know by Derek Fagerstrom Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte

29. Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-shirt by Megan Nicolay Do Not Open by John Farndon

30. Fiction Little Bee By Chris Cleave The Help by Kathryn Stockett

31. Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon

32. The Kurt Wallander Stories by Henning Mankell The Lineup: the World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

33. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

34. Books For Foodies Food Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 Extraordinary Places to Eat Around the Globe National Geographic

35. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl by Ree Drummond

36. Mike Colameco's Food Lover's Guide to New York City by Mike Colameco

37. Non-Fiction Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

38. The World According to Twitter by David Pogue When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

39. Coffee Table Books The Power of Art by Simon Schama Who Shot Rock & Roll : a photographic history, 1955 to the present by Gail Buckland

40. The Oxford Companion to Wine edited by Jancis Robinson ; assistant editor, Julia Harding The World's Greatest Wine Estates : a modern perspective by Robert M. Parker, Jr

41. Architecture Now! : Houses by Philip Jodidio Architecture Now! : Restaurants & bars by Philip Jodidio

42. Heavenly Vaults : from Romanesque to Gothic in European architecture by David Stephenson Railroads Across North America : an illustrated history by Claude Wiatrowski

43. Thank you and Happy Holidays from the Princeton Public Library Staff