What’s under your tree?

Posted December 12, 2012 by Julie Steenson

With all this technology related gift-giving at holiday time, I did something really radical for my family this year…I bought them all books for Christmas. (And if you haven’t seen Katie’s blog last week with the YouTube video, “Books for Christmas,” it is a must-see!)
Yes, books….no computers, no fancy telephones, no tablets, no video games. I picked out some of my favorite picture books for the youngest crowd, graphic novels for the middle schoolers, and the latest YA fiction for the teens. I am not against technology and I love my Kindle Fire (and after successfully completing Database Management (LIS 458), I long to take a programming class). The reason for giving books is just that it is so much fun to get a book you didn’t pick out, to discover a new unexpected world. It stays with you forever. In the age of gift cards, the giving and receiving of books is a lost art.
The Bloomsbury Review posted the following picture on their Facebook page and I think it explains it best:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Bloomsbury-Review/138813680563

So, if you still have shopping to do, maybe sharing your latest good read is the perfect gift!