I'd really like to give this 9 year old girl a book as a gift. She loves reading and loves fantasy, but I also don't want it to be just a regular paperback. I'm kinda looking for one of those beautiful books you can keep for years and years as a memento. Any suggestions? If it has Chinese elements in it, all the better.
It's very much up to her intelligence, how much she reads, her identity works, the progress of her puberty, her interests.... But let's try with wide range: - Orson Scott Card: Enders Game - Potters. - James Herriot's books. - Carl Barks or Don Rosa Donald Duck -books. - Terry Pratchett's Tiffany books. - Charles Schulzes Charlie Brown collections. - Bill Waterson's Calvin and Hobbes collections - Tove Jansson: Moomin books - Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstockings and/or Emil of Lönnebarga -series - Mauri Kunnas books - Isaac Asimov Foundation series - Some good illustrated poems for kids If that list does not help, I hope it innovates. Good luck. Not easy task if you don't know her taste really well. And if she is 9, her taste might be different next year.
Anything by Roahld Dahl, I loved those books as a kid. The Firework Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman was one story that stuck out with me at that age. Has touches of fantasy and is set in China. If she can handle things a little darker, there's Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy, I find it laugh out loud funny. Set in Ireland though.
Ok, that one I didn't know about I'll be more specific. Matilda. Charlie and the chocolate factory James and the Giant Peach Danny Champion of the World The BFG Fantastic Mr Fox The Twits George's Marvelous Medicine
