Well, it's coming up to the holidays and I've started to make my list and fill it in. As a starting point, I went through all the books and DVDs and gadgets I'd reviewed on Boing Boing since last November and looked at what had been the best-sellers among BB's readership, figuring you folks have pretty good taste! As I was taking a walk down old review lane, I realized that many of you would probably be interested in seeing these lists too, so I've turned them into a series of blog-posts that I'll be sticking up, one per day, for the next week or so. Today I'm starting with kids' media and media about kids and child-rearing. Later this week, I'll do fiction, nonfiction, comics and graphic novels, CDs and DVDs and gadgets and everything else, one a day. Hope this helps you with your holiday shopping as much as it's helped me with mine!

Baby's First Mythos

(C.J. Henderson)

Cthluhoid picture book

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Invention of Hugo Cabret

(Brian Selznik)

Award-winning steampunk graphic novel for kids

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Good as Lily

(Derek Kirk Kim)

Ass-kicking girl-positive graphic novel for young readers

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The Plain Janes

(Cecil Castellucci, Jim Rugg)

Funny, spirited little story about a gang of girls named Jane at a strait-laced high-school, rejected by the mainstream, and their art adventures.

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Little Brother

(Cory Doctorow)

My bestselling young adult novel about kids who hack for freedom

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The Starry Rift

(Jonathan Strahan)

Science fiction anthology for teens

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St. Trinian's: The Entire Appalling Business

(Ronald Searle)

Ronald Searle's original dark, weird and hilarious St Trinian's comics

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The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need

(Daniel H. Pink)

Optimistic and iconoclastic career guide in manga form

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Alice in Wonderland Tattoos

Alice in Wonderland temporary tatts

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Freakazoid – The Complete First Season

The best TV cartoon since the Max Fleischer era, on DVD

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Boy Proof

(Cecil Castellucci)

A compassionate young adult novel about a weird, smart, angry girl

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Cycler

(Lauren McLaughlin)

Smart YA novel about sex and sexuality

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My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us

(Jessica Mills)

Kick-ass punk-parenting book

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How to Ditch Your Fairy

(Justine Larbalestier)

Hilarious kids book about the problems with fairies

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Nation

(Terry Pratchett)

Moving and sweet young adult novel about science, superstition and decency

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ABC3D

(Marion Bataille)

The best pop-up book in the world

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The Baby Sleep Solution: A Proven Program to Teach Your Baby to Sleep Twelve Hours a Night

(Suzy Giordano)

The best parenting book I've read

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How Children Learn

(John Holt)

Cllassic of human, kid-centered learning

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The Graveyard Book

(Neil Gaiman)

Spooky, magical retelling of The Jungle Book in a graveyard

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How Children Fail

(John Holt)

Angry lessons from failures to teach

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: A Pop-Up Book

(Sam Ita)

The paper kraken wakes

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Alphabutt

(Kimya Dawson)

Weird, jangly, hilarious awesome music for kids

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Zoe's Tale

(John Scalzi)

Scalzi's smart-ass young-adult sf thriller

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Free to Be…You and Me (The 35th Anniversary Edition, Hardcover)

(Marlo Thomas and Friends)

The book every kid needs

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