Book: The Greatest Gift

The gift that means everything, unwrapped first.
On a deep navy night strewn with little stars, a girl in a cranberry dress perches atop the biggest wrapped box you ever saw, her white teddy tucked in close beside her. The wrapping blooms with poinsettias and holly and pinecones; a bright ribbon crowns it all. She isn't shaking the box or peeking at the bow. She's just sitting there in the hush before morning, swinging her shoes, waiting. This is the story of the gift that costs nothing and means everything, told in pages little hands can turn again and again.

Read it slow on a December evening, one small head leaning into your shoulder, and let the answer arrive the way the best ones do: quietly, and right on time. A board book made to be unwrapped first and treasured longest.