After loads of consultations, got this set for my eldest cost centre's 18th birthday
http://dailysalty.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/so-what-do-you-give-boy-on-his-18th.html?m=1 > On 6 Dec 2016, at 3:03 pm, Rajeev Chakravarthi <chakra.raj...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I try not to gift books to people unless I know what they like to read. > > However, for kids' birthdays, I go with one of the following - > 1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory > 2. The Magic Faraway Tree > 3. The Wind in the Willows > 4. Anything from the Paddington Bear series > 5. Anything from the Geronimo Stilton series (seems wildly popular with > children) > > I have noticed that parents are also grateful for Amar Chitra Katha titles as > presents - more so than the kids themselves. > > > > Regards > > Rajeev > >> On Dec 6, 2016, at 19:37, Namitha Jagadeesh <namith...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> My "here, you MUST read this!" books: >> >> Phantoms in the brain - VS Ramachandran >> Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me - Ellen Forney >> Ocean at the end of the lane - Neil Gaiman >> The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - Sydney Padua >> >> >> >>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> How about your list, Udhay? >>>> >>> >>> I was looking for the "here, you MUST read this!" kind of book. >>> >>> An incomplete list from my perspective: >>> >>> Godel, Escher, Bach (multiple times) >>> Infinity and the Mind >>> Jonathan Livingstone Seagull (including to my then-fiancee-now-wife) >>> Kamala Subramanian's Mahabharatha >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) >>> >
