A gift that doesn't vanish into the toy box
Toys are old news after a few weeks, but a book in which your grandchild sees themselves, and you alongside, gets taken off the bedside table again every evening. Your sleepover weekend, the biscuits at grandma's, grandpa's vegetable garden: the story is about you together, with drawings in which all three of you are recognisable.
And do you live a bit further away? Then grandma and grandpa still pop by every bedtime story. Page after page. A gift for a birthday, St Nicholas or Christmas, or just because a sleepover at grandma and grandpa's is the best outing of the week.
