{"title":"Penguin Random House","description":"\u003cp\u003eBooks published by Penguin Random House: children's picture books, board books, learning and activity books, cookbooks and country-living titles, and gift and keepsake editions.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"peter-rabbit-the-christmas-star-board-book","title":"Peter Rabbit: The Christmas Star","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeatrix Potter's most famous troublemaker gets a Christmas of his own. Peter and his sisters are busy getting ready for the day, and the whole story is told across thick board pages built for hands that grab, chew, and turn three at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the gentlest possible way into a classic: the same characters and the same soft, century old artwork generations grew up on, toughened up for a toddler's very first Christmas. It fits a stocking, survives a car seat, and quietly becomes the book that means December in your house.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other Christmas board book we keep for this age is \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-night-before-christmas-board-book-jan-brett\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eThe Night Before Christmas\u003c\/a\u003e, Clement Moore's poem painted by Jan Brett, 30 board pages and graded 1 to 3 years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093654155494,"sku":"6665544","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/original_332fa7ab-2fa5-45f7-8c1f-b44b39f45e42.jpg?v=1785573381"},{"product_id":"wishy-washy-first-words-board-book","title":"Wishy Washy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA board book written by a licensed speech language pathologist who also happens to paint beautifully. Tabitha Paige chose every first word in here on purpose, favoring the early sounds toddlers actually make first, and then wrapped them in lifelike watercolor animals a child will want to touch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA chipmunk guide walks little ones through page by page while imitation prompts do the quiet work of building sounds into words. Parents get real guidance in the back, not filler. If someone in your life is waiting on first words, this is the gift that helps instead of just decorating the nursery shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093654253798,"sku":"E595694","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/1_a3abe585-0f8c-4b73-844f-4b4a6aae8068.jpg?v=1785573382"},{"product_id":"spots-pumpkin-surprise-board-book","title":"Spot's Pumpkin Surprise","description":"\u003cp\u003eEric Hill's Spot plants a pumpkin seed with Dad in the spring, then does the hardest thing a toddler ever has to do: wait. Water it, watch it, wait some more, and finally there is a pumpkin big enough for a surprise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe board itself is die cut into a pumpkin, so the book is half story and half object. Little hands hold it by the shape, trace the edge, and carry it around the house all October. It is a first lesson in patience and growing things, delivered by the friendliest dog in children's publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093654319334,"sku":"9780241552049","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/1_5be5c084-bc95-4a42-9e94-bfba7b4ec9ac.jpg?v=1785573384"},{"product_id":"tis-the-season-family-advent-activity-book","title":"'Tis the Season Family Advent Activity Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost Advent calendars are gone by December 26. This one is built to come back out every year. Four weeks, four themes, hope and faith and joy and peace, each opening with a short devotion and then handing the family something to actually do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cover carries a reusable lift the flap Advent calendar. Inside there are recipes, games, holiday tips, prompts sized for every age at the table, and a keepsake section where you write down what your family did this year. Grown ups keep the pen; kids keep the memory. That is how a book turns into a tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093654384870,"sku":"6318224","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/1_620db3af-9a10-4e7c-b682-165fa42002d0.jpg?v=1785573387"},{"product_id":"goldilocks-and-the-three-bears-jan-brett","title":"Goldilocks and the Three Bears","description":"\u003cp\u003eEveryone knows what happens in this story. Nobody expects it to look like this. Jan Brett retells Goldilocks in her signature style, where the borders of every page carry a second story running alongside the first, and the bears' cottage is furnished down to the last carved spoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the version that rewards a hundredth reading, because a child who has the words memorized starts hunting the margins instead. Oversized, richly printed, and durable enough to hand down. This is the fairy tale edition that stays on the shelf long after the paperbacks have gone soft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a much younger listener, the same bordered pages come in board: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-hat-oversized-lap-board-book-jan-brett\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eThe Hat: Oversized Lap Board Book\u003c\/a\u003e, Brett's hedgehog story in an oversized lap edition graded 1 to 3 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJan Brett's newest is on the shelf too: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-christmas-sweater-jan-brett\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eThe Christmas Sweater\u003c\/a\u003e, a hardcover published November 2025, in which a boy takes his grandmother's hand knitted sweater and his pug out to Echo Lake and loses both the sweater and the way home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093654581478,"sku":"739311S","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/1_b8263bee-3c79-4c6c-b07b-a0fe6e41d8a0.jpg?v=1785573393"},{"product_id":"hiking-trails-of-the-pacific-northwest","title":"Hiking Trails of the Pacific Northwest","description":"\u003cp\u003eThousands of miles of trail across four states and provinces, photographed by Bart Smith and written up by the regional authors who actually walk them. The Pacific Crest, the Pacific Northwest Trail, the Trans Canada, and the wild country they thread through from Northern California to southwestern British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo hundred and eighty eight pages in a big square format, mixing new photography with maps and archival images most hikers have never seen. It works as a planning book and it works as the thing that sits on the table and starts arguments about where to go next spring. For anyone who has ever pulled over at a trailhead just to read the sign, this is the gift.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093654679782,"sku":"M542727","price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/1_7f50e445-8c49-47af-8583-e00d27988875.jpg?v=1785573397"},{"product_id":"mr-willowbys-christmas-tree","title":"Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003eMr. Willowby's tree is too tall for the parlor, so he trims the top off. The maid takes the top. Then the bear takes what she trims, and the fox takes what the bear trims, all the way down to a mouse with a sprig. One tree, an entire forest of homes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn print since 1963 and still one of the great read alouds, because the pattern is exactly what a small child wants: predictable, funny, and building to a last page that lands every single time. Underneath the rhyme there is a quiet lesson about nothing going to waste, which nobody has to point out. A sequel drawn from a long lost Barry manuscript arrived in 2025, and we carry that too: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/mr-willowbys-head-over-heels-christmas\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eMr. Willowby’s Head Over Heels Christmas\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093654745318,"sku":"9347946","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/1_bf506223-8651-4235-993c-25ba5dafce19.jpg?v=1785573399"},{"product_id":"the-fir-tree-sanna-annukka","title":"The Fir Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003eHans Christian Andersen's least comfortable Christmas story, about a young fir that spends its whole life wishing it were somewhere else. Finnish illustrator Sanna Annukka gives it a graphic, folk art treatment that turns a cautionary tale into something you want to keep in the open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCloth bound in deep forest green with gold foil, no dust jacket, because the binding is the design. It reads in one sitting and looks like an object that cost far more than it did. This is the one you bring to a host who has everything, or keep for the shelf by the tree.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093654810854,"sku":"227669L","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/original_0a903beb-8e6a-4008-9b4a-aa709287fa22.jpg?v=1785573401"},{"product_id":"the-nutcracker-sanna-annukka","title":"The Nutcracker","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore the ballet there was Hoffmann's story, and it is stranger and better than the one most people think they know. Marie finds an odd nutcracker doll among Godfather Drosselmeier's Christmas gifts and ends up in a war, and then in a country made of sugar and chocolate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSanna Annukka illustrates it in the same graphic Finnish style that made her Fir Tree a collector's item, and Ten Speed bound it in cloth as a keepsake rather than a paperback. Read it in December, leave it out all season, and hand it to whoever in your family takes the tree most seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093654909158,"sku":"S181622","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/1_281446bc-1661-47c4-8bc4-786d1d637ab8.jpg?v=1785573403"},{"product_id":"were-going-on-a-bear-hunt-my-first-abc","title":"We're Going on a Bear Hunt: My First ABC","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn alphabet board book that asks for a finger, not just an eye. Each letter is a grooved path a toddler traces with a fingertip, which is how letter shapes actually get into a small brain before a pencil ever does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe animals and plants come from the world of the We're Going on a Bear Hunt film, so a child who already knows the swishy grass and the deep cold river gets to meet the alphabet somewhere familiar. Twelve thick pages, no small parts, and the sort of book that survives being read in a high chair.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093655072998,"sku":"S858505","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/1_760bca8a-65d0-463f-a4f7-b7551ee0028a.jpg?v=1785573408"},{"product_id":"whimsical-stitches-amigurumi-crochet-book","title":"Whimsical Stitches: A Modern Makers Book of Amigurumi Crochet Patterns","description":"\u003cp\u003eThirty amigurumi projects from Lauren Espy, photographed and written out step by step so a first timer can finish something recognizable in an evening. Garden vegetables, aquarium creatures, farm animals, bakery sweets, all in the small round style that made amigurumi a phenomenon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a hardcover, which matters more than it sounds: this is a book that lies open on a table beside a hook and a ball of yarn for hours. One hundred and seventy six pages of patterns, stitch guidance and photos, and the reason a lot of people finally learned to crochet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093655138534,"sku":"3991951","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/1_fa0d1143-d31d-4ad6-af62-96292e56c15b.jpg?v=1785573411"},{"product_id":"corduroys-best-halloween-ever","title":"Corduroy's Best Halloween Ever!","description":"\u003cp\u003eCorduroy is throwing a Halloween party. There will be a jack o'lantern to carve, apples to bob for, and trick or treating after. There is exactly one unsolved problem, and it is the one every four year old in October understands completely: what is he going to be?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA warm, unspooky Halloween read aloud for the age when the holiday is still all costume and candy and no scares. Eight by eight paperback, thirty two pages, light enough to live in a school bag and cheap enough to buy without thinking about it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093655236838,"sku":"9780448424996","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/1_c44442bc-815c-4cab-b3f7-b2824dc61a7b.jpg?v=1785573415"},{"product_id":"corduroys-christmas-surprise","title":"Corduroy's Christmas Surprise","description":"\u003cp\u003eCorduroy has a list for Santa, and it is a good one: a train set, ice skates, the works. Then the season does what the season does, and he figures out that the best part of Christmas was never on the list at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the friendship lesson every parent wants delivered by someone other than themselves, and Corduroy has been delivering it since 1968. Thirty two pages, eight by eight paperback, priced so it can go in a stocking, a gift bag, or a classroom December book basket without a second thought.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093655367910,"sku":"9780448421919","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/1_0e7f9ee6-76e3-45e7-970c-92cd66989338.jpg?v=1785573419"},{"product_id":"richard-scarrys-christmas-mice-little-golden-book","title":"Richard Scarry's Christmas Mice","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo mice wake up to find what Santa left: candy, dolls, even a race car. All of it beautiful. None of it theirs. What follows is a very small story about being remembered, told in twenty four pages by one of the great illustrators of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Scarry drew this in the 1960s and the art has been digitally restored to its original brightness for the Little Golden Book edition, gold foil spine and all. It costs about as much as a coffee and it is the sort of thing a child still has when they are forty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093655531750,"sku":"9780385384216","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/81aWbQvFTnL.jpg?v=1785573424"},{"product_id":"whats-inside-a-birds-nest-rachel-ignotofsky","title":"What's Inside a Bird's Nest?","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe bird outside the window built that nest, laid those eggs, and is running a whole operation your kid has never seen inside of. Rachel Ignotofsky opens it up: what happens in the egg, how a chick hatches, how feathers work, how a nest actually gets built.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIgnotofsky made her name turning dense science into art people hang on walls, and this is that skill aimed at four to seven year olds. Forty eight oversized pages, warm and funny and genuinely accurate, from the creator of the bestselling Women in Science. It is the nature book that makes a kid look up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093655597286,"sku":"W935544","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/1_c86b6ea4-4a01-466b-ac80-7ff13c4ee04f.jpg?v=1785573427"},{"product_id":"wheres-waldo-the-fantastic-journey-deluxe-edition","title":"Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey: Deluxe Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Fantastic Journey, given the deluxe treatment: a jacketed hardcover with an original collectible poster printed on the underside of the jacket, a spot the difference game on the cover itself, and gatefold checklists on every spread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHandford also added artwork that has never appeared in this book before, plus new things to hunt for, so the copy you grew up with is not the copy your kid is getting. Thirty two enormous pages, zero batteries, and the only book that reliably keeps a whole family quiet and leaning over the same table for an hour.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093655695590,"sku":"287457N","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/91T76YC-b0L._SL1500.jpg?v=1785573429"},{"product_id":"jan-bretts-little-library-board-book-set","title":"Jan Brett's Little Library","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree Jan Brett classics in one box: The Mitten, The Hat and Gingerbread Baby, each shrunk to board book size and built for hands that are not gentle yet. It is a whole first library in a package small enough to wrap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrett's illustration is the reason these last. Every page is crowded with animals, embroidery, snow and detail, so a toddler who has heard the words a hundred times still finds something new in the corners. This is the baby shower gift people remember giving, and the one that gets read until the corners go soft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo more Jan Brett board books sit beside this set. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-hat-oversized-lap-board-book-jan-brett\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eThe Hat: Oversized Lap Board Book\u003c\/a\u003e is the big lap edition, about 10.7 inches wide, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/gingerbread-christmas-board-book-jan-brett\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eGingerbread Christmas\u003c\/a\u003e takes the Gingerbread Baby to the village Christmas festival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf the board books have been read to pieces, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-christmas-sweater-jan-brett\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eThe Christmas Sweater\u003c\/a\u003e is Jan Brett's 2025 hardcover, thirty two pages at the full 10 1\/4 by 8 3\/8 inch size where the border illustrations can be seen properly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093655761126,"sku":"W044509","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9780399241833_p0.jpg?v=1785573431"},{"product_id":"fika-the-art-of-the-swedish-coffee-break","title":"Fika: The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break","description":"\u003cp\u003eFika is the Swedish institution of stopping, properly stopping, for coffee and something baked, twice a day if you are doing it right. This charming hardcover explains the ritual and then hands you the goods: classic recipes for cinnamon and cardamom buns, cookies, cakes, rye breads and the salty snacks that carry a Swedish afternoon, adapted for American kitchens by writer Anna Brones and illustrator Johanna Kindvall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are no photographs, and that is the charm. Kindvall's warm line illustrations walk you through doughs and shapes the way a Swedish grandmother's recipe card would, and the book reads as much as it bakes: history, tradition and the case for slowing down, tucked between the recipes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA small, handsome 168 page hardcover that gifts beautifully: pair it with a bag of good beans or a tin of cardamom for a housewarming, hostess or new home present with a built in afternoon ritual.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48101999935718,"sku":"N357977","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/fika-the-art-of-the-swedish-coffee-break-49.jpg?v=1785753706"},{"product_id":"the-wine-and-cheese-board-deck","title":"The Wine and Cheese Board Deck","description":"\u003cp\u003ePull a card, pour the wine it names, build the board it shows. The Wine and Cheese Board Deck packs 50 pairings onto 54 sturdy cards: a gorgeous styled board photographed on the front, and the exact cheeses, accompaniments and pour to match on the back, from bold reds and dry whites to rosés and sparkling moscato.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeg Quinn, the master food stylist behind The Cheese Board Deck, is the reason the boards actually look like the pictures when you make them. Her combinations run from spring picnic boards to cheese and chocolate, and each card stands alone, so the deck works as well for a Tuesday night pour as for a party spread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoxed at roughly 5.5 by 7.4 inches, it lives on the bar cart and gifts brilliantly: housewarmings, hostess thank yous, engagement presents, or anyone whose love language is a loaded board. 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Shark Attack!, Unidentified Flying Mad Libs, Presidential Mad Libs, Meow Libs, Dog Ate My Mad Libs, Mad Scientist Mad Libs and more, all waiting for the perfect noun to ruin them beautifully.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe formula has not changed since 1958 because it does not need to: one player asks for verbs, nouns and adjectives, everyone shouts increasingly poor choices, and the finished story gets read aloud to a room that is already laughing. The oversize pages make the sharing part easy, and along the way players are quietly drilling parts of speech, which teachers have forgiven Mad Libs for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt this size it covers an entire summer of road trips, sleepovers, camp bunks and rained out afternoons. Best for ages 8 to 12, plus every adult who claims to be above it and then asks for the next round.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102000034022,"sku":"9781524791520","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/mad-madder-maddest-mad-libs-52.jpg?v=1785753714"},{"product_id":"united-states-of-mad-libs","title":"United States of Mad Libs","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe world's greatest word game takes the great American road trip. 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But the woods are full of strange sights and sounds tonight, and perhaps even a strange somebody.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat the family actually meets out there turns the walk into something gentler than Peter feared, and the story lands with a reassuring ending that makes it a lovely pick for small listeners who are working out their own feelings about the dark. The artwork keeps the soft, hand-inked look of the classic Beatrix Potter world on every spread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixteen sturdy board pages in a wide landscape format, sized for toddler hands and repeat reads. 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