Best reads for Christmas - win £600 of books

Looking forward to including with the usual groceries, some Xmas treats to our local Foodbank. Seeing families coming out of the front door with some provisions as we hand in our donations at the back door doesn't exactly give us a 'rosy glow', but we feel we're doing a bit to help.
We have asked family and friends to do the same, rather than give us presents. ???

I am hoping for a new puppy!

Looking forward to giving my dd some nice pampering toiletries as well as being there for her as her partner is undergoing tests for serious illness. Also looking forward to spoiling my little dgd

I'm looking forward to all the wee presents. Remembering little things people have talked about during the year and trying to get something really personal for them!

My Mum instilled in me a love of reading from an early age, and my earliest memories are of us heading off to our local library together with empty bags and our creased library tickets, ready to fill them with books.
For the last year, my Mum has been living bravely with lung cancer, never complaining, never asking for a thing from her family and just worrying about us instead.
So, this Christmas I’m heading to my parents house so I can take my Mum to the library or just book shopping to treat her to every book she wants, just like she did for me.

Mum made Christmas for us by sitting up late on Christmas Eve and turning the house into something magical by putting out our pressies under the tree and foodie treats and extra decorations and sparkle after we children had gone to bed, it was so exciting to come down too on Christmas morning. I do the same for my children still and they are in there 40s and now my first grandchild is just old enough to see the magic and he will come down on Christmas morning to find a tunnel and den set up in the sitting room. He will love it. My mum died last Christmas I hope she is watching down on us to see the tradition continue.

I am looking forward to giving the gift of books to friends and family who enjoy them. In my view there is an immense amount of pleasure in choosing a book that you think someone will enjoy whether it be a fictional book to drop into and escape for a while, a cookbook full of delicious recipes to try or perhaps a philosophical book to challenge a perspective.

I'm looking forward to giving my daughter some time off whilst we look after her manic nearly 2 year old, we love having him and my daughter appreciates time to herself and with her husband. They may be moving away next years so I'm making the most of it

I am really looking forward to giving my joint present of Laser guns to my DGS of 6 and 8( I know you may all disapprove of guns. These are country children with a respect for life and death). Its a tag game where the vest they wear shows the number of touches by colour . The first with ten touches is out and the vest changes colour.They are live wires constantly on the move, a great partnership with masses of outside space to play.

My two kids and four grandchildren live about 500 miles away. This year will be the first time I will see them all at Christmas. So my gift to my family this year will be loads of love, plenty of hugs and lots of fun!

I don't have any specific gifts that I am giving that are special, but my daughter will be here at home to celebrate with us and that will be the best gift to me (that and endless mince pies)

I’m really looking forward to getting the family all together. No big presents this year just good health and love.

My great grandson is nearly 2 and I want to give him some Tractor Ted toys as he already loves his Tractor Ted books.

I am looking forward to giving my son a gaming PC he has been asking for the last year

I couldn't possibly tell you what the best present I'm going to give is - it will make everyone jealous - especially when they find out it's a gigantic box of chox for ME!

I bought DD and family a family photoshoot with a lovely photographer who specialises in informal, rather than posed, family photos.

I’m so looking forward to giving our family’s Secret Santa gift to my chosen recipient and watch all the other SS gifts being exchanged by the family that have got me through the most dire time of my life over the last year. Their ongoing support and love is what is keeping me going.

I am most looking forward to giving my daughter a letter from Sir David Attenborough. He is her hero, she worships him and everything he stands for, so I wrote to him and asked him to send a photo to her. She lost the love of her life in a car accident (she's 33) some time ago, and she struggles daily to come to terms with it. My heart breaks for her, and I would love to see her smile again, and am hoping that a letter from her hero on Christmas Day will make her happy.

A donation to Crisis so they can welcome someone homeless in on Christmas Day, with my love and very best wishes that their future is brighter than their today!

I'm looking forward to giving my daughter and son in law a voucher for dinner at a restaurant I know they will love - AND a promise of overnight babysitting so they can relax and enjoy it. (Bonus for us - we get our lovely granddaughters overnight!)

The Disney villains books I’ve bought for my (grown up) granddaughters who love everything Disney will be such a surprise!

Lovely! Rather envious!

Sounds lovely! Would love to see picture of picture blanket.

Hope she loves it. I gave my granddaughter an easel with bracket for paper roll cum blackboard last year with paint pots and chalks. Was told she liked chalking but wondering if she has mastered not snapping every stick of stuff now.

3 yr old DGD loves watching the hedgehog that forages in her garden. I’m really looking forward to giving her a hedgehog picture blanket I’ve made especially for her. Every stitch made with love.