Columbus School for Girls
Holiday Gift Guide
2017
At CSG, empowering girls to discover their distinct potential as learners and leaders is an everyday pursuit. This holiday season, in that empowering spirit, we’ve put together a list of last-minute gifts that will bring out the engaged, inspired, problem-solver in every girl.
Interactive Gifts for Problem-Solvers:
Orbotix Sphero offers app-controlled robotic balls to get your future problem-solver thinking!
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Robot Turtles is a board game that sneakily teaches the fundamentals of programming.
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Goldie Blox creates innovative and fun toys for girls, designed to develop early interest in engineering and confidence in problemsolving.
Qwirkle can be as simple as matching colors and shapes, but this game also requires tactical maneuvers and well-planned strategy.
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An End of Year Gift that Keeps on Giving Every donation to the CSG Annual Fund goes directly to the mission of “Empowering girls to discover their distinct potential as learners and leaders.�
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“Barbara Bonner brings together stories, poems, and quotes about courage in a wonderful way that reveals the power, coherence and variety in our collective, indeed global, voices of courage. Inspiring Courage is an inspiration!” (Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness)
Buy this book Kristen Orlando ‘01
“If you are a fan of Ally Carter’s Gallager Girls or Heist Society, You Don’t Know My Name needs to be on your radar. The protagonist is a strong, likable character and the romance that develops is sweet. Then there is the heart-stopping action and the suspenseful and explosive ending.” -Romantic Times Book Review
Buy this book Carlotta Penn ‘99 “This book is super cute! I am a retired Kindergarten teacher who still teaches reading and bought this book for my students and grandkids. Love the illustrations. Nice that it teaches the colors of the rainbow and has a message of dreaming big. Also a great book if you are looking for multicultural children’s books.” - Amazon reader review
Buy this book "A book, too, can be a star, explosive material, capable
of stirring up fresh life endlessly,a living fire to lighen the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” – Madeleine L’Engle Author of A Wrinkle in Time
Columbus School for Girls
Barbara Bonner ‘65
Holiday Gift Guide
Books to engage and inspire by CSG Alumnae:
Jessica Fries-Gaither
Charlotte Stiverson
“Great book! This book will spark some wonderful conversations with your children.” - Richard P Golden “The conclusion is not typical and warm and fuzzy. The character found resolution, peace, and happiness in her own way. These are valuable life lessons every kid needs to learn.” - S. Brown “I believe K has mastered the art of friendship” - Amazon Reader
Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings brings to life the many ways in which everyone from Galileo to Jane Goodall has used a science notebook, including to sketch their observations, imagine experiments, record data or just write down their thoughts. You also get four steps to starting your own notebook, plus minibios of the diverse featured scientists.
“Nellie’s Walk is a realistic but gentle presentation of concerns children have as their parents go through cancer chemotherapy. The creative use of changes in seasons as an allegory for changes in the physical appearance resulting from chemotherapy places the experience in an understandable perspective for children” - Meller P. Davis, MD, FCCP, FAAHM
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Additional titles: Bridges: Amazing Structures to Design, Build & Test (Kaleidoscope Kids) by Carol A. Johmann and Elizabeth Rieth - Buy this book Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty - Buy this book Steve Caney’s Ultimate Building Book by Steve Caney - Buy this book Strong is the New Pretty by Kate T. Parker - Buy this book
Learn more about CSG at www.columbusschoolforgirls.org
Columbus School for Girls
Kay Fetters
Holiday Gift Guide
Books to engage and inspire by CSG Faculty: