Gift for grandparents: a book with their grandchildren

What do you buy grandparents who have everything?

Most grandparents say they need nothing, and they are usually right. Another jumper soon ends up in a drawer. What they do not have is a book with the grandchildren in it, where they see themselves drawn too. That is why a personalised book makes a gift for grandparents that stays on the coffee table rather than in the cupboard.

As a gift for grandparents it suits a birthday, a name day, Christmas, or an ordinary day when you simply want to say thank you. It has 24 pages, with the dedication on the first.

Which topics work as a gift for grandparents?

On Vivlary, books for the family have their own topics. Each topic brings its own story, built around your people, and you can start straight from the “For grandma” topic. For a gift for grandparents, these are the topics worth a look:

• “For grandma”: a gift for grandma that thanks her for the hands that know every recipe without scales and the kitchen that smells of cinnamon.
• “For grandpa”: a gift for grandpa, the one who tells stories at the table, stories that grow a little every time.
• “A big thank-you”: for parents, grandparents and godparents, with a yard that is always open.
• “At grandma and grandpa's”: here the grandchild is the hero, in a children's book for ages 0–2, 3–5 and 6–9, spending a day at the house with the biscuits.

How do the grandchildren get into the book?

The first person is the one the story is for: grandma, say. Then you add grandpa, the children and the grandchildren, up to 6 people in all. For each grandchild you give their age group or “18 and over”, and the story knows how each person is related to grandma.

Imagine that Eleni has a granddaughter at university and two little ones at nursery. They all fit into the same personalised book, and every name is spelt exactly as you typed it.

The dog in the yard or the cat on the armchair can come too: it is drawn from its own photos, counts as one of the people and stays an animal in the story. In this way a gift for grandparents becomes a book with the grandchildren and the whole house in it.

A digital or a printed gift for grandparents?

Many grandparents like to hold a book in their hands. The printed personalised book is a hardcover, 21 × 29,7 cm, and costs €43.40 with the digital book included. Before it is printed, you see the complete digital book and approve it.

The digital book, at €12.40, is read online in your account. If you start with it, you can order the printed one later and pay only the difference. All the amounts are on the prices page.

When the grandparents will read the book themselves, look through the 6 typefaces: “School reader” recalls the old Greek school books. The language of the book, Greek or English, is a separate choice, which helps when the grandchildren are growing up abroad.

How is it made, and what happens to the photos?

Each step asks one question: who the book is for, who is in it, the topic, the look, the dedication, the photos. Then you see the cover, the first three pages and two pages from the middle for free, with a watermark. The steps in detail are in our guide to making a personalised book.

For each person you upload up to 5 photos, which are checked on your own device, used only for your book and deleted automatically. See the photos page.

If the gift for grandparents is a surprise, ask the rest of the family for photos without saying why. For a gift for grandpa alone, start from the “For grandpa” topic. And write the dedication together with the grandchildren.

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