Delights for a 4 year old (or 2, 3, 5, 6)

Here are a few of the beautiful gifts Ilo received for his 4th birthday, I feel like they were chosen or made with so much intention and consideration, so very special. They have already been adored, played with and delighted over. 

• little foxes mask and vintage snakes and ladders

• handmade hooded cape made with love by Woo using this book
• a perfect bag for all sorts of adventures made lovingly by Victoria
• a beautiful felt pencil case and the necessary brushes for everything from discovering dinosaur bones, applying fairy dust and even painting
• handmade finger puppets from Jen (how gorgeous is the display hand), the elephant and the rabbit are particularly well loved

Other loved gifts, not pictured here included a shovel, a whole lot of flowers to plant in Ilo's garden, a precious little pouch from Sharma full of fairy glitter, a hanging fairy lure, tiny sparkly stars and a fairy crystal and of course Ilo's very own panda. 

I decided to include a whole lot of Ilo's favourite books at the moment including some that he received as presents, the right book will be held close for so many years, some are even held firmly in the child's mind and heart well into adulthood. They are the most perfect gift.

• Annie's Rainbow - Ron Brooks
• An Awesome Book - Dallas Clayton
• An Awesome Book of Thanks - Dallas Clayton
• Miss Rumphis - Barbara Cooney
• Brambley Hedge Winter Story - Jill Barklem
• To Market to Market - Nikki McClure
• Nobody Owns the Moon - Tohby Riddle
• Just Another Ordinary Day - Rod Clements
• The Fairy Houses Trilogy - Tracy Kane
• A Child's Book of Seasons - Satomi Ichikawa
• The Barefoot Book of Earth Tales - Dawn Casey

• The Shore Beyond - Mary Joslin
• The Runaway Dinner - Allan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingram
• The Magic Beach - Alison Lester
• The King and the Seed - Eric Marden
• All through the Year - Anna Walker
• When you were small - Sara O'Leary
• The Clever Stick - John Lechner
• Oh the Thinks you can Think -Dr Seuss (other favourite Seuss books are The Lorax and Oh the Places you'll go)
• Mama is it Summer yet? - Nikki Mc Clure
• The Adventures of a Nose - Viviane Schwarz
• Flamingos on the Roof -Calef Brown

There are quite a few more but I hope this will suffice. 

• Oh and a magic growing tree (do you remember these?), pretty fun.