Tips for Parents: Gift Ideas for Eager Young Minds
Davidson Institute for Talent Development
Updated 2009

Suggestions of books, magazines, toys and games appropriate for gifted young people.

The families and staff members of the Davidson Institute Young Scholars program have contributed these ideas to consider when buying gifts for a profoundly intelligent young person:


Reading Lists

Davidson Gifted Reading List

1000 Good Books List

101 Books for Kids 8-13

ALA Notable Books

Best Books List

CTY Johns Hopkins Reading List

Hoagies Gifted Reading List

Reading List

Spaghetti Book Club

Teachers First Reading List

Tempe Public Library Reading List



Other Books

Books & DVDs by The Mathemagician, Dr. Arthur Benjamin

Books by The Verbivore, Dr. Richard Lederer

Calvin and Hobbes Comic Book Series



Magazine Subscriptions

Astronomy

Creative Kids

DIG

Highlights

Creative Kids

Kid's Discover Magazine

Muse

National Geographic Kids

Odyssey Magazine

Ranger Rick

Science News

Smithsonian Magazine

TIME for Kids



Video Games – For Learning & Fun

Age of Empires

Age of Mythology

Descartes’ Cove

Drawn to Life

Math Blaster Series

Reading Blaster Series

Spore

Zoo Tycoon



Games

Apples to Apples

Brain Quest

Chess (Zillions of Games)

Game of Risk



Toys

Chaos World of Motion

Kapla Wooden Building Blocks

K’NEX

Rubik’s Cube

Zometools



Miscellaneous

Art Supplies - Gift Ideas for Young Artists

Boomwhackers

Mini Dino Excavation Kits - Dig It Up

Storytelling Recordings and Performance by Jim Weiss

The World of Origami

Thames and Kosmos Science Kits



If you have information to add to this list, please email administrator@davidsongifted.org with “Gift Ideas” in the subject line.


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