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Educational Gifts Celebrate the Uniqueness of Each Child

Guest post by: Maia Haag

Article Overview: I See Me! Inc. Personalized Children’s Books Build Self-Esteem in Children

Educational Gifts Celebrate the Uniqueness of Each Child

How children see themselves can shape who they become and what they achieve. I See Me! Inc. offers parents, grandparents, other relatives and friends a wonderful tool to help build the priceless gift of self-esteem at an early age through its books, My Very Own Name and My Very Own Fairy Tale. Unlike other personalized books in which children’s names are stamped into a designated spot, I See Me! Inc. storybooks are truly unique to each child with a different storyline and even different illustrations in each child’s book. Bound with hard covers, the storybooks are regarded as high quality, wonderful keepsake gifts for newborns and children through age 12. As an added touch, each book includes a personalized dedication from the sender on the first page.

I See Me! Inc.’s first book, My Very Own Name has become a favorite gift of several A-list celebrities including Courtney Cox and Brooke Shields. Winner of the Mom’s Choice Award and iParenting Media Award, the book celebrates the birth and naming of each child. In this beautifully illustrated story, entertaining animals come together to find the perfect name for the new baby. One by one, animals bring letters to spell the child’s first and last name. The lamb brings the “L”, the elephant brings the “E”, and so on, until the child’s first and last names are spelled in rhyme. At the end, the animals celebrate because they’ve created the perfect name. The book also includes the child’s birth date and an illustrated encyclopedia of 61 animals, with fun facts about each. This educational book helps young children learn to recognize letters and spell their names. It makes a perfect birth, adoption, birthday or holiday gift for boys and girls ages 0-8.

In I See Me! Inc.’s book, My Very Own Fairy Tale, little girls are transported into a magical garden where enchanting flower and berry fairies crown her as their fairy princess. Exquisitely illustrated fairies spell out the child’s first and last names, while describing character traits that make the recipient alone the perfect princess candidate. The storyline is designed to build a girl’s vocabulary, letter recognition, and all-so-important self-esteem. Winner of the Mom’s Choice Award and Family Choice Award, the book also includes an illustrated encyclopedia with educational facts about flowers and berries.

Each book is also available in a gift set that includes various accessories to compliment the book, such as an embroidered t-shirt and a plush frog in the My Very Own Name gift set, and a rhinestone tiara and personalized poem in the My Very Own Fairy Tale gift set.

My Very Own Name and My Very Own Fairy Tale are the brainchild of author and mother of three, Maia Haag. I See Me! Inc. has published nearly half a million personalized books for children all around the world. It also donates a portion of its proceeds to First Book, a nonprofit organization that has distributed over 60 million books to under-privileged children in communities around the USA. Hundreds of preschools and elementary schools around the country also receive a portion of book sales through I See Me! Inc.’s fundraising program.

My Very Own Name and My Very Own Fairy Tale can be ordered from the I See Me! website. They will arrive within 2 weeks of ordering. The books are also available at over 500 specialty retail stores, online retailers, in catalogs and fine department stores, such as Nordstrom and L.L Bean.

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