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“The city mouse lives in a house;—
The garden mouse lives in a bower,
He’s friendly with the frogs and toads,
And sees the pretty plants in flower.”
—Christina Rossetti, Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (1872)
Mouse on Books and Reader Mouse Ornaments
These mice are spending the holidays the best way we know how: with books.
The Reader’s Catalog commissioned these ornaments from Creative Women, a luxury lifestyle brand driven to empower female artisans and preserve traditional textile heritage. They make well-made products that really last and that you can feel good about buying. Exclusive to The Reader’s Catalog, our mouse ornaments are ethically handmade by artisans in Nepal.
Make-Your-Own Holiday Crackers
The kit contains everything you need to make six different gorgeously colored and exuberantly patterned crackers.
Richard Scarry Advent Calendar
This reusable Advent calendar features twenty-five pop-out ornaments inspired by the busy, busy world of Richard Scarry that are perfect for decorating a Christmas tree or crafting an adorable wreath.
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Christmas Bookshelf Advent Calendar Card
This festive Advent calendar is designed to sit on your bookshelf or mantelpiece like a greeting card. You’ll find a festive image from the Bodleian collections behind each of the twenty-four Advent calendar doors.
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Woody Guthrie’s “New Years Rulin’s” Greeting Cards
Woody Guthrie wrote these heartfelt and playful resolutions on New Year’s Day, 1943. From “Don’t Get Lonesome” and “Dream Good,” to “Love Everybody,” these all-occasion cards delight and inspire in any season.
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Orange Surprise Ball
Surprise balls make excellent gifts, party games, and party favors. Unwind colorful layers of crepe paper ribbon to reveal many fun treasures inside this festival ball. Each layer has a new surprise, including vintage inspired toys, crystals, temporary tattoos, sweets, crowns, games, and more. Pop one into the toe of a Christmas stocking for a fun twist on tradition.
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Everlasting Advent Calendar
This Advent Calendar Tree is constructed from robust 600 gsm uncoated ivory cardstock, printed in hand-mixed colors. It includes twenty-four individual decorations—stars, hearts, animals and birds,—which are slotted one-by-one into place on the successive days of Advent, ending with the star at the top of the tree, which is the culmination of the ritual on Christmas Eve.
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Reader’s Gift In Green
Holiday Cards
Before the advent of dust jackets, many books, especially those for children, were bound in brightly colored cloth with pictorial blocking in gold and colors. These Christmas titles were thus presented as attractive gifts.
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New York City Almanac and Planner, 2027
For New Yorkers, New Yorkers at heart, anyone who has ever visited New York, anyone who is longing to visit New York… rest assured, you don’t have to be a resident of the five boroughs to appreciate the Almanac of New York City.
Yes, it’s a day-by-day guide to the coming year in NYC: cultural events, holidays, historical anniversaries, weather predictions, the night sky. Each week gets its own page, with enough space to record your own appointments.
A sampling of daily entries noting past events:
January 8 (1904): New Yorker magazine cartoonist Peter Arno is born in New York City
February 8 (1966): Bob Dylan poses in the Meat Packing District for the image used on the cover of Blonde on Blonde.
July 5 (1989): Seinfeld debuts on NBC.
An annual favorite, the Almanac is an event calendar and planner, but it’s much, much more—one might say a daily dose of adrenaline with a side of municipal pride.
Winter Bird Triptych Holiday Card
Decorated with festive images of foliage and a beautiful bird, the card makes an attractive mantelpiece ornament and a small but thoughtful gift. The card comes individually wrapped with a cream diamond flap envelope and is wrapped in biodegradable cellophane. It has no message.
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Winter Trees Triptych Holiday Card
This three-dimensional triptych card, which reads “Very Merry Christmas” on the front, opens in the center to reveal an additional internal image in three parts, reading “And Happy New Year.” Decorated with festive images of winter trees, the card makes a very attractive mantelpiece ornament and a small but thoughtful gift.
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Happy Hanukkah Letterpress Greeting Cards
Celebrate the festival of lights with these handmade letterpress greeting cards, reading “Happy Hanukkah” on a blue pattern featuring a lit menorah. The set includes six cards and kraft envelopes. The cards are blank inside for your message.
Peace and Goodwill Holiday Cards
These cheery blue-and-gold holiday cards are inspired by the David Jones lettering in the permanent collection of Kettle’s Yard, a unique house and gallery with a remarkable collection of twentieth-century art that is a part of the University of Cambridge in England.
Deck the Hall Holiday Card
This set of six letterpress cards is perfect for the ancient Yuletide caroler or to cheer up a scrooge. This Christmas card features the sheet music and original English lyrics of the chorus to “Deck the Hall,” written by Welsh musician Thomas Oliphant in 1862, with a Welsh melody dating back to the sixteenth century. “Happy holidays to you and yours” is printed in fine gold foil underneath the notes.
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Silent Night Holiday Card
This set of six letterpress cards is perfect for holy nights and heav’nly hosts to bring peace and good wishes to the holiday season. The card features the sheet music and lyrics of the chorus to “Silent Night” composed by Austrian composer Franz Xaver Gruber in 1818 and written by Austrian priest Joseph Mohr in 1816. “Merry Christmas to you” is printed in fine gold foil underneath the notes.
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Edward Gorey Cat in Scarf
Holiday Cards
A grinning cat sporting a preposterously long red and white scarf? Classic Edward Gorey. Wrap your friends and family in the warmth of the season. Twelve cards with thirteen envelopes. Inside message: Season’s Greetings.
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Instead of a Card: Christmas Lights for Winter Nights
This collection of ten seasonal poems is in the “poetry instead of card” series, based on the idea that sending a greeting card is a lovely gesture, and sending a booklet of poetry an even more meaningful one.
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Woodpecker Christmas Cards
Peck, peck, peck—this downy woodpecker spells out “Merry Christmas” on a tree, spreading holiday cheer to warm up the cool winter scene. Subtle colors of dawn grace the sky, glowing softly above the snow of distant hills as this busy fellow works. Inside greeting reads: “Bringing you best wishes for a cheery holiday and a glad new year.”
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Joyous Kwanzaa Greeting Cards
These Kwanzaa greeting cards feature green, black, and red tapered candles, to send your loved ones wishes for a “Joyous Kwanzaa.” Each set includes eight cards and coordinating envelopes, packaged in a simple kraft stationery box with a window front. The cards are blank inside for your message.
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A cheeky fox jaunts through a snowy birch forest on this letterpress greeting card. The complementary colors of blue and orange showcase a special vibrancy that can be achieved by using a letterpress. The inside greeting reads: “May this season of beauty be a season of joy for you.”
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Edward Gorey Holiday Card Assortment
’Tis the season to be Gorey… This is Edward St. John Gorey at his festive best. Join him to sip the flaming punch, sample a cookie, dispose of the fruitcake, and decorate the fireplace. Twenty assorted cards and envelopes.
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Dark Forces Holiday Greeting Cards by Glen Baxter
“It is December and already dark forces are gathering.” These holiday cards are sure to enchant both confirmed Baxterians and those in dire need of an introduction.
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Uncle George Holiday Greeting Cards by Glen Baxter
“In order to escape the insidious commercial excesses of Christmas, Uncle George opts for a quiet weekend away from it all.” Eight cards and envelopes in a pack.
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Booklover’s Holiday Cards
Share the joy of the season with this holiday card showcasing a historic poster created for a WPA Library Project, circa 1936–40. The words and image express the happiest of thoughts: “A Year of Good Reading Ahead.” Ten cards and envelopes. Blank inside.
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“Give Us Peace” Letterpress Cards
This letterpress holiday card is printed with the Latin Dona Nobis Pacem, which may be translated as “Give Us Peace.” The cards are printed in gold foil on 100% cotton, cream-colored matte paper and are blank inside.
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Holly Holiday
Correspondence Cards
Share the joy of the season with these flat letterpress correspondence cards, reading “Happy Holidays,” with a charming illustration of holly leaves. Each set includes six flat cards and envelopes.
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James Joyce Holiday Cards
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe.”
This quote from James Joyce’s short story “The Dead,” from Dubliners, is printed on pale, cream-colored stock that is acid-free, 100% recycled, FSC certified, and carbon neutral.
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Nordmann Fir Holiday Card Set
This set of six holiday cards features a vintage Christmas tree illustration adapted from Neerland’s Botanic Garden: Pictures and Descriptions of Ornamental Plants for Garden and Room (1865). Courtesy of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Something for Christmas
In Palmer Brown’s beloved story of a little mouse’s search for a very special gift for a very special person, nothing seems just right until the little mouse realizes that the best present of all is already at hand. Brown has given us something special for Christmas—a lovely story, filled with the true spirit of the holiday season.
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Christmas Tree Wrapping Paper
This holiday wrapping paper features vintage illustrations of Nordmann fir trees decorated with festive ornaments, adapted from Neerland’s Botanic Garden: Pictures and descriptions of ornamental plants for garden and room(1865). Courtesy of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Vintage Christmas Wrapping Paper
This nostalgic Christmas wrapping paper features festive illustrations created from ornaments and decorative blocks found in the 1923 American Type Founders Specimen Book and Catalogue which advertised typeface character sets and decorative flourishes to printers and designers.
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Snowflakes Wrapping Paper
This classic wrapping paper is perfect for any snowy holiday, featuring unique vintage snowflake designs adapted from Snow-flakes: a chapter from the book of nature, published by the American Tract Society in 1863. Courtesy of University of California Libraries.
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The Little Prince Wrapping Paper
The design features images from Saint-Exupéry’s novella, including characters from the story, along with lines from the book (in Italian). Made by a company in Tuscany, the centuries-old cradle of the noblest paper manufacturing traditions. Imported from Italy.
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Vintage Italian Travel Poster
Wrapping Paper
Printed in sumptuous colors with metallic gold accents, the design features vintage travel posters advertising famous Italian towns and cities; acid-free and therefore also suitable for bookbinding, scrapbooking, and other creative projects. Imported from Italy.
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Hot Air Balloons Wrapping Paper
In the 1780s, the Montgolfier brothers and Jacques Charles engaged in a spectacular race to levitate into the sky using balloons. Their “artificial clouds,” as one writer described the flying globes, would enthrall the French capital and set off a craze known as “balloonomania.”
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The New York Review of Books Baseball Cap
Celebrate your favorite magazine with our baseball cap. This smart black cap has the New York Review of Books logo in bright red. 100% cotton; adjustable velcro closure.
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