WorkTale Book Company Gift Finder — Find the Right Book in Three Questions

Answer three questions — who you are shopping for, what kind of work they do, and the occasion — and the WorkTale Book Company gift finder recommends the right version of our personalized children's book about a parent's real job. Free to use; hardcover from $29 USD.

The three questions

1. Who are you shopping for? A mom, a dad, a grandparent, or someone else.
2. What kind of work do they do? Science and research, healthcare, tech and engineering, aviation and transport, law and finance, skilled trades, education and community, food and hospitality, first responders and military, or something unusual.
3. What's the occasion? Birthday, Father's Day, Mother's Day, retirement, a new job or work milestone, or just because.

Popular results

• What do you get a marine biologist who is also a parent?
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• What do you get a firefighter, police officer, or paramedic who has kids?
• What's a gift for a lawyer whose kids have no idea what they do?
• What's a good gift for an electrician, plumber, or builder with kids?
• What do you get a chef or baker who works while their kids sleep?
• What's a meaningful gift for a healthcare worker with young children?
• What do you get someone whose kids think they just sit at a computer?

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How every WorkTale book ends

Every WorkTale book closes with two pages no name-swap personalized book has. First, a "So, what does Mommy, Daddy, or your grown-up do?" page that distills the parent's entire job into one plain-spoken line a child can recite from memory, with no jargon and no job description. Then an "About the Author" page with the parent's real photograph, name, job title, and a short biography blurb, so the illustrated hero is revealed as the real person the child knows. Why the parent is the hero.