第二篇：gift
There is a growing awareness that an educational gift can contribute to a child’s development. If let me choose one, doubtlessly, I will choose an educational book to be my gift. A great book is a great friend. A number of scholars believe that books is among the most wonderful inventions that human beings have ever invented. Several possible reasons to my choice can be provided.
The first reason why I make such a choice is that educational books always contain great ideas. A book can be a brief of a great man’s life, a research of a new discover, and a literature of a prominent writer. They all offer great, brilliant and splendid thoughts. And all these good thoughts contained will inspire children.
Another reason why I make such a choice is that a book can be a permanent treasure, being a sharp contrast to some costly gifts. Suppose you give your little nephew an expensive car model, what will happen after a decade? No doubt, it will be a crude metal junk or be already missing, whilst a book, as long as its paper is still paper, is always useful with its internal value.
The last but most convincing reason why I make such a choice is because of my personal experience. When I was 15, my uncle brought me a book, named The Painted Veil and written by Maugham. The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive. It influences me a lot and helps me build strong character including persistence, courage, independence, and positive outlook of life, even though The Painted Veil is usually described as a strong story about a woman's spiritual journey of awakening.
From what has been discussed above, we may easily draw a conclusion that a book will be a perfect gift that can contribute a child’s development, because a book contains great thoughts, because a book remains its value, and because I have experienced. ‘What we became depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books’, as Thomas Carlyle wisely put it.
