Baby Shower gifts for Turkish families

Why a book, for this moment

Baby showers are the moment to give expectant parents the things they'll actually use long-term. Most baby shower gifts are practical (clothes, blankets, bottles): but the keepsakes are what get remembered. A bilingual wordbook in the family's heritage language is the kind of gift that signals you understand who this baby is going to grow up to be: bilingual, bicultural, connected to both sides of their family.

For Turkish families raising children in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, France and Belgium, the worry underneath the gift-buying is usually the same one: whether this child will still speak the language when they are ten, or whether it will fade the way it does in most families by the second generation. A book helps most when it is the language actually spoken at home.