1943 · Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 96 pages · Children's Literature
Saint-Exupéry's tiny philosophical fable about a boy from a small asteroid is one of the most translated books in history, and its deceptively simple observations about love, loss, and what matters continue to wreck adults who thought they'd outgrown it.
1961 · Norton Juster · 272 pages · Children's Literature
Norton Juster's pun-filled journey through the Lands Beyond is one of the cleverest children's novels ever written, a book that makes learning feel like an adventure and treats language itself as the greatest toy in the world.
1865 · Lewis Carroll · 176 pages · Children's Literature
Lewis Carroll's trip down the rabbit hole remains the gold standard of literary nonsense, a book so deeply embedded in popular culture that reading it feels like visiting a place you've already been, only stranger.
2008 · 3-8 Players · 30 min · Competitive / Party
Dixit turns abstract art into a guessing game powered by imagination, and the result is one of the most accessible and inviting party games of the past two decades. It rewards creativity over strategy and social familiarity over raw skill, which makes it sing with the right group and fall flat with the wrong one. Card repetition and limited depth keep it from being a game you reach for every week, but when the table clicks, nothing else in the party game space quite matches the feeling. For families and friend groups looking for something warm, creative, and refreshingly different, Dixit earns its Spiel des Jahres.