A 300-page practical handbook for grandparents and grandchildren to share. The Really Useful Grandparents’ Book is packed with educational games, interesting facts, and fun activities like planning a camp in your backyard, learning chess, making your own fish fingers and even creating a playlist on your iPod. Perfect for young ones as well as the young at heart.

The Really Useful Grandparents’ Book by Nanette Newman, Tony Lacey & Eleo Gordon, US$16.48, Amazon