While adult readers looked for books that would tell them something about the contemporary moment in 2017, kid readers were happy to stick with the classics. Year after year, certain picture books remain popular with the world’s newest readers. According to Amazon’s Kindle and Audible data, the most popular children’s book to give as a gift in 2017 was Giles Andreae’s Giraffes Can’t Dance, illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees and originally published in 1999.