Who is graduating this year? Your goddaughter. Your little sister from kindergarten. The neighbor's little girl who was in diapers last year and is now going to first grade.

And you don't feel like buying the same school supplies set as everyone else.

This is a piece of wood. About the size of the palm of your hand. A pastel watercolor drawing: a bunny in a graduation cap, with pink flowers on top of the cap, holding a small rolled-up diploma.

Not a cartoon. More like an illustration from an old storybook — the kind you read to them at night until they fell asleep.

Round maple wood pendant, with a polished surface and a sharply printed figure. Tied at the top with a jute twine bow — already gift-ready as it arrives. You don't need to add anything around it.

She can hang it on her bed's headboard. She can place it on her dresser shelf. She can tie it to her backpack. It will still be there in 10 years, when you can no longer find the kindergarten group photo.

It arrives in a velvet decorative bag. Not cellophane. Not a plastic bag.

For your goddaughter. For your little sister from kindergarten. For your first-grader grandchild, whom you want to surprise with something extra besides the main gift. Something that won't wilt in three days.

A fresh bouquet is in the vase on Friday. In the trash on Monday. This will still be on her shelf in ten years.