Holiday Gift Guide by Cool Mom Picks Steer clear of the fruitcake and stinky pine candles, mamas! If it’s cool holiday gifts you’re looking for, then we’ve got you covered with our brand spankin’ new 2009 Holiday Gift Guide.

We’ve scoured the web to help you solve every holiday gift giving dilemma and keep your butts out of the mall with over 100 (Yes that’s right! 100!) of the coolest holiday gift ideas in every price range – whether you’re shopping for that vehicle-obsessed toddler, the perfect grandparents, or your Twilight obsessed niece. Niece – riiiiiiight.

And aside from the recession-friendly prices, like a whole bunch of super cool Hanukkah and Christmas gifts under $20, we’ve got a slew of special holiday discount codes (woo!) to make shopping even easier on your wallet.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a Cool Mom Picks Holiday Gift Guide without gifts for our readers, and thanks to the awesome folks at Chronicle Books and The Fine Art of Family by Monica Rich Kosann, we’ve got them – $250 worth of amazing books and a $200 gift card for gorgeous keepsakes and sterling jewelry for one lucky reader! Just place our Holiday Gift Guide button on your blog or website, and send the url to contests@mompicksprod.wpengine.com with “HGG” in the subject, and we’ll enter you. We’ll pick a winner at random by the end of the year.

So grab that button, click on over, and get shopping! – Kristen & Liz