For “Girl Power” Gifts

AWESOME BROOKLYN, 617 Flatbush Ave., Prospect–Lefferts Gardens; awesomebrooklyn.com

if you’re looking for kid stuff “that you feel good about gifting,” says Kevin Banahan, a former environmental scientist at Harvard and now the owner of Brooklyn skateboard shop SKATEYOGI, this familyrun gift emporium is the place for you. There’s a robust selection of girlpower gifts, like the Little Feminist Mini Memory

Match game ($5) and the “Be Bold, Baby!” series of books, plus a selection of goods from Black-owned companies, like an “I Love Hip Hop” kids’ T-shirt ($26). Banahan’s favorite purchase so far is a book called What Is Hip-Hop?, by Eric Morse: “It just caught my eye as being such a cool presentation of the history of hip-hop music geared toward a younger reader through rhyming and clay-model illustrations,” he says. “More practically, they have been constantly stocking a supply of fashionable face coverings to help the neighborhood keep safe.”