• Seven-year-old girls love to play with dolls.dolls image by kenmo from Fotolia.com
  
  If you want to buy a gift for a seven-year-old girl your first step should include talking to the girl to ascertain her interests. At age seven, girls display a wide variety of characteristics and personality traits that can determine which type of gift each will appreciate. Some general guidelines can offer ideas for great gifts for a young girl.
  
  

Books

• Books are a classic gift for young girls that she can enjoy over and over. Ideas for books for a girl who likes to read may include "Mr. Popper's Penguins," the "Ramona and Beezus" series or "Harriet the Spy." If you want to buy a book to read to a seven-year-old girl, consider the classic "Little Women" or a book in the Laura Ingallas Wilder series. The author Judy Blume has written many books that specifically speak to young girls and whose content and writing style matches the reading level of a seven-year-old girl.
  
  

Clothes

• Many young girls appreciate a gift of clothing, especially if it has frills and ruffles. Depending on your budget, you can buy the girl a nice dress, a useful shirt and jeans set, some fluffy pajamas or footwear.
  
  

Dolls

• Even in this "wired" age, which offers computer games and activities for younger and younger children, girls still enjoy playing imaginative games with dolls and dress-up. You can buy a doll for a seven-year-old girl a doll, either a fashion doll or a baby doll. If you have a smaller budget you can buy paper dolls that allow the girl to dress up cardboard figures with pre-designed clothes.