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Showing posts with label giveaways. Show all posts
Showing posts with label giveaways. Show all posts
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Book Giving Day - Giveaways!
It's International Book Giving Day!💕💕💕💕 (Also Valentine's Day - hence the hearts.)
Here are some chances to WIN books and comics - Just for You.
Are you a teacher or librarian? Well, Brightly has a chance to win a bunch of books for your class or book group!
There's a huge DC Comics giveaway being hosted by Shelf Awareness. Check it out.
Do you a Goodreads account? Goodreads has giveaways All. The. Time.
How about YA Books Central? Whoa! This site is new to me but I am signing up! They are giving away Carve the Mark right NOW!
Give away a book today. Check out the Book Giving Day Blog for a list of charities that will pass your book on to someone who needs it.
Print out an International Book Giving Day bookplate. (Check the blog for other bookplates.) Put it in your book and hand it over to a friend. OR, place it where someone will find it. OR donate it to a library (they might put it in their book sale, though) or day care, school, senior center, etc.
Here are some chances to WIN books and comics - Just for You.
Are you a teacher or librarian? Well, Brightly has a chance to win a bunch of books for your class or book group!
There's a huge DC Comics giveaway being hosted by Shelf Awareness. Check it out.
Do you a Goodreads account? Goodreads has giveaways All. The. Time.
How about YA Books Central? Whoa! This site is new to me but I am signing up! They are giving away Carve the Mark right NOW!
Give away a book today. Check out the Book Giving Day Blog for a list of charities that will pass your book on to someone who needs it.
Print out an International Book Giving Day bookplate. (Check the blog for other bookplates.) Put it in your book and hand it over to a friend. OR, place it where someone will find it. OR donate it to a library (they might put it in their book sale, though) or day care, school, senior center, etc.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Giveaways!!!
I have two passes to StoryFUSION!!! They can be used on Friday, April 19th OR Saturday, April 20th to hear Antonio Sacre - who is every bit as much fun to hear as he is to see! Honest. If you want these tickets, comment below.
I also have the COMPLETE hardbound works of Tom Angleberger, including Art2-D2's Guide to Folding and Doodling. However, I am giving these away at my Book Review session at the Kutztown University Children's Literature Conference ONLY. That's this Saturday, April 13th, at Kutztown University. So, sign up NOW! You will not only get a chance to win awesome books, you will also hear presentations by these great authors: Suzanne Fisher-Staples, illustrator Christopher Soentpiet and Janet Wong. Amazing.
I have to go read more books. Good luck.
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| You totally want to see this guy! Honestly! |
I also have the COMPLETE hardbound works of Tom Angleberger, including Art2-D2's Guide to Folding and Doodling. However, I am giving these away at my Book Review session at the Kutztown University Children's Literature Conference ONLY. That's this Saturday, April 13th, at Kutztown University. So, sign up NOW! You will not only get a chance to win awesome books, you will also hear presentations by these great authors: Suzanne Fisher-Staples, illustrator Christopher Soentpiet and Janet Wong. Amazing.
I have to go read more books. Good luck.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
It's Over
The First Fall Giveaway ended last night at 11:59 pm. I am preparing to pick a winner. Check back tomorrow to find out who won.
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| Cool! A book about a winner. If you entered FFG, this could be you! Check back tomorrow. |
Monday, September 10, 2012
Safekeeping - a review
As part of my First Fall Giveaway - I hope there will be a Second Fall Giveaway - I am giving away my ARE of Safekeeping by Newbery Award winner, Karen Hesse.
Hesse's writing is so smooth, reading this book was effortless. And I don't mean that I didn't think about this book. I mean the description of what the main character sees and hears unfold in a seamless way. To me, this is the best way to write fiction. When the reader notices the writer's words and craft, I find it detracts from the story. But, this is a discussion for a day when I have nothing better to type about.
Radley, our protagonist, returns home from volunteering in Haiti when an assassination has thrown America into a panic. Radley's parents have not answered their phones since she insisted on leaving Haiti. But Radley expects them to be there when she gets off her plane, even though she has been routed through Philadelphia. They are not.
In the airport, panic and paranoia reign. People are dragged off by armed military. Radley has to walk from the airport in Philadelphia to her home in New Hampshire - a trip made perilous since her money is in her checked backpack in another airport and her cell phone is dead. And when she finally gets home, her house is empty. And the police are looking for Radley.
Set in a not-so-distant future, in a not-so-implausible America, Radley's story brings to the foreground just what fear can do to a society. When Radley and a stranger travel together to Canada and hide out there, fear is gradually replaced with grudging trust as the two struggle to survive.
Safekeeping stands out from the crowd of dystopian novels that crowd the YA shelves, because it is believable. We experience similar, though not as drastic, security measures when we travel. Stories of people behaving badly when faced with trauma flood the news. There is a touch too much of NOW in this book. The ending, however, is suffused with hope. It buoyed me up.
So, comment on this post - or on yesterday's post - if you want to win my copy of Safekeeping. Or pick a copy up at your local bookstore or library. You will not be sorry.
Hesse's writing is so smooth, reading this book was effortless. And I don't mean that I didn't think about this book. I mean the description of what the main character sees and hears unfold in a seamless way. To me, this is the best way to write fiction. When the reader notices the writer's words and craft, I find it detracts from the story. But, this is a discussion for a day when I have nothing better to type about.
Radley, our protagonist, returns home from volunteering in Haiti when an assassination has thrown America into a panic. Radley's parents have not answered their phones since she insisted on leaving Haiti. But Radley expects them to be there when she gets off her plane, even though she has been routed through Philadelphia. They are not.
In the airport, panic and paranoia reign. People are dragged off by armed military. Radley has to walk from the airport in Philadelphia to her home in New Hampshire - a trip made perilous since her money is in her checked backpack in another airport and her cell phone is dead. And when she finally gets home, her house is empty. And the police are looking for Radley.
Set in a not-so-distant future, in a not-so-implausible America, Radley's story brings to the foreground just what fear can do to a society. When Radley and a stranger travel together to Canada and hide out there, fear is gradually replaced with grudging trust as the two struggle to survive.
Safekeeping stands out from the crowd of dystopian novels that crowd the YA shelves, because it is believable. We experience similar, though not as drastic, security measures when we travel. Stories of people behaving badly when faced with trauma flood the news. There is a touch too much of NOW in this book. The ending, however, is suffused with hope. It buoyed me up.
So, comment on this post - or on yesterday's post - if you want to win my copy of Safekeeping. Or pick a copy up at your local bookstore or library. You will not be sorry.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Winner!
The winner of the amazing Tom Angleberger package of Star Wars Origami Awesomeness is.....Peter Best of Butler PA!!! And Peter does not even have to email me because he sent me his whole address last month. Unless there has been a change!
Once again the Chobani Oracle Cup has given me the winner. My winner choice system is very similar to HGTV's big home giveaway system - except for the warehouse full of entries part. Oh and the several servers worth of online entries. Nope, except for those two very small differences, HGTV and I pick winners of our giveaways in exactly the same way. HGTV randomly chooses one of their huge bins of entries and then reaches in and selects just one.
I write all entries out on identically sized paper and stick them into the Chobani Oracle Cup and close my eyes and pick! Someday, I may have to contend with online entries and a large bin of paper slips. I may even have to move up to a quart size Stonyfield container. For now, my Chobani Oracel Cup will do.
The USPS is closed on Monday. Peter, your prize will be on its way to you on Tuesday. May the Force be with you and all my readers. Dum dum dum dumdedum dumdedum dum!
Once again the Chobani Oracle Cup has given me the winner. My winner choice system is very similar to HGTV's big home giveaway system - except for the warehouse full of entries part. Oh and the several servers worth of online entries. Nope, except for those two very small differences, HGTV and I pick winners of our giveaways in exactly the same way. HGTV randomly chooses one of their huge bins of entries and then reaches in and selects just one.
I write all entries out on identically sized paper and stick them into the Chobani Oracle Cup and close my eyes and pick! Someday, I may have to contend with online entries and a large bin of paper slips. I may even have to move up to a quart size Stonyfield container. For now, my Chobani Oracel Cup will do.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
We have a Winner!
Tracy, you won! I'll email you to get your mailing address - although I can probably just look Adams Memorial Library up online. Yeah, I'll do that. I will put your Advanced Listening Copy of Jack Gantos' Dead End in Norvelt in the mail. Whoo Hoo!
Readers, keep watching this blog. I have another giveaway that I will announce sometime in the next two weeks. And it's even better than this one. I am rubbing my hands with glee just thinking about it.
Tomorrow, a book review. Keep reading!
Readers, keep watching this blog. I have another giveaway that I will announce sometime in the next two weeks. And it's even better than this one. I am rubbing my hands with glee just thinking about it.
Tomorrow, a book review. Keep reading!
Friday, August 12, 2011
Irish Improv story
On Thursday - last week during the Amazing Storytelling Workshop - the kids demanded that Kelly tell a story. Kelly is the Queen of Off-the-Top-of-Her-Head stories. So, Erik had no idea what she was going to say. Enjoy.
The Jack Gantos audiobook giveaway is still on. Comment on yesterday's post - if you comment anonymously give me a way to identify you when I announce the winner - and you could win a pristine, never listened to, Advance Listening Copy - complete with bonus author interview - of the new Jack Gantos novel for the middle school set, Dead End in Norvelt. Jack's stuff appeals to all ages.
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