Did you know that we’re heading into Children’s Book Week? And did you further know about a cool event happening in the book blogging community?
Mother Daughter Book Reviews and Youth Literature Reviews are joining forces to provide you with the opportunity to take part in the Children’s Book Week Giveaway Hop 2014, featuring links to giveaways for fabulous children/teen’s books, gift cards, cash, or other prizes.
Since I love children’s and YA books, how could I resist joining in? I heard about the event from Katy (blogging at A Library Mama) and headed over to sign up–me, and almost a hundred other bloggers!
That means there are lots of prizes going…including a signed paperback copy of my novel, The Wanderers!
I trust regular readers have heard the story already 😉 but for visitors coming over from the Hop (welcome!) here’s a little about the book:
The Wanderers is a Young Adult novel set in a world inspired by fairy tales–but with a bit of a twist! You might recognize the landscape, and you may think you know the rules, but you’ve strayed beyond the tales. Come join a wandering adventurer, a talking cat and a witch’s daughter as they fight monsters, pursue quests, and learn that sometimes, rules are no help at all.
You can learn more here. To enter the giveaway, leave a comment below with your favorite children’s book. The giveaway runs through May 18th, after which I’ll draw a name from a hat, and announce the winner.
Don’t miss the other great prizes available as part of the Hop! Click here to view the complete list of participating bloggers and authors. (Powered by Linky Tools)
To keep this giveaway open across countries, while not incurring prohibitive shipping costs, I’m offering what I did for a past giveaway: if you are in the U.S., I will directly mail you a signed copy. If you are in another country, I will gift you the paperback through Amazon, and mail you a signature to paste into the book.
Giveaway is NOW CLOSED – thanks for reading!
My favorite children’s books are Misty of Chincoteague and the Harry Potter series.
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Both popular favorites!
My favorite was Goodnight Moon.
Lovely…I love the way the room gets gradually darker, and the moon seems to glow brighter.
When you mentioned that, Cheryl, it brought to mind one of my favorites: THE NAPPING HOUSE. Not only is it a great, entertaining little story, but the illustrations are absolutely PHENOMENAL! If you paid attention to the way GOODNIGHT MOON had the light to dark, you probably noticed it in THE NAPPING HOUSE, BUT—if you didn’t (and for anyone who may read this comment), you’ll notice how it begins with the rain, the colors are subdued in hues of blue and the perspective is almost straight on level. With each page turn, the colors slowly intensify and the perspective slightly lifts until you’re nearly directly overhead when the flea bites the mouse. Then as the sun and everyone in the room begins to wake up, the perspective descends back to “level” and the colors become extremely vivid and joyful—totally “awake”! I can’t say enough about it 😀
Great giveaway – thanks for joining us in the Giveaway Hop. Pinning and tweeting…
Thanks for hosting!
Anything that Beverly Cleary wrote was on my “favorite” list, especially her Ramona books.
Can’t go wrong with Cleary, can you? 🙂
I love the Dr Suess books!
So many silly rhymes and creatures! Very fun books.
I love both A Snicker of Magic and The Junction of Sunshine and Lucky. michelle_willms at yahoo dot com.
A Snicker of Magic…I don’t understand, but I like the sound of it!
Charlotte’s Web
A lovely book! Even people who don’t like spiders seem to like it…
I read CHARLOTTE’S WEB when I was a kid and remember loving it, but do NOT remember details and want to read it as an adult and a writer. I have it here waiting in a very long queue of TBRs!
I love Where the Wild Things Are. Thank you
My favorite part of that book is when his room turns into a jungle…such wonderful art!
My favorite is Mortimer K Saves the Day.
I don’t recognize that one…I like the rhyming title though!
Harry Potter is my favorite.
I’m sure you’re not alone in that!
Just too many to choose from. I love Hansel and Gretel.
I know! It’s a hard choice!
My favorite children’s book is Morris Goes To School.
That one’s new to me! Thanks for sharing 🙂
they still read horton hears a who
I think I read that…very long ago…or it may just be one I’ve heard a lot about!
Cheryl, there is absolutely NO way to pick just ONE! BUT…since I’m FORCED due to my greediness for giveaways 😉 I will simply mention, for MG/YA, the ENTIRE Harry Potter series, and for kids, since I read it as a child and loved reading it to my son, I’ll pick GREEN EGGS & HAM or pretty much anything by Dr. Seuss 🙂
You’re right, you’re right, I should have said A favorite children’s book… 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
My favorite childrens book which I recently read is the original Wizard of Oz was very interesting, and different than the movie, I enjoyed it.
I LOVED that movie as a kid, which actually made it a little hard to read the book…but I got over that, have read the whole series more than once, and love Baum’s whimsy!
Returning the visit! Nice to meet you. I love these hops. 🙂 Your book looks great. My favorite book as a kid was Misty of Chincoteague.
Great to meet you too! I’m trying to remember if I’ve read Misty of Chincoteague…maybe, but it’s running together with some other horse books, I’m afraid…oh well, this hop is giving me all kinds of ideas for books I should read/reread!
One of my favorite children’s books was Peter Pan. I also like The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss, I read that to my oldest son everyday for months!
Peter Pan is one of my favorite classics too–have you read The Little White Bird? It has a story-within-a-story that’s a prequel to Peter Pan! And it’s a really charming book.
I love the Harry Potter series, but I’m also kind of partial to my own book, “Daniel the Draw-er”. 🙂
Makes perfect sense to me… 🙂
My favorite children’s book is Free Fall by David Wiesner.
Wiesner is wonderful! I wish I could have read his books as a kid…but I still get to enjoy them now.
Tom Sawyer
Great book…I’ve always been partial to Huckleberry Finn though 🙂
My favorite children’s book was Ramona the Pest. Now my daughter is reading it.
Aww, I love that whole series! Can’t go wrong with Beverly Cleary.
My favorite children’s book is Love you Forever by Robert Munsch 🙂
I’ve heard good things about that one–never read it myself!
Hi Cheryl, thanks for stopping by CarryUsOff Books. It’s good meeting new writer-bloggers! My favourite children’s book (gosh, how do I pick out of a sea of them?) is … Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney. It’s an excellent picture book.
That choosing thing is a dilemma, isn’t it? 🙂 And you chose one I’m not familiar with! Love the title though…what a great name.
My favorite has always been The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A great choice–after all, I named my blog after an L. Frank Baum quote!
The Velveteen Rabbit was my favorite when I was a little girl. I still love it and so do my children 🙂
That’s a very sweet story…though kind of sad too!
the Phantom Tollbooth. I read it every year 🙂
I love all the fun wordplay in that one!
I think I’ll have to stick to the Wind in the Willows, since being a pony book nut makes the list far too long to choose from, otherwise!
That seems to be a popular favorite! This is going to inspire a reread for me…
My favourite children’s book is Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell 🙂
I’ve not heard of that one…thanks for sharing!
My favourite childhood novel is The Hobbit by Tolkien I have very fond memories of being tucked into bed and being read the next chapter by my father. Come to think of it though The Hobbit is still my favourite novel just I have to read it myself now 🙂
Aww! My dad read me Narnia in much the same way. 🙂
My favourite children’s book of all time is Matilda; although I learnt to read with Wind in the willows.
Both lovely books! Now that I’m older (and more widely read) I love looking at Matilda’s list of books and seeing how many I’ve read.
I don’t think I’ve read any of her books, perhaps I should… nope *slap* I have a reading list to stick to!