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03
T-Shirt + Book Giveaway for Read Across America
2009 at 8am Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky
In my snowday craziness laziness yesterday, I completely forgot to post about a great giveaway that I’m very excited to be a part of. Yesterday was Dr. Seuss’s birthday (his 105th, to be exact!), which is now celebrated as Read Across America day. In honor of Dr. Seuss and the love of reading, Cameesa has partnered with a couple book blogs to sponsor a book & t-shirt giveaway.
Here are the deets:
- One winner from each participating blog will win a classic Cameesa tee
- Each of those winners will be entered to win the Grand Prize
So, what exactly is the Grand Prize? It’s a book of your choice, costing up to $100 and a reading-themed t-shirt. That’s right, folks. Any book you want for up to $100. You know that coffee table photo book you’ve been drooling over, or that collector’s edition of one of your favorite novels? It can now be yours.
And the t-shirt? Well, you can choose from the awesome Take Me To Your Reader design, which was featured here last month, or the new “Fiction vs. Non-Fiction” design. Check them out:
Want a free t-shirt? Want the chance to win a $100 book of your choice? Leave a comment here in which you talk about the books/series you loved to read as a child. How did you get these books/series? (ie. library, from parents) Who influenced you to read them? How did reading these books made you feel? You must answer these questions to be entered in the contest.
Blog or Twitter about the giveaway (and leave a link to your post or tweet here) to receive a bonus entry. Winners will be chosen next Monday, March 9th, with a Grand Prize winner chosen shortly thereafter.
Good luck!
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I loved Nancy Drew books. My parents mush have bought them for me, because I remember making little cards for the inside and loaning them out to other little girls in the neighborhood. I don’t know how I got on to them but I loved them passionately and also induced neighborhood girls to act out the stories with me. They probably made me feel empowered. …Or inadequate, for not being like Nancy. It could have gone either way!
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My favorite book series were the Landmark books about famous events . I was lucky to live in a neighborhood that had a bookmobile that came a couple times a week. I loved reading about history. I was born on December 7th, Pearl harbor Day so it seemed natural. I also loved the biography series of the times which would have been from the late 50′s to mid 60′s. I read about every famous person. I loved the story of Clara Barton among others and I think I read every one of both series that was available in my bookmobile. I wound up majoring in history in college and became a school librarian. Biographies and historical books are still a favorite and I treasure the Landmark books & biographies when I can find them at tag and library sales.
Nancy Drew saved my life. Okay, a little dramatic but I had a rotten childhood and spent much of my time in the library. For the longest time I didn’t have my own library card because my parents were not available to sign the form so I read the entire series on the floor of the kids’ section. It took me an entire summer to do it but it was one of the best summers of my life
I don’t think anyone influenced me to read them. I noticed that they took up quite a few shelves and knowing that I had the time, I chose to go with them.
Nancy Drew was so smart and stylish and she had great friends. So unlike my life at the time. I lived vicariously through her and it felt great.
When I was pregnant with my first child I bought several of the books to begin my child’s bookshelf. Then I had a boy! LOL. However, 5 years later I had a girl so she has those books now. I hope she enjoys them as much as I did.
I would love a collector’s edition of a Nancy Drew book.
I read a lot of series as a child, but my favorite was The Babysitter’s Club! I think that my mom bought me one of the books when I was younger because I liked the cover (some things never change) and I was hooked! I joined the scholastic BSC “club” where I got a new book each month and a little goody in the package. I just loved reading these books because they were an escape from the toughness of Elementary School (haha!) I’ve always been a reader and I can say that these books are when I truly became obsessed!
i loved anything by Roald Dahl. My parents humored my obsession and bought me every single one of his books and would read to me every night before bed. As an adult, i continue to read his children’s books, as well as his short stories for adults. i have to say, i was excited beyond belief when i head that The Fantastic Mr. Fox is being made into a movie! It was my favorite and i never knew many people who had read it. I passed on my worn out copy to my younger sister, who is now 7 and loving it!
My third grade teacher, Mrs. Cross (bad name–she was far too nice to ever be cross!), introduced me to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House series. She read the first one to us in class. Then I checked them out from the library. Then I saved my allowance and bought all of them (they were a whopping 95 cents apiece back then). I read them over and over until they were ragged. I loved them because I felt like I had a birds-eye view of pioneer life. It opened up an entirely new imaginative vein for me; I played pioneer for years. To this day, I can’t go past pioneer museums or villages without longing to stop in and see how life was back in the olden days.
I grew up reading Enid Blytons. I started with book for kids when I was in Grade 1 and 2 and then went on to read many many other books by her – the famous five, five find outers and the school girl series – Malory Towers and St.Claires. My school library had tons of Enid Blyton books and that was definitely the stepping stone. My love for books started at that age and I must thank Enid Blyton for giving me a passion that i would treasure for the rest of my life!
I loved the magic of the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books. I would get them from the library. My elementary school had a wonderful librarian who opened the library several mornings a week during the summer. I could walk there and spent so much time there, that she put me to work.
When I was in the fourth grade, I didn’t think that my teacher liked me all that much. For Christmas, he gave me a copy of The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder. It meant so much to me. He didn’t give everyone a book, so it made me feel special to have that book, which he signed. I still have that copy. The rest of the series was given to me by my parents or bought from the store. I honestly can’t remember. What that book symbolizes to me was recognition for my love of reading at an early age. That one book made me want to read the entire series. I just love it. I can’t wait to start reading them to my daughters. I hope that they love them just as much as I do. They won’t be reading my copy of The Long Winter, though. I want it kept nice.
I might bequeath that to my grand-daughter someday.
As a child, I loved anything written by Judy Blume. I think the local librarian suggested one, and I just kept reading.
I loved reading series when I was yong. I loved Dr. Seuss and the Bearenstein Bers. And later I read just about every Nancy Drew book I could. Thanks!
I loved so many books (and series) when I was a child! Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Bobbsey Twins, Chronicles of Narnia … I got most of them from the library. I was such a voracious reader, I rarely had to be influenced to read anything; I felt like I read everything! I always loved escaping into a good book.
Oooh! I want Fiction vs. non-fiction! I personally know the person who inspired that shirt back when it was up for voting on shirt.woot. Unfortunately, it didn’t win; I’m so glad Edgar brought it to Cameesa. I also loved the R.L. Stine series (all of them) when I was a kid, due to how spooky and quick I could read them. I went back recently and read a couple, and they’re not nearly as good as I remembered.
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As a child, I absolutely loved to read any books in which the children were out on their own — usually embarking in some sort of journey! Among the many I loved that come to mind are Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons, Jean Craighead George’s Julie of the Wolves and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. I’ve long considered myself a bit of an “old soul,” and looking back now as an adult, I can see a certain theme emerging from everything I really liked: self-reliance.
And that’s a little strange to me! I come from a tight, close-knit family — and most of my books were recommended to me by my parents and grandparents or chosen at the school library for me by our librarian, who was really nice. I read voraciously in elementary and middle school (hey, not much has changed!) and was always on the look-out for a recommendation.
Reading my favorite books as a kid made feel happy, and secure, and excited. I loved going on adventures with the various protagonists, especially Salamanca Tree Hiddle in Walk Two Moons. I think I read that book a half dozen times. I still remember sitting in my grandmother’s living room one summer, my face buried in the story — and my shock as I was called to get lunch or dinner. I set the book down and blinked, shocked that I was actually in Maryland and not riding in the car with Sal.
And that, to me, is the beautiful thing about books! They really do take you places.
Okay, now that I’ve written a novel… I’d be thrilled to win this contest.
Thanks, Rebecca!
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Well, I am not original here, but my favorite series when I was a child was Nancy Drew. To be perfectly honest I have no idea how I was first introduced to the series, but I do distinctively remember saving my allowance money (50 cents a week, as I recall) and every 3 weeks going to the local Sage department store in Houston and buying my next book ($1.24 plus tax). I remember taking hours (well, at least 10 minutes) deciding which title elicited the greatest suspense. All those yellow covers were magically mesmerizing.
I saved every one of those books, but sadly none of my children was interested in reading them. I still have them in my attic with the hope that perhaps grandchildren will someday enjoy reading the same books of two generations ago.
I loved Nancy Drew too, but one of my absolute favorite series was the Wrinkle in Time series. I think this was something that I stumbled upon while browsing the library.
I recently bought the entire series so that I could re-read it. I hope they are as good as I remember though.
I loved the Hardy Boys series. I borrowed them from the school library and couldn’t wait each week until library day so I could get the next one, it was so exciting. No one influenced me. I was drawn by the cover art and then the back of the book blurb. I wanted to be a detective too! Lol. The books took me to another world of mystery solving and excitement and gave me a lifelong love of books.
May Canadians enter? I loved so many books as a kid, but I’m just going to write about one here. The first book I ever read on my own (without having memorized the whole thing beforehand, I mean) was Blaze and Thunderbolt by C.W. Anderson. Oddly enough, I got it at a machine auction – it was in one of the boxes of junk, and I convinced my dad to buy it. I didn’t really need to be influenced to read it. It made me want to get a horse.
I loved Romona books and the baby sitters club. I would get them off the book mobile. (a traveling library that would park in your neighborhood once a week.) Thanks for the giveaway:)
I loved reading the Fudge series by Judy Blume. Then I moved on to her other books. I got the books from my local library. It was an awesome library too!
My older sister was reading the book before she passed it on to me to read. She always has good taste in books 
The Fudge series always made me laugh. It was a feel-good book.
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Leave a comment here in which you talk about the books/series you loved to read as a child. How did you get these books/series? (ie. library, from parents) Who influenced you to read them? How did reading these books made you feel?
I loved the Nancy Drew books I read as a child, though it doesn’t seem that long ago. I would love to travel with Nancy into those dark not so great places and solve those mysteries. I wanted to help her piece together the clues and get to the heart of the matter. I usually read these books in the school library during breaks between classes or took them home from the library. On the rare occasion I had money, I purchased them; I even got a couple for Christmas from my nana–she was the reading and writing catalyst in my life.
I hope that satisfies all the questions…I would love to win the fiction vs. nonfiction t-shirt..>I have the other one already!
There were so many series that I loved as a child, basically if I found an author I liked, I read everything of there’s that I could find on the library’s shelves. One I especially remember though was Christopher Pike’s novels. The first one I think I stole out of my older sister’s underwear drawer, because I was younger, she always hid her books from me so that I couldn’t read them. I think the one she had came from a bookfair, or something, but I later found more of his books at the library. I love reading these books with their combination of scares, suspense, and even a little romance thrown in!
I was mad about the Nancy Drew series as a girl. I used to walk over a mile (not uphill both ways) to the library as soon as I finished two books, just to get the next two books. I think I loved the series so much because I was a very quiet, timid girl and Nancy’s life was so exciting and dangerous. My parents weren’t readers so I don’t know who might have influenced me to read these books…maybe a friend, or the librarian.
Oh, no debate- Boxcar Children! It was really the only series that I read, well I guess I read The Chronicles of Narnia…but that was later on.
This is a great post, I love what others have to say about their favourite authors and series and such.
oh, and a teacher told me about them and I loved them ever since. I loved the survival-type adventure that the kids expereienced and how they took care or each other and were kind and not grouchy with each other.
The Laura Ingalls Wilder books were my favorites. I started reading them b/c of the TV show and I grew to love them much more than the show.
Thanks for the giveaway!
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When I was a child, I loved The Baby-Sitters Club series. My mother started bringing them home from work one day. She didn’t knowing whether or not they were on my reading level or if I would even liked them. I read them and loved them. She encouraged me to read by bringing home so many different books over the years and just taking a chance. We couldn’t even afford the books. She’s not a reader at all, so it makes me appreciate so much more what she did for me growing up. My mother is the best.
My favorite series to read as a child were the Berenstein Bears. They had so many good lessons. My parents bought a few books and I borrowed a lot from the library. The easy reading and cute illustration made me love to read them. I remember feeling excited when reading about brother and sister bear’s adventures.
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I chanced upon the Edward Eager books when I was a little girl. I picked up Half Magic first and loved it. I couldn’t wait to go back to the library and check out another one. I remember reading each one and hoping, hoping, hoping I would never get to the end of the Eager books.
I did. Sadly. I tried finding other magical books but lots of them that seemed like they would be magical were titled misleadingly. It was only until that I found Wrinkle in Time that I found a book I liked as much as the Edward Eager books.
As a younger child, I loved all of the Clifford books (the big red dog!), as well as the Berenstein Bears. As I got older I became obsessed with Judy Blume books (not exactly a series but still) and then The Babysitters Club became very popular so I read so many of those books. It’s amazing though how the young reader and YA genres have really developed, giving kids and pre-teens/teens so many more interesting reading choices these days!!
At the age of 9 I had read all the books that I owned and there wasn’t a library in our small town. I was complaining to my Dad that I had nothing to read. He went to his bookcase and took out The Far Blue Mountains by Louis Lamour and handed it to me. That was the start. I fell in love with Will Sackett and still am today (40 years later).
The Sackett books span centuries and I learned a lot of history along with the stories.
I remember in 2nd grade, my teacher Mrs. Barnes would have us put our heads down on our desks and she would read from the Box Car Children. I loved that series and would go to our small public library to take out more books in the series. When my kids were old enough I bought a number of the books to read to them at bedtime.
Oh my gosh, i read so may books and series as a child!! I guess my favorites would be The Little House books when I was younger, and The Sweet Valley High books as a preteen and early teenager! Yes, I still have them all, and yes, i still read them LOL!!
I absolutely loved the Oz series as a child. I knew the story of the Wizard of Oz as I think every American child does, but I learned about the series in second grade when my teacher read Ozma of Oz out loud to the class. Those story hours remain one of my favorite elementary school memories. I ordered the rest of the books through the public library and remember feeling so incredibly excited when Glinda of Oz, the 14th and last Oz book written by L. Frank Baum, was there waiting to be picked up. These books made me want to write a book myself – a dream I’m still holding on to.
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