Moms Wear Your Tees Blog: book giveaway

My kids love to read! And my five year old daughter loves to draw! In fact she draws so much that I constantly have to recycle some of it. (It is bad when she catches me- "What is this doing in the recycling, Mama?!") So when I read about Picture It Picture Books, I knew we would have a hit. We can all enjoy reading, she can have fun drawing, I can have a nice, neat, easy to store keepsake, she's proud, I'm proud, so of course, I wanted these Picture It Books!

Picture It Picture Books come in six different books that help inspire children by leaving room for their imagination and illustrations. First we read, Goodnight Dreams Picture Book, Both my son and my daughter really enjoyed the story and then my daughter had a lot of fun illustrating. And of course, I had a lot of fun watching her and reading it again with her illustrations. It was really neat to see what she pictured the characters' dreams to be like. All six books have a solid entertaining story line and plenty of room for your child's masterpieces. These would make a fabulous gift for any child to encourage their creativity and love of reading.

Our unique line of ‘picture books without pictures’ are a perfect way for children to explore their creativity by getting lost in the stories and illustrating whatever comes to mind. Not only are our books fun and engaging for a child, but what parent won’t keep them for years to come?

GIVEAWAY DETAILS:
One winner will receive two Picture It Picture Books, Imagining Me and My Alphabet, which allow room for your child to illustrate each story. (a $16 value)

Giveaway Dates: November 10- November 23, 2010

How To Enter:
Do one or more of the following and post a comment below about each action you took. Each comment will count as a separate entry so your chances of winning increase.

1. Follow Moms Wear Your Tees Blog in right margin w/ Google Friend Connect or subscribe to RSS feed
2. Like Picture It Picture Books on Facebook
3. Like the Moms Wear Your Tees Blog Facebook page in the top right margin
4. Tweet and leave URL: Enter to #win @pictureitco Children's Books where your child illustrates the story! #Giveaway http://www.momswearyourtees.blogspot.com @MWYT

Giveaway Rules:
GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. Winner selected through random.org- #66, RaettigFamily

Picture It did provide the books in the hopes that I would share my honest opinions. I received no monetary compensation and the opinions expressed are my own those of my children.

I recently discovered the author Mayra Calvani. She writes books for young children and middle-grade readers. I was lucky enough to receive one of Mayra Calvani's picture books to read my little bookworms.

I chose The Magic Violin for my kids because Sierra has expressed some interest in playing the violin and I thought it would be a good way to explore that further. Leo is also studying music in his pre-school class right now so I thought it would be great for him to read a story with a sting instrument in it.

This book reminded me of my experiences playing the violin when I was little and my relationship with my teacher. I really enjoyed reading it with my kids. I liked that the pictures and the words were very balanced so that there were enough pictures to interest my three year old and enough words to interest my 5 year old and I. For me, what I liked about it, is that it captured that sometimes things you want to do can be a lot of work and discouraging but a dose of self belief and practice can make them possible. And it did all that without being at all pedantic. In fact, there is a bit of magic and mystery mixed in for a very entertaining story that my kids really enjoyed. We also enjoyed the illustrations.

This book would make a great gift for a child in your life. You can purchase it at Amazon or you can enter for your chance to win it!

GIVEAWAY DETAILS: The winner will receive an autographed copy of The Magic Violin, by Mayra Calvani.

Giveaway Dates: September 23- October 5, 2010 Midnight CST

To Enter This Giveaway:
Do one or more of the following and post a comment below about each action you took. Each comment will count as a separate entry so your chances of winning increase but only the #1 entry is required.

1. Required: Visit Mayra's Secret Bookcase and tell the name of another book you might enjoy
2. Follow Moms Wear Your Tees Blog in right margin w/ Google Friend Connect or subscribe to RSS feed
3. Follow Mayra Calvani on Twitter
4. Tweet and leave URL:
Enter to #win an autographed copy of Mayra Calvani's The Secret Violin Children's Book #GIVEAWAY http://www.momswearyourtees.blogspot.com @MWYT @mcalvani

Giveaway Rules:
GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. Winner selected through random.org- #18, susan.

I did receive a copy of this book for review. I did not receive monetary compensation and the opinions expressed are my own.