Saturday, August 9, 2008

BOOK BLAST GIVE-AWAY!

If you know of a deserving library, school, community or family that could truly benefit from fifteen donated books, please help us spread the word. We've estimated the books are valued at $250!



I.N.K.’s Spectacular Fifteen Book Blast Give-away.

It's a nonfiction give-away contest of gigantic proportions!

To support the children's nonfiction community, our fifteen published authors have each agreed to DONATE A SIGNED COPY OF ONE OF THEIR BOOKS. That's FIFTEEN books all to ONE LUCKY WINNER.

Fabulous Books in our give-away by our wonderful I.N.K. bloggers include:

Jennifer Armstrong's title of the winner’s choice
Don Brown's title of the winner’s choice
Vicki Cobb's WE DARE YOU! HUNDRED’S OF SCIENCE BETS, CHALLENGES, AND EXPERIMENTS YOU CAN DO AT HOME (Skyhorse Publishing, 2008)
Sneed Collard's title of the winner’s choice
Susan E. Goodman's SEE HOW THEY RUN.CAMPAIGN DREAMS, ELECTION SCHEMES, AND THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE (Bloomsbury, 2008)
Jan Greenberg’s SIDE BY SIDE: NEW POEMS INSPIRED BY ART FROM AROUND THE WORLD (Abrams, 2008)
Steve Jenkins’s SISTERS AND BROTHERS:SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS IN THE ANIMAL WORLD (written with Robin Page)(Houghton Mifflin, 2008)
Kathleen Krull's THE ROAD TO OZ. TWISTS,TURNS, BUMPS, AND TRIUMPHS IN THE LIFE OF L. FRANK BAUM. (Knopf, 2008) or any other title of the winner's choice
Loreen Leedy's MISSING MATH. A NUMBER MYSTERY (Marshall Cavendish, 2008)
Sue Macy's SWIFTER, HIGHER, STRONGER. A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE SUMMER OLYMPICS (National Geographic, 2008 Edition)
April Pulley Sayre's TROUT ARE MADE OF TREES (Charlesbridge, 2008)
David Schwartz's WHERE IN THE WILD? CAMOUFLAGED CREATURES CONCEALED. . . AND REVEALED (Tricycle Press, 2007)
Tanya Lee Stone's ELIZABETH LEADS THE WAY. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON AND THE RIGHT TO VOTE (Henry Holt, 2008)
Gretchen Woelfle's JEANNETTE RANKIN. POLITICAL PIONEER (Calkins Creek, 2007)
Karen Romano Young's ACROSS THE WIDE OCEAN. THE WHY, HOW, AND WHERE OF NAVIGATION FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS AT SEA. (Harpercollins, 2007)

We'd love to hear from teachers, librarians, homeschoolers, writers, or anyone else from across the country who is promoting nonfiction.

Here are the rules. Each entry must consist of two parts:

1. In one sentence or less, tell us why you read the I.N.K. blog.

2. In as much space as you need, describe what you've done to support and encourage nonfiction in your classroom, library, home, or community. Photos are a plus.

We will select the winner based on the strongest, most original and all encompassing approach to getting nonfiction noticed.

All entries should be submitted by email to: interestingnonfictionforkids at gmail dot com. We will send you an email letting you know we’ve received your entry.

Entering the contest implies your consent to use the contents of your entry on our blog for promotional purposes.

The deadline to enter is Friday, September 5th. The winner will be announced on the I.N.K. blog.

Good Luck to everyone!

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a wonderful idea, and a great way to stock up the library for a new school year. Many, many thanks to the I.N.K.lings! I'll post a link on my blog to spread the word, but before I do, since I'm in Canada and some of my readers are too, I just want to doublecheck if the contest is for those living in the U.S. only?

Becky at Farm School

Linda Salzman said...

Thanks, Becky. We are definitely open to all international entries.

We've got to spread the nonfiction love as far as it can go, eh.

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Linda, and Happy (honourary) Canada Day!

I'll spread the word after today's festivities...

Becky

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Erica G said...

I read the blog to find out about good books for my kids. In my house, I encourage my children to read non-fiction by making sure that they check out at least one non-fiction book from the library each time we go. I love giving books to my nieces and nephews for Christmas and like to give non-fiction because I know they don't get too many of those.

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Tonysopranogirl said...

I visited the blog to check out the nonfiction books available for my 8 and six year old children. We visit the library at least once a week. My children are encouraged to read nonfiction as well as fiction!

vgreene44 said...

I am a public school teacher and I am always looking for fun and motivating activities and books. Even though I'm a math teacher I still maintain a library in my classroom. I share my love of literature by reading to them, having them read silently and having them read to me. I know that books take students to a place that they might not ever get to go.

Linda Salzman said...

To the three comments above--If you meant to make an entry to the contest, you need to enter via email ONLY by sending your entry to interestingnonfictionforkids@gmail.com

All entries will then receive a reply email.

Thanks!