Bloggy Giveaway

Jul23

I almost forgot.

Rock in My Dryer Shannon has another great idea. She’s suggesting that everyone who wants to participate give something away in a drawing at their blog. The announcements would take place on Monday, July 23rd, and the drawing, from the list of commenters, would be on Friday the 27th. Oh, go over and see Shannon’s guidelines for what she’s calling the Dog Days of Summer Bloggy Giveaway.


So, I’m giving away a copy of my book Picture Book Preschool. If you want to win a copy, just leave a comment. I’ll draw one name on Friday and send the winner a copy of the book.

You can order the curriculum book through Cafe Press for $12.99. The curriculum book consists of a weekly list of seven picture books that deal with a specific theme. Go here for an example of one week’s listing.

The book mainly consists of these lists, one for each week of the year. You should be able to find most of the picture books listed in Picture Book Preschool at your local library. If you can only find five out of the seven or six out of the seven for a given week, that should be enough to keep you busy. I have collected many of the picture books listed in Picture Book Preschool for my own children by browsing used bookstores. So when I read these books to Z-baby, I read some that we own and some that I get from the library.

As far as comparisons go, I am familiar with the curriculum Five in a Row, and I like it very much. In Five in a Row you are encouraged to read one picture book, such as Lentil by Robert McCloskey, for five days in a row. (Children generally love to read favorite picture books over and over again.) For each day of the week this curriculum gives lesson plans related to the books of the week covering science, mathematics, history and geography, and language arts. Five in a Row is a fully developed curriculum with loads of activities to keep your homeschooled preschooler or kindergartner busy and happy.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) for my preschooler, I am homeschooling six older children. I don’t have time to do all the activities in Five in a Row, and I like the variety of picture books we read with Picture Book Preschool. Picture Book Preschool introduces your child to the best of children’s picture books, and it takes only a few minutes each day to read the book for that day, talk about it, and see where it leads you. Maybe you’ll pretend to run away from home with Frances or stack caps like the peddler in Caps for Sale or make up a poem of your own after reading The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown. I suggest a few activities in Picture Book Preschool, but it’s left up to you and your child how far you want to go with each book and with the theme for each week.

If you are interested in purchasing a copy of the curriculum book, Picture Book Preschool click on the ad in the sidebar or on one of the links in this post. I think you’ll enjoy the extra guidance in picking out books for your preschooler or kindergartner and the low-pressure homeschool-friendly suggestions in the book. If you want to win a copy, just leave a comment and see if you’re the one. I’ll send the book anywhere in the world, but the picture books themselves may be more readily available in the U.S.

Not a requirement, but I just thought it would be fun if you left a comment telling us all what your favorite picture book is. What is your favorite? What is your child’s favorite (you know, the one you’ve read over and over until you have it memorized)?

Check out Shannon’s Dog Days of Summer Bloggy Giveaway for more contests and giveaways.

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  2. This is an awesome giveaway! My preschool class loves No David! by David Shannon. They like that they can “read” it to me!

    Please count me in!

  6. Well I don’t remember my favorite picture book, but I do remember this silly book of “scary” riddles that I would look at every time my dad and I went to the book store. He told me I’d have to save my allowance to buy it and it seemed to take forever. Once I got it, I knew all the riddles and was bored with it!

    I haven’t thought about that book in a long time!

  10. Enter me too, please!

    A perennial favorite around here is What Do You Say, Dear? (il. Sendak) We have many others, but I just read that one to my 4-year-old, who enjoyed it immensely, trying to guess what the polite thing is to say.

    Jeanne

  14. Not sure what our favorite read aloud book is. Maybe “Mr. Brown” by Dr. Seuss. Please enter me for the drawing.

  15. I love Our Animal Friends on Maple Hill Farm by Alice and Martin Provensen. Please put my name in the hat. Thanks!

  17. I’d love to have a copy of this for my daughter. We’re just starting to homeschool. Please count me in!

  23. I would love to be entered into your drawing!

    My favorite picture book of all time is Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. I loved it as a child and continue to love it today!

  25. Please count me in too! Our oldest daughter will be four this fall, and I want to start something simple with her. I thing my favorite book is One Morning in Maine–I LOVE it!!!!

  33. Our favorite book is Goodnight Moon.

    My 3 year old would love this selection, he is jealous that his older brother is starting kindergarten this fall, and he missed the birthday cutoff for Pre-K so this would be great to do at home!

  36. I’ve heard of this curriculum please count me in.

    My favorite picture book is Horton Hears a Who by Dr Seuss
    My Children’s favorite I couldn’t even say I read so many of them so many times I seem to have them all memorized…. He does seem to be in a Magic School Bus Phase right now we don’t own any but are going through all the ones at the Library.

  37. Thanks for the tips! Startin’ a little preschool homeschool experiment this fall that this will be perfect! Favorite picture bokk? Hmmm, that’s a hard one – I guess anything by Eric Carle would be a safe bet!

  38. Ooh, count me in! My son´s favorite book is one called “Trucks”, I can recite it in my sleep! As for me, I´m partial to Dr. Seuss in general, any of his books are great. 😀

  47. I’d love to win one of these books. Please enter me in your giveaway.

    My favorite picture book has to be “A Mother for Choco.”

    If you haven’t already, please stop by to enter my giveaway for a free pair of earrings!

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