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The Secret Mountain Books

Our latest Team Mom product to evaluate was a super hit in this house – Secret Mountain Books. I had never heard of these before but was immediately impressed with the illustrations.  I was in love from the beginning.  Thanks to Team Mom we received:

  • Dream Songs Night Songs
  • A Duck in New York City  from Belgium to Brazil
  • Down at the Sea Hotel

These books were sitting on the dining room table waiting my further evaulation when Cameron found them and I no longer was allowed to touch them.  She immediately claimed these books as her own and went and curled up in her room and started reading them. It wasn’t long before she came back and wanted to know about the CD in the back of the book.  We opened them up and she fell in love with the songs on each CD.

I was so impressed with these books that last week during National Teen Readers Week, I sent some of my teenage students to the elementary school to read these books and share the CDs with some of the young students.  They all came back talking about how much the kids enjoyed them.  In fact, I have decided to donate them to our elementary library since they were loved so much.

As Promised…

Cameron’s interview went great didn’t it? Want to know more about this cute little monster we call Trockle? Check out the other stops on the party tour, Trockle‘s blog, or Holly‘s blog.

The Party Stops: 

October 5:
 Joyce Anthony @ Books and Authors
http://joyceanthony.tripod.com/blog/

October 6:
 Joyce Anthony @ Books and Authors
http://joyceanthony.tripod.com/blog/

October 7:
 Janet @ Janet’s Book Nook
http://www.sheneedstoknow.com/booknook

October 9:
 Jen (Pantheistic Mom) @ My Terrene Reality

http://terrenereality.blogspot.com

October 10:
Elysabeth Eldering @ the Junior Geography Detective Squad
http://jgdsseries.blogspot.com/

October 11:
Ron Berry @ The Surreal Writer
http://unwriter1.wordpress.com/

October 12:
Lynne Thompson @ La Vida Es Un Sueno
http://suenogrande.blogspot.com/

October 13:
Wrap-up by Holly Jahangiri and Jordan M. Vinyard
http://blog.jahangiri.us

 
As promised we have a great prize for this party!!!
Grand Prize: A customized Halloween short story featuring your child (or grandchild, niece, nephew, or friend) with Trockle – written by Holly Jahangiri and illustrated by Jordan Vinyard.

Second Prize: A $20 gift certificate to Amazon.com.

To enter, complete the following steps:

(1) Purchase a copy of Trockle directly from 4RV Publishing (http://www.4rvpublishingllc.com/Store) between 12:00 AM October 5 and 11:59 PM October 13, and

(2) Send an email to president@4rvpublishingllc.com with your answer to the question posted at http://jahangiri.us/trockle-promo.html.

You may enter as often as you like, but all completed entries must be received before midnight on October 13!

Winners will be announced at http://blog.jahangiri.us and at http://www.4rvpublishingllc.com.

The winners will be chosen randomly from all correctly completed entries (see “To enter” above) and winners will be notified by email. IMPORTANT NOTE: The Grand Prize winner will need to work directly with the author and illustrator to create a memorable gift for that special child. To include the child’s likeness in the illustration, you will need to provide a digital photo upon notification that you have won. Every effort will be made to deliver the prize prior to Halloween, but circumstances beyond our control may prevent that and we do not guarantee that it will arrive by October 31.

Shhh!!! Don’t Tell!!!

We were just getting ready to party when the Gremlins arrived.  All day today we’ve fought back and forth and bach and forth…..I thought they were going to succeed and ruin our party.  I even had to pull Cameron and Stephen in the fight (shh!!  Don’t tell his mom that I got him out of school!!!).  But alas, we have prevailed and the party is about to start!!!!  Stay tuned!!  Cameron is leading up this party, and she has some great things to share.

Party, Party….Did someone say a Party?

Before heading to bed tonight, I wanted to take the time to remind you that we will be having a P-A-R-T-Y tomorrow!!  I’ve got the brussel sprouts, carrots, and Choco Tacos ready and a couple very special guests that I know everyone will enjoy spending time with.  And guess what else?  We have a great door prize at this party - A customized Halloween short story featuring your child (or grandchild, niece, nephew, or friend).  I think I’m going to even put my name in the hat for this most awesome prize….Is that rude? To try to win the prize when the party’s at my house?  I sure hope not!

Be sure to come by tomorrow and join in the fun!  It’s going to be a great party I’m sure! 

Another Girl Club

Today thanks to a link at MomDot, I’ve found another great series for girls that involves books, a club, and goodies – The CupCakes Club.  We haven’t read a book yet, but Cameron is exploring the website right now and totally involved in it.  I’m going to try to get her a book as soon as possible so we can see if this is something she’d continue to read.  I’ve also entered a contest to win a CupCakes Girls necklace over at MomDot and wanted to share not only this club, but the contest with you.