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Cheerios Spoonfuls of Stories Giveaway!

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One of the things we do every day is read.  I tell my girls that as long as they have great reading skills they can do anything in life.  To learn how to do anything all they need is the ability to read and comprehend what they have read.  Everything I do I am self taught it.

I learn by reading and doing and I hope this is setting a good example for my girls.

Cheerios® is inviting families to start the day with a nutritious breakfast and a new book.  To help grow kids’ love of reading at a young age Cheerios will provide more than six million books for children free inside specially marked boxes of Cheerios. They call it the Spoonfuls of Stories® program.

I had no idea that Cheerios has distributed almost 50 million children’s books over the past nine years in packs of Cheerios!  That’s awesome!

This year’s free books are age appropriate for children 3-8yrs old. They are writte in English and Spanish.  The titles are listed below.

  • All the World, by Liz Garton Scanlon and illustrated by Marla Frazee, which discusses the many wonderful things a child can encounter in the world as well as the commonalities all the world shares.
  • Chaucer’s First Winter, by Stephen Krensky and illustrated by Henry Cole, follows a bear named Chaucer, who knows he is supposed to sleep through the winter but feels it’s much more fun to stay up and play.
  • Jump!, by Scott M. Fischer, chronicles the adventures of a bug, a frog, a cat, a hound, a crocodile, a shark, and a whale, who all love to jump!
  • No T. Rex in the Library, by Toni Buzzeo and illustrated by Sachiko Yoshikawa, is a story about a little girl named Tess and her adventures in the library with a boisterous T-Rex.
  • The Purple Kangaroo, by comedian Michael Ian Black and illustrated by Peter Brown, which is a vivid and humor-filled story that tricks the reader into thinking about a purple kangaroo.

In a recent study it was revealed that in low-income neighborhoods there is only about one age-appropriate book for every 300 children. That is insane.  1 for every 300?  This is so sad!  When kids are young that is the time to establish the love for books.  Cheerios wants to help fight this and to do so they are making a $300,000 financial donation to First Book, an award-winning national nonprofit that helps get books into the hands of children in need. Cheerios has donated more than $3.5 million to First Book over the past nine years.

To learn more about the Spoonfuls of Stories program or to donate to First Book visit www.spoonfulsofstories.com.
The Giveaway

One Not So Average Mama reader will win a $25 gift card to Barnes & Noble, all five of the new in-pack titles and a box of Cheerios.

Main Entry:  Subscribe to Not So Average Mama if you haven’t already (located in the sidebar) then check out the Spoonfuls of Stories® program and tell me in a comment below something that you learned by visiting.

Bonus Entries:  You must complete the main entry before doing any of the bonus entries.  Leave a separate comment for each entry.

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This giveaway will end on Dec 23rd, 2010!

I received a $25 gift card to Barnes & Noble, all five of the new in-pack titles and a box of Cheerios from MyBlogSpark to facilitate this review.  No compensation was received and all opinions are my own.

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Brandy is the wife to a carpenter/musician and the mother of 3 amazingly awesome homeschool/unschooled girls. Brandy is a Photographer as well as a Coach for the Weebellion as part of Rolling Rebellion Jr. Roller Derby. Brandy is passionate about many things and suffers from a very painful and degenerative neurological disease called CRPS/RSD.
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Comments

  1. Tabathia B says

    subscriber and learned that in a recent study shows that for many kids, just having a book to read is the biggest obstacle to learning
    tbarrettno1 at gmail dot com

  9. Mami2jcn says

    I subscribe to your emails. I learned Cheerios has given away over 50 million books on package, and donated more than $3.5 million to First Book.

  23. Kim says

    I subscribe and I learned–According to studies, the more types of reading materials there are in the home, the higher students are in reading proficiency.

  27. Jessie C. says

    I’m a subscriber. I learned that Cheerios has given away over 50 million books on package, and donated more than $3.5 million to First Book
    tcarolinep at gmail dot com

  45. Mari says

    I am a subscriber. I learned Cheerios has given away over 50 million books on package, and donated more than $3.5 million to First Book.

  48. Tamara B. says

    I learned that it is celebrating their 9th Year of the Spoonfuls of Stories Program
    tamben7996(at)aol(dot)com

  57. Rachel Benson says

    I subscribe to Not So Average Mama and learned that Laurie Isop was the 2009 Grand Prize winner.

  75. SLS says

    email subscriber
    I learned that for some kids just having a book to read is a big obstacles to learning.

    atlmuzikfanzinc at gmail dot com

  108. Cori Westphal says

    I learned that if your child is reading independently, you should choose a book with a straightforward story that has familiar, everyday words.

    Sounds like a plan to me!

    coriwestphal at msn dot com

  125. Annmarie W. says

    I see that Laurie Isop was the 2009 Grand Prize winner of the Cheerios® New Author Contest! She won the top prize for her story, “How Do You Hug a Porcupine?”

  132. CherylS22 says

    E-mail subscriber
    I learned that Cheerios “created the Cheerios® Spoonfuls of Stories® program to help get books into kids hands’ and encourage parents and kids to read together.”

    Thanks for the giveaway……..
    Happy Holidays!

  142. Lisa L says

    I learned Cheerios fans on Facebook pledged the goal of 6 million minutes which generated the donation of 250,000 new books to children in need.