Give-Aways

Winter Wonderland Books Give Away!

January 15, 2011 /

EDIT: The Giveaway is now closed. The winner will be announced soon. Check back soon for the winner. Good luck one and all 🙂

Here is an email we got a couple days ago from one of our readers:

Hello,
I have been following your home school curriculum and have bought the books for them from an online store that sells used books. Well I had bought several books (I can Let you know which ones) and they got lost in the mail. The store very kindly replaced them but a couple of days ago (and about 6 weeks late) a very batter box showed up with the original books still in fine shape. I contacted the company and they said there was no need to send them back and if I don’t have any use for them I should donate them. If you would like to give them away on your blog I can send them to you (or directly to the winner). I understand if you are not interested I just thought I would ask.

Thank you for everything!
~Sarah

My response was basically OMG… how awesome! Yes, we’d love to help you donate your books to one of our readers! So, she sent the list…

How Do you know it’s winter?
Hibernation
Animals in Winter
Gregory’s Shadow
what Makes a shadow?
The mitten
under the snow
Grady the goose
What is Migration?
Valentine Bears
Grizzly bear family book
Snow Dogs! Racers of the north
Owl Moon
Where are the night animals?
St.Patrick’s day in the Morning.

She wanted to make sure that everyone was aware that the books are used but they are still in great shape. She bought them from betterworldbooks.com

So there you have it. Sarah is donating 15 books to one lucky WFA reader. Even if you are not doing the Winter Wonderland Unit, how cool would it be to receive ALL these books, and all the better that the have been previously loved 🙂

For your chance to win, simply leave a comment here telling us who you would be sharing the books with.

A winner will be drawn at random on Monday, January 17 at 9:00 p.m. EST. Then Sarah will have the books off to you “toot sweet”!

BTW… Sarah is sharing these books out of the goodness of her heart. She is also paying the shipping for the books to be sent to the winner. She never mentioned it, but I happen to know Sarah is the owner of the Etsy shop Nothing But Soap. I buy soap from her for myself and for gift giving. As a way of saying Thank You to her for her generosity, do yourself a favor and pay her shop a visit!

Thank you Sarah, and good luck to everyone!

 

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157 Comments

  • Heather Ellis

    January 15, 2011 at 7:39 am

    I would love to share these books with my children! We use yoru curriculum for all of our children, even the older 1st graders, as it inspires such wonder and amazement eve in older children.

  • Catherine O'Sullivan

    January 15, 2011 at 7:41 am

    I am a homeschooling mom of two very inquisitive little boys (ages 3 and 5), so I wold be sharing the books with them. Fingers crossed; I never win anything (so much for “the luck of the Irish”)!

  • Amanda

    January 15, 2011 at 7:56 am

    What a wonderful giveaway! My 19 month old daughter adores books and my husband and I are always looking for more! We would be so happy to receive these. Thank you so much!

  • Eugenia

    January 15, 2011 at 8:19 am

    Ohhh my GOD!!!
    I Would share all these books with mi 2 little girls and also with my friend who has a waldorf oriented kindergarten.
    I am from Argentina, and if is needed to pay the shipping I will DO IT!!! ( Because I understand It should be more expensive than a local shipping…)
    Thanks for everithng you share with us!!!!!
    Eugenia

  • Janna

    January 15, 2011 at 8:28 am

    What a wonderfully generous give-away! And I love Better World Books–I have been very impressed with stuff I’ve gotten there (for 1/3 of the price it would have been new). My new books end up looking like “used” within a few days anyway! ;o) Thanks for sharing Sarah!

  • Sally stanley

    January 15, 2011 at 8:29 am

    This is the most wonderful thing she could do!!!! How generous and thoughtful!!! I would love to share these wonderful winter topics with my grandchildren and great niece! How wonderful!!!

  • lizabeth

    January 15, 2011 at 8:29 am

    what an awesome lady! how kind of her to share these books with your readers/fans. i have been wanting to collect a library of books for each season to share with my daughter. these would be perfect!

  • Sarah

    January 15, 2011 at 8:45 am

    I am an avid follower of your site and am a lead teacher in a 2’s & 3’s preschool classroom. I know that I could create many cross-curricular learning opportunities for them to enjoy. My two kids would also benefit from new books.
    What a super generous lady!

  • mel

    January 15, 2011 at 8:45 am

    What a sweet thing to do!

    My kids and I are following your winter curriculum so I would share the books with them. Our library is tiny and doesn’t have most of the books on your list, so I’m trying to improvise with what I have already and can find there.

  • Janelle

    January 15, 2011 at 8:51 am

    Thank you for this opportunity! I would share the books with my 2 boys and our small homeschool group of 8. We are using the Winter Wonderland curriculum.

  • Jackie

    January 15, 2011 at 8:59 am

    What a nice “pay it forward” kind of story! My family and I read through the books on your fall list (especially loved “Rusty, Trusty Tractor”). We would love to add to our winter library. These books would be loved by my kindergartener who is a new reader and my second grade class. Oh, and loved the etsy shop…thanks for the heads up on that!

  • Anissa

    January 15, 2011 at 9:00 am

    I have two wee ones who LOVE to read! We would give these books a good lovin’ and pass them on to other precious wee book lovers 🙂

  • Marlo

    January 15, 2011 at 9:01 am

    Oh wow, this would be amazing. I have done most of the Harvest curriculum with my daughters and we are just beginning the Winter one. This would be a great blessing. And maybe I would pass a few on to a friend who is just beginning the journey of delightful book swith her son. I’ll have to check out the soap; I have been thinking about soap for days!

  • Tanya

    January 15, 2011 at 9:32 am

    Wow…what a generous giveaway! I am using the Winter Wonderland curriculum with my 2 and 5 year olds and we are *loving* it. We currently use the library as our main source for books but would love to own copies of them so we can enjoy them again and again. Thank you Sarah for being so generous :o)

  • Pasuhi

    January 15, 2011 at 9:35 am

    How much my grand-daughter Mei-Ling would love these books. She has heterotaxy polyspleenia and has a vesicostomy, her conditions keep her limited energy wise and she is a real book-aholic as we call her. She is 3 and loves being read to. My daughter and her husband are on a very limited income plus, Mei-Lings surgeries, all 8 of them, has mounted up a lot of bills for them so money for books is not abundant.
    If you go to my blog http://morningramble.blogspot.com/ and do a search for Mei-Ling surgeries or prayer for Mei-Ling you will see some of what she has been through. We help in as many ways as we can. Imagination is a powerful tool when you have so many painful events in your life and good books open a whole new world to children and sometimes, Mei-Ling just needs an escape from all that is happening and there are several more surgeries to come.

  • Suzie

    January 15, 2011 at 9:49 am

    My sister in law and I would love for our kids to go to a Waldorf school, but unfortunately the nearest one is about a 45 minute drive from where we live. To compensate, we’ve been trading books and blogs to help supplement our kids’ lives with nurturing activities and fairy tales. These books would be a great addition to our library, and the other mothers in our play group would find them very useful as well!

  • Dulcie Belanger

    January 15, 2011 at 10:32 am

    We are using this curriculum with my preschool. Some of the books I have been able to borrow from the library but it would be wonderful to have our own for the future classes. Thanks for sharing!

  • Robyn

    January 15, 2011 at 10:37 am

    I have four girls. I know they would all be excited to find a box full of books on the front porch. My two youngest (6 and 3)have beat up our copy of The Mitten, we could totally use a new one.

  • Kara H.

    January 15, 2011 at 10:44 am

    What a fantastic giveaway and so sweet of Sarah! I would love to have these books for my 4 yr old son and 3 yr old daughter.

  • Michelle b

    January 15, 2011 at 11:05 am

    What a wonderfully kind person!! I checked out her page and her soap is SO beautiful!! (and very affordable!) I plan on purchasing from her in the future:) Oh, thanks for the book link. Sounds like they have great customer service!! I’d share them with my son and his two cousins!!

  • Angela

    January 15, 2011 at 11:53 am

    Oh wow, how nice of Sarah!!! Thank you!
    I know 2 certain little boys that would love it I’d share these books with them :o)

  • Hallie

    January 15, 2011 at 11:58 am

    Oh what awonderful giveaway!! These would be great with what we are studying now!! Lots of reading about winter lifestyles of animals, artic life and it’s all leading up to the Iditarod!! 🙂 Thanks for the chance to win them!!

  • Stephanie K

    January 15, 2011 at 12:30 pm

    Wow!!! That is so kind of Sarah!

    I would be sharing the books with my 4 and 2 year old daughters. We’re following the Winter Wonderland curriculum for homeschool with my 4 year old 🙂

  • Sarah

    January 15, 2011 at 1:32 pm

    Wow! My 4- and 7-year-old children just love all the great stuff we do with your curricula. I am quite certain they would adore a whole box of books that are just theirs. They’re always sad to take these books back to the library so someone else can have a turn. What a generous and thoughtful thing to do!

  • Asiyah

    January 15, 2011 at 8:38 am

    I would love to win those books. Although I don’t homeschool, we are voracious readers and these would be a nice addition to our library. Thanks for the opportunity to win!

    Now…off to visit Nothing But Soap!

  • Denna

    January 15, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    Wow, thank you Sarah for your generosity! My almost 2 year old girl LOVES books and I love having seasonal collections. We are just starting and this would be a nice center for our winter bookshelf.

  • Heidi Pelletier

    January 15, 2011 at 8:56 am

    Thank you Sarah! I run a small Nature Daycare.. 6 little ones each day under 4.. needless to say our books get used and “loved” very much…the children would be most appreciative if they were surprised with something new! OUr program is very much geared toward the seasons so a collecton of winter books would be perfect!
    Cangrats to whomever you choose!
    Heidi

  • Sophie

    January 15, 2011 at 2:05 pm

    Wow what a generous gift for some lucky family! This is an amazing list of books. My husband and I would be sharing them with our toddler son and our soon-to-be-born baby. I was born in the middle of a blizzard, and have always loved winter and snow and ice and cold weather. I hope to pass this love along to my children. Thank you Sarah for sharing such joy!