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Scholastic Books Christmas Prize Pack Giveaway

November 26, 2010 by

Books, Books and more Books! Scholastic has released 2 great stories just in time for Christmas; It’s Christmas David and Captain Blue Sky.

It’s Christmas David
Christmas is coming, and Santa Claus is making his list. David is trying to be good, but when the house is filled with candy canes, Christmas cookies and beautifully wrapped gifts, it’s very hard to stay out of trouble! From wayward snowballs to the sleepless excitement of Christmas Eve, best-selling author David Shannon perfectly captures the joy and laughter of the holiday season.


Captain Sky Blue
Santa brings Jack his best toy pal, Captain Sky Blue, a pilot. Sky speaks in Pilot Talk (“Roger! Wilco!”). After a thunderstorm separates Sky and his buddy (“Mayday!”), Sky is abducted by a whale, then left alone to wander a frigid ocean floor until he chances upon a very special place, a place where he’s been before (“Now I’m spooled up!”). Captain Sky Blue thinks he has finally found an easy way home, but first he must help Santa out on Christmas Eve –a challenge that puts his pilot skills to the test! From Caldecott Medal Winner author Richard Egielski.

Books are a great gift for kids of any age; I try every year to get a book or two for the children in my family to keep the love going. Scholastic has always been a great service for getting great titles at great prices for all the kids in our family. Whether you’re ordering books from one of the many Scholastic Book Clubs, attending a local book fair or checking out the features in Parent and Child Magazine, Scholastic is determined to improve global literacy and build strong book lovers.

To celebrate the release of these books Scholastic wants to giveaway A HUGE SCHOLASTIC HOLIDAY PRIZE PACK which features the following books (Prize Pack Valued at $89.75)
• Captain Sky Blue
• It’s Christmas David
• Ook and Gluk
• Tony Baloney
• Odious Ogre
• I SPY Christmas

Visit Scholastic and tell me something you learned about the company, their community initiatives, resources for parents or anything else.

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Your entries must follow the rules or they won’t be eligible for prizes. This contest ends 11:59 pm, Monday, December 13, 2010. The winners will be emailed and will have 24 hours to claim their prize. This contest is open to US residents only. For complete rules please read our contest rules page.

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Holly and Hal Moose: Our Uplifting Christmas Adventure Giveaway

November 18, 2010 by

Watching holiday movies is one of our favorite family activities to get in the festive mood. We’ve been builing our DVD collection over the years and this year we are excited to learn about Holly and Hal Moose: Our Uplifting Christmas Adventure.

Borders is teaming with Build-A-Bear Workshop® for a holiday charity drive to benefit children in need. Now through Dec. 24, customers shopping at Borders stores nationwide will have the opportunity to donate books and stuffed animals, including Hal Moose®, a Build-A-Bear Workshop furry friend with soft brown fur and antlers. Hal Moose is the star of “Holly & Hal Moose™: Our Uplifting Christmas Adventure,” a book and DVD available at Borders. Each Borders store will deliver the books and stuffed toys to a local charity. In addition, Borders will kickoff the holiday charity drive by promising to donate $50,000 to First Book, which provides new books to children in need, addressing one of the most important factors affecting literacy — access to books.

LookWhatMomFound…and Dad too! readers are getting the chance to WIN their own Holly and Hall Moose: Our Uplifting Christmas Adventure DVD and Book set (approx $31 value). To win one of 5 set we have to giveaway just tell me your favorite holiday movie or book.

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Your entries must follow the rules or they won’t be eligible for prizes. This contest ends 11:59 pm, Thursday, December 9 , 2010. The winners will be emailed and will have 48 hours to claim their prize. This contest is open to US residents only. For complete rules please read our contest rules page.

This is a sponsored post but the opinions and descriptions presented belong solely to LookWhatMomFound…and Dad too! Your experiences and reactions may differ from ours.




UNO turns Pinkatastic

October 29, 2010 by

Pinkalicious is a work we are very aware of. Having a 3 year old girly girl in the house makes that possible. Pinkalicious is a book written about and for little girls who are obsessed with PINK, cupcakes, dress-up and princesses. Does that sound familiar? Shae is our Pinklicious-aholic.

For the holiday the Pinkalicious brand is offering tons of fun choices not only for the pink ones but for the entire family too.  Since we are a game playing family and UNO is one of our oldies but goodies Pinkalicious UNO is a great choice.

UNO turns Pinkatastic with this Pinkalicious version of the classic card game! 112 custom cards feature your favorite Pinkalicious characters and cupcakes. Same great UNO play PLUS the exclusive Pinkalicious card and rule. UNO has never been so pink!! Includes collectors tin.



This is going to be the perfect stocking stuffer for Shae that she can play with everyone. Shop at Barnes & Noble, Borders or Amazon for this and other fun Pinkalicious products.

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Shaun Thinks Money Grows On Trees

October 15, 2010 by

Today Shaun’s Scholastic book form came home from school and he asked if he could get some books. I told Shaun to circle what he wanted and I would look to see what we would get if anything at all. Shaun went into the kitchen and came out a little while later saying he needed $12 for Snow Science (you make your own snow flakes) and then another book that I can’t remember.

Shaun then asked me what Harry Potter books Sabreena had because he saw them in his Scholastic magazine. Not sure why he is asking because he is not able to read those books yet. He must have asked Sabreena because he came back downstairs a few minutes later went into the kitchen and then came out an said “Dad, I need $35 so I can get Snow Science, Scooby Doo and Harry Potter”. Melinda and I laughed immediately. His book order went from $12 to $35 in an instant. This boy must think money grows on trees!!




Autographed Anne Geddes-Beginnings Book Giveaway

October 11, 2010 by

Today is 10/10/10. Today is also the long awaited release date of Anne Geddes’ 8th publication, Beginnings. In her new book Anne Geddes presents the simple and elegant elements of nature and new life. Beginnings is no different from her other photography books; pure bliss. Anne Geddes reveals a range of images that are, in her own words, among the most personally rewarding she has ever created.

As you all should know by now I’m in love with the magnificent work of Anne Geddes; this includes her books, calendars, stationery and journals; even her children’s clothing lines are adorable. My Pure book has been a keepsake for 7 years now, it’s a book that reminds me of the wonders of being pregnant and holding a tiny baby in my arms. Beginnings is exactly the same; each photo is perfect, sometimes more perfect than the one before.

With threat of a hiatus in her future Geddes stumbled onto an exhibit of birds’ nest and was inspired to create Beginnings. The process took 12 months of photographing the simplest elements of nature and newborn life. A combined 140 images of new subjects as well as some returning faces comes together to form this new masterpiece.

Maneesha was photographed holding a preemie infant girl; 17 years prior she was a preemie being photographer herself.

A perfect gift for any woman, enter to win an AUTOGRAPHED copy of Beginnings. Visit AnneGeddes.com, review the Beginnings pages and tell me one of your favorite new images.

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To receive these extra opportunities for entries, you must fulfill the first REQUIRED entry above and please be sure your email in your comment or have it attached to you blogger dashboard. I will not search through About Me/Contact Me links.  Please note the changes to the entries or frequency, entries that don’t follow rules will be disregarded/ignored/deleted.

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Your entries must follow the rules or they won’t be eligible for prizes. This contest ends 11:59 pm, Sunday, October 31, 2010. The winners will be emailed and will have 48 hours to claim their prize. This contest is open to US residents only. For complete rules please read our contest rules page.

This is a sponsored post but the opinions and descriptions presented belong solely to LookWhatMomFound…and Dad too! Your experiences and reactions may differ from ours.  



Borders Rewards Memberships & Kobo Giveaway

October 2, 2010 by

Borders is more than books. We shop there for Melissa and Doug toys, journals, ebooks, Seattle’s Best coffee and more. An in order to get the biggest bang for our buck we use our Border’s Rewards  Plus Membership. For just $20 a year we enjoy lots of great and useful benefits:

  • 40 percent off the list price of hardcover bestsellers
  • 20 percent off the list price of select hardcovers
  • 10 percent off the purchase price of most everything else
  • Free shipping on all Borders.com orders

If you don’t want to spend the extra money Border’s also offers a free rewards program which entitles members to 30% off list price of Hardcovers and FREE Shipping on online orders of $25 or more.

The holidays are quickly approaching and you can easily cross off almost everyone on your list; a DVD for dad, stationery for the teens and educational toys for the little ones. Don’t forget to pick up a steaming hot cup of Seattle’s Best Coffee while browsing the aisles. Borders also carries one of the most popular eReaders on the market; the Kobo. Priced at $129.99, lightweight and compact, the Kobo also comes preloaded with 100 classic books such as The Scarlet Letter and Pride and Prejudice.

LookWhatMomFound…and Dad too! has 5 Border’s Rewards Plus Memberships and 1 Kobo Wireless EReader. Please visit Borders and tell me a book, movie or gift you would purchase. There will be 5 winners total, 4 Rewards Plus winners plus a Kobo and Rewards Membership winner.

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To receive these extra opportunities for entries, you must fulfill the first REQUIRED entry above and please be sure your email in your comment, attached to you blogger dashboard or easily seen on your website/blog. I will not search through About Me/Contact Me links.

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  • Like LookWhatMomFound…and Dad too! and Borders on Facebook AND leave a message about this giveaway including link

Your entries must follow the rules or they won’t be eligible for prizes. This contest ends 11:59 pm, Saturday, October 30, 2010. The winners will be emailed and will have 48 hours to claim their prize. This contest is open to US residents only. For complete rules please read our contest rules page.

This is a sponsored post but the opinions and descriptions presented belong solely to LookWhatMomFound…and Dad too! Your experiences and reactions may differ from ours.



Back to School Kobo eReader Giveaway-CLOSED

August 18, 2010 by

Do you like to read books but hate to go to the library or bookstore to get them? I am not a huge reader but I try to read a book every month but my biggest problem is I am too lazy to go anywhere to get a book. So when I got the opportunity to review the Kobo eReader I was ecstatic because that meant I would no longer need to venture out for my books.

The Kobo is the newest eReader from Borders which has some pretty cool features. The first thing that I thought was pretty cool was that the Kobo comes preloaded with 100 classic eBooks like A Tale of Two Cities, The Art of War, Dracula and 97 other titles. So right out of the box you can begin reading with zero effort. If those 100 books do not interest you all you need to do is plug in your Kobo using the provided USB cable or sync up via your Bluetooth with select smartphones to your Borders library.

The Kobo also allows you to jump around from book to book and chapter to chapter just like you would if you had a printed book in your hands. I also like the weight, size and the quilted back which gives you a real book feel. Since the Kobo supports PDF files you will be able to view images in graphic novels and other illustrated texts.

For those of you tech people out their here are some additional tech specs for the Kobo:

– Measures approximately 4.7 x 7.2 x 0.4 inches, and weighs less than 8 ounces.
– Logically planned 4-way D-pad and center select navigation lets you move between screens with ease.
– 1 GB Memory allows you to carry over 1,000 titles, add an SD card for additional storage space.
– Battery charge lasts up to 2 weeks.
– Supports ePub, PDF and Adobe DRM file formats.

This is my first eReader so I do not have anything to compare it to but for me the price is right at $149.99. I like how when you have the Kobo turned off the cover image of the current book you are reading is displayed just like you would see if you closed a printed book. I do have to be honest that at first this feature made me think that I did not have the Kobo turned off properly. Also, I did have trouble figuring out how to move from book to book but after a little playing I did get it figured out. For me it took a total of 15-20 minutes to figure out and that is probably long. I would assume if you have used an eReader before your learning curve would be a lot less then mine. I was disappointed to see that the Kobo did not have a WIFI feature but as I mentioned above you are able to sync up to your library via Bluetooth using select smartphones. I have a Blackberry which is a supported device for the Kobo but I still have not tested this feature out yet.

All in all the Kobo eReader is an awesome device that I would recommend to friends and family and is perfect for anyone who loves to read but hates the hassle of buying, borrowing and returning books. The Kobo will make your reading experience easier and more pleasurable.

Would that student in your life benefit from the simplicity of a Kobo eReader? Win 1 here at LookWhatMomFound…and Dad too!  Visit the Border’s e-book store and tell me a title you would download for yourself.

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To receive these extra opportunities for entries, you must fulfill the first REQUIRED entry above and please be sure your email in your comment, attached to you blogger dashboard or easily seen on your website/blog. I will not search through About Me/Contact Me links.

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Your entries must follow the rules or they won’t be eligible for prizes. This contest ends 11:59 pm, Friday,  September 17, 2010. The winners will be emailed and will have 48 hours to claim their prize. This contest is open to US residents only. For complete rules please read our contest rules page.

This is a sponsored post but the opinions and descriptions presented belong solely to LookWhatMomFound…and Dad too! Your experiences and reactions may differ from ours.




Kohl’s Cares for Kids Disney Winnie the Pooh Giveaway-CLOSED

July 27, 2010 by

Kohl’s Cares for Kids is back with a new collection every kid will love; Winnie the Pooh books and plush.

Kohl’s sells kid friendly merchandise to help kids in your communities, with 100 percent of the net profit going to kids’ health and education initiatives. Since 2000, more than $150 million has been raised nationwide.
Kohl’s Cares® earmarks net profits for initiatives such as injury prevention, immunizations and education programs for diabetes, asthma and childhood obesity, among others. The program was created as a commitment to the communities we serve. Every day, Kohl’s directs time, effort and funding toward children’s health and education. In fact, 100% of the net profits from the sale of Kohl’s Cares for Kids® merchandise will be donated to support children’s health and education initiatives nationwide.

We’ve purchased many different collections over the years for our children to enjoy. Currently the Sandra Boyton plush and books adorn Shae’s room and Shaun has the Dr. Seuss books on his bookshelves. For just $5 each you can really stock up on great additions to your child’s reading collection or use them as gifts for other children in your life.

Kohls wants to give a LookWhatMomFound…and Dad too! reader a set of 4 books and 1 plush from the Winnie the Pooh collection plus the Deceptively Delicious cookbook available right now in stores, only $5 each. Visit Kohl’s Care and tell me something specific about the initiatives they are working on.
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Your entries must follow the rules or they won’t be eligible for prizes. This contest ends 11:59 pm, Tuesday,  August 17, 2010. The winners will be emailed and will have 48 hours to claim their prize. This contest is open to US residents only. For complete rules please read our contest rules page.

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Border’s Double Dog Dare Summer Reading Tip #2

June 15, 2010 by

Summer is in full swing for lots of students. Border’s is encouraging kids to keep up the reading with a sweet little bribe. Read 10 books and get a free one.

  • Read 10 books-any ones you like
  • Download and print or visit local Border’s location for Double Dog Dare form
  • List the books you’ve read
  • Redeem the complete form at any Border’s store by 8/26/10 for a free preselected book

Borders is offering great tips this summer to keep your kids reading and able to cash in on the great free book offer.

“Encourage your children to read books about people and who are different from them. In fact, Katherine Paterson, recently named National Ambassador for Children’s Literature by the Library Of Congress and author of many award-winning books for children, including Bridge to Terabithia says, “I began reading on my own very early because I knew the magic that books held, and when I came to the United States and was regarded as alien by my classmates, books provided me with friends who helped me to understand myself and to have compassion for other people. So I urge everyone to read for your life–for enjoyment and knowledge and as a member of a family and a citizen not only of your community but of the world.”

If you have a tween boy who loves Diary of a Wimpy Kid try introducing him to Pippi Longstocking. It may be a story about a girl but it’s full of adventure and wild antics and feisty characters.
A simple change of characters and stories may be all your kids need to spark a renewed love of reading this summer. Right now buy 2 selected Junie B. Jones books and get 1 free.

Don’t forget to enter to win 1 of 2 $100 Border’s Gift Cards to indulge in great books, new music, e-book downloads and more.

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