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A Bookaholic, Pro-life, Conservative, Catholic, with Asperger's, who reads a lot. These are the ramblings of the books I read or read aloud to my energetic Autistic 11yo. I love reading almost any book from classics to mysteries to fantasy to ARCs. I sometimes go through stages of "genre love", get addicted to manga and graphic novels or get caught up in reading ARCs, but you'll find I read a wide variety of books, both fiction and non-fiction. I tend to post a lot of reviews of juvenile/teen books but I still do a lot of adult reviews as well. I read well over 200 books a year, but haven't made it to 300 yet!

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Friday, February 12, 2010

Contest: Flute's Journey, The Life of a Wood Thrush

This time I'm giving away a gorgeous hardcover picture book, Flute's Journey: The Life of a Wood Thrush written and illustrated by Lynne Cherry. This is a slightly used copy, we bought it new and read it once.
This is the type of picture book with gorgeous paintings and quite verbose making it suitable for all ages, up to perhaps 11. Click the picture to take a look inside. You can read my review here.

Contest will run until Feb. 26, with the winner randomly chosen and announced on Feb. 27. This contest is open to US and Canada only. Sorry, but International postage is too expensive for me.

To enter:

Please try to leave all your responses in one comment.

1) You must be a follower (over in the right bar) and let me know you are in your comment.

2) Leave your email address (if it is not already in your profile.)

3) +2 Tweet and +2 blog (no sidebars) about this contest and leave me the link.

4) +1 What is your favourite bird?

Here is the Publisher's Summary:

This is a reverent environmental story of a wood thrush's first year and his arduous first migration -- across thousands of miles -- from his nesting ground in the Belt Woods in Maryland to his winter home in Costa Rica, and back again. During his journey Flute encounters many perils, including natural predators and devastating habitat loss.

16 comments:

Susan Helene Gottfried said...

No need to enter me, Nicola. I'm dropping in to say thanks for the e-mail. I've got this posted at Win a Book for you.

Lauren said...

Okay, I became a follower, tweeted the giveaway (@hersilntmusings), and my favorite bird is the hummingbird. Beautiful little creatures. :)

The Celebrated Author said...

I follow, and I can be reached at muchdeepmeaning @ gmail . com, and my favorite bird right now is the cardinal. what with the males so flashy and the females so drab, they make the perfect contrast.

Carol M said...

I would love to win this for my grandchildren! They would learn so much from it! They love nature so I know they would like.

I'm a follower.

I like Blue Jays.

mittens0831 at aol dot com

Wanda said...

I would love to be entered in your draw. Thanks.
I am a follower of your blog.
My favourite bird is a Robin.
wandanamgreb(at)gmail(dot)com

Mystica said...

I am a follower and would love to be given an opportunity to win this book.

My favourite bird is the woodpecker


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Winning Readings said...

This looks like a beautiful book! I'm a follower, and I love hummingbirds.

We posted about this giveaway at Winning Readings: http://winningreadings.blogspot.com/2010/02/flutes-journey.html

Julie said...

This looks like a wonderful book to have :)

I follow your blog as jelaws5

My favorite bird is the robin

aunteegem@yahoo.com

Abi said...

I'm a follower.

Favorite bird: love the grace of the eagle.

Thanks.

ABreading4fun [at] gmail [dot] com

Gwendolyn B. said...

I LOVE pictue books about birds. This one looks absolutely beautiful! Thanks for the chance to win a copy.

I'm a Follower.

+2 Here's my Tweet: http://twitter.com/ASeaOfBooks/status/9486739738

+2 Posted at my blog A Sea of Books: http://aseaofbooks.blogspot.com/2010/02/not-my-giveaway-flutes-journey-life-of.html

+1 I have a particular fondness for red-winged blackbirds.

geebee.reads AT gmail DOT com

Marci said...

Following (june_spirit2628)
june_spirit2628 at hotmail dot com
A robin is my favorite bird.

Deb said...

I'm a follower.

Fave bird: hummingbirds

Looks like a great book thanks for the giveaway

Suzanne said...

What a wonderful book! Thanks for hosting and please enter me in your giveaway!

*I am a follower!
*you can reach me at quzy (at) mac (dot) com
+1 My favorite bird is the hummingbird!

Suzanne

rubynreba said...

I am a new follower and would love to be entered. The bird book looks very good.

My favorite book is the goldfinch.

pbclark(at)netins(dot)net

Martha Lawson said...

I would love to have this book! I love bird books..

*I am a new follower

*My favorite bird is the hummingbird.

mlawson17 at hotmail dot com

Benita said...

I'm a new follower and my favorite bird's the cardinal.

bgcchs(at)yahoo(dot)com