The Very Hungry Caterpillar Giveaway
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle is a classic children’s book. I actually just checked this one out for my 4 year old and he enjoyed it. Books like that never get old. It just so happens this book is this years Jumpstart Read for the Record book.
Jumpstart’s Read for the Record is really a great cause in my opinion. All it takes is one book, one story, 5 minutes of your time to get a child interested in reading. What better of a book to do that with than The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Jumpstart’s Read for the Record will kick off on October 8th, 2009, on NBC’s TODAY show in Rockefeller Center with Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, and others.
To Participate
Be counted. Pledge to read today at readfortherecord.org. You’ll find everything you need to have your participation counted on October 8th.
Buy your book. Visit a Wal-Mart near you to buy this year’s limited edition campaign book. You can also buy it online at readfortherecord.org; proceeds from book sales benefit Jumpstart.
Sponsor a book. Most of the preschool children Jumpstart works with don’t have books at home, let alone the classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Help “jumpstart” a child’s library – visit readfortherecord.org to donate a book today.
Share it. Check out this awesome PSA on Youtube and share it with your friends/family.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Giveaway
Chelsea is the winner!
For spreading the word we have been able to get two copies of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. One to giveaway to you, and one to donate to my son’s Pre-K classroom.
His school isn’t located in the best neighborhood. However his teacher couldn’t be better, and his classmates all are pretty good kids. His teacher started a classroom library where kids could take home books from the class. The problem with that was there wasn’t many books. I personally donated about 20, and I am happy to be able to give them a brand new book, thanks to ReadfortheRecord.org.
Even if you don’t have children you can enter this to support the awesome program and spread the word. Consider giving it to family or maybe a local preschool that could use a great book like this for many years to come.
To Enter:
Mandatory: Simply share any childhood memory you have of reading classic books like this, or even The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Or just comment about which is your favorite and why.
To get a bonus entry please pledge to read this book. It’s a simple online form you fill out stating how many kids you are reading to, every kid counts!
For an additional entry subscribe to our newsletter. The newsletter goes out once a week (sometimes two if we are really busy!) and features different freebies, coupons, deals, online sites, and of course our contests.
To have your “bonus/additional” entries counted make sure to let me know in the comment section below along with your “mandatory” entry.
The winner will be chosen with random.org. The contest will run until Monday October 12th, 2009 at 11:59 PST.
The contest is valid for US residents.
This is such a cute book! Used to read it to my niece!
I have pleged to read to 3 children, this book.
I remember this both when I was a kid and I loved it, the artwork is what drew me into this author and I now read him to my kids.
I have also joined the newsletter!
We used this as part of speech therapy for my daughter.
I pledged to read to both my kids.
I remember this book from childhood. I remember my teacher reading it to us as well as there was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
If i win this i will DEFINITELY donate it to the daycare i work at!
Assuming this, i put in i will read it to 45 of the kids at the daycare, and read along with my 6 year old nephew.
I’m already a part of the newsletter.
What a great idea…I can donate it to my son’s preschool. He loves reading this book with a snack.
Sorry for the additional entry, but I subscribed to your newsletter AND pledged to read. Awesome! Thanks.
I used to read this book to my friend’s little girl, and now I would love my daughter to have her own copy! Thanks!
I pledged to read this book to my daughter!
i love this book and will read it to my son who loves the colors and the story i also have a little cousin i could give the other one to he is only a few months older than my son. they are buddies!
this was my daughter’s absolute favorite book in kindergarten. i now have a son who is 2 who also loves eric carle books!
This was a very special book to my daughter and son, I have another baby now and I havent read it to him yet, but I will!!!!!!
I subscribed and pledged
I would love to get this book for my daughter she is 2 years old and is always saying that her belly is hungy even just after she ate. She would get a kick out of this book I had forgoteen all about it. HMM Maybe a trip to the library is in order.
i subscribed and pledged
my mom bought me this book when i was in elementary, it came with a cassette tape to read along with (remember cassettes? lol) since then i have always loved Eric Carle’s books and have started to collect them for my own 3 children
I love this book. It was a favorite of my older son and I hope it will be for my younger son as well.
Aww I remember this! Another childhood book memory is reading “The Little Mermaid” by Hans Christan Andersen. I was so mad at the end when she turned into seafoam!! LOL. Thank you for the giveaway!
I remember my Grandpa reading to my sister and I. He was reading us Too Many Daves by Dr. Seuss. He was laughing so hard, he almost fell off the couch. He was more entertaining than the book.
I remember how much I loved when my dad would read me books.
My 4 year old son’s teacher would LOVE this book for her class. She teaches single parents kids of low-income families so their parents can work to support them the best they can. Great group of children here! Her age group is 3-4 yr old children!
I pledge to read this book as well as be sure she reads this book to the children. I am sure it will brighten up their day!!
Thanks so much!
I subscribed as well.
I loved Matilda by Roald Dahl hehe
This was my favorite book as a child. I loved the amazing artwork. Very bright and colorful.
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–Chelsea
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Just a note that we’ve posted about this at Winning Readings:
http://winningreadings.blogspot.com/2009/10/very-hungry-caterpillar.html
I remember my mom was always reading to us Dr. Suess books and the favorite with me and my brother was always Green Eggs & Ham. We would ask my mom on quite a few occassions to cook green eggs for us because we loved the book! Because my mom always had books around for us I grew to love reading and I hope to pass that along to my kids and my daycare kids.
Thanks for the chance!!
I pledged to read. I read every day with my daycare kids so this is great!!
I just subscribed to receive the emails!
I loved it when my Mom read Rumpelstiltskin. I just loved to hear his name.
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I took the pledge.
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I love the hungry caterpillar book. We read it in daycare and have great crafts for it. I would like to give it to my Granddaughters.
I love this book, however, my favorite childhood book is “Love You Forever”. My mom read that to me as a child and I hope to continue that tradition someday!
We <3 Eric Carle in my house!!
We love this book….he just eats and eats…. We love to read. It is important to READ TO YOUR KIDS, heck they dont even have to be yours!!!!It would be great to have a copy at our house. We love eric carles books, i love the illustrations.
my memory of reading this book as a kid was somehow being scared of each page that had the food the caterpillar was eating. we never owned this book but whenever i saw it at a friend’s house, i got scared. a few years later, i saw it at the library and it was explained to me and i turned out loving the book (odd, i know). i’d like to be able to share the joys of this book w/my children.