Monday, December 1, 2008

Great Monday Give: House is a House For Me

And so the holiday officially begins... To kick it off in style, the Great Monday Give for this week is an excellent hardcover, like-newish copy of one of my son's faves, A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman. Great book. Great story. Great illustrations. All you have to do to be entered to win is comment on this post before midnight ~ Sunday, December 7. The winner will be announced the following day.

Last week's give of The Story About Ping was selected using the highly scientific and accurate blond scroll and point method and will be taken home by Elena. Congrats!

40 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'd love to win, but I've cursed myself by being the first commenter, haven't I?

jamie said...

I can't get enough of your blog- thank you so much for sharing all of this with us!

Elena said...

Wow, thank you! I've never won anything on a blog before! What now?

Burgin Streetman said...

duh! e-mail me at webe(at)soon(dot)com

Celeste said...

This one looks great--thanks for the chance to win a copy!

daysease said...

Looks like a busy and fun one... Thanks...

Beca said...

I would love this book!! Thanks!

karichuckroryskylar said...

Looks like a great one!

aly said...

I've never read it, but it sounds great!

Edi said...

This title sounds so familiar...

Thanks for a chance to win another book to add to our collection.

Brooke said...

My house needs one of these. So fun to read. Such a classic.

MonsterAteMy said...

Ooh, that sounds so familiar, but I know it's not in our current collection...

Anonymous said...

mary ann hoberman . . . yay! her book 'the seven silly eaters' is one of our all-time faves.

thanks! :)

Peter said...

Pretty, pretty please?

katie@weheartbooks.com said...

High praise if it's one of your home's favourites - adding my name to the draw!

Anonymous said...

Would love to add this to our collection. Thank you for bringing back these special childhood memories and helping to create many more!

Anonymous said...

I would love to win a copy of this book for my new neice. Thanks!! LOVE THE BLOG :)

MMMadrid said...

Hi there, I found your blog through your etsy shop and I think what your doing is so great! I think vintage books are so much better. Thanks for the chance,

Anonymous said...

my daughter LOVES books!

Anonymous said...

Looks like an interesting one to read to my 3 year old...thanks for showing me books I've never seen.

Gretchen said...

I just discovered your blog and have a feeling I'll be checking in regularly: what a great way to share your passion with others. Keep up the collecting/reviewing/giving!

Anonymous said...

I really enjoy your blog! Thanks for bringing out all these great books!

Anonymous said...

hello! i stumbled upon your blog - i also relish in children's books & love vintage ones the most! would love to win :)

Julie said...

I found your blog through your etsy shop, which I found through dooce. HOUSE IS A HOUSE..., with its riddling rhymes, is exactly the kind of book my 3-year-old's into now, the kind to which he would later say, "Mommy, who lives in a teapot?"

Burgin Streetman said...

if he'd read the book, he would know that a teapot is a home for some tea!

Anonymous said...

Wow, this is the kind of place I dream about! All about books. Lovely books. Children's books. Old books. Books overflowing the house, and still more wanting to get in. Books that one has to get rid of in interest of marital accord - sigh. Got here from your etsy shop (pointed by dooce) - and I am DELIGHTED to be here! Who knows I might even be inspired to resume writing daily on mine as well! (I write about websites for children - the ones I have used for my kid!) Thank you!

light.my.sapphire said...

Hi scribbler! I just found your blog through Etsy and I have loved reading your entries! What you're doing is so wonderful, thanks!! :) xx

Candice said...

Just found your blog like many others on here through dooce. We are a book loving family and this will now be one of my regularly visited sites! Thanks, I can't wait to read more!

RAY said...

More and more books to get and read!!! It is driving my husband nuts :)

lissie said...

What a wonderful idea for a blog! Love it, keep 'em coming! :)

Anonymous said...

I hate buying my son "new" copies of books I used to love - the illustrations are all wrong and the covers aren't dinged up from years of being on library shelves. Yay for vintage books!

Debbie R said...

Oh this looks like one of my childhood favorites that I still have. I used to read it to my little sister and brother and remember those times fondly. That book was Never Talk To Strangers! Yummy illustrations and colors.
Thank you for what you do! I love to look through all of your suggestions when I have spare time.

Deborah said...

Oh, I've found my own little piece of heaven here: free vintage books for children. Yummtastic.

Love it, all of it!

Andi said...

I enjoy your posts. I read collect vintage books and your posts help me know what ones to look for. Thank you.

Anonymous said...

I'd love it--thanks for writing a cool blog!

Carrie K said...

followed you from dooce. simply wonderful stuff here...count me as a new regular

Anonymous said...

Would love to have this for my granddaughter. Nice blog!

Marci + Dan said...

Would love to win!

maria said...

Just found your blog thanks to dooce - what a nifty site!

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