Winners of the Children's Book Competition

Mark and I are very pleased to announce the four winning schools who had taken a chance on this fledgling compettion. They will not be disappointed - there are a lot of books! - and we're hoping these books will be much loved by the kids.

The winning schools are:

St Catherine's RC School in Bexley
Oak Lodge Primary School in West Wickham
Meadlands Primary in Ham, Richmond
Langley Park Boys in Beckenham

Congratulations and thank you to everyone who had entered. The individual books won by students who had entered are all winging their way via Royal Mail to the winners. I am still awaiting two to email me back, so if you've entered, make sure to check your email and send us your details. We've sent books ALL over the country - so that is pretty darn cool. Spreading the love is what we are al about.

Keep an eye out for more competitions in the future - this time around it will be open to everyone, not just the kids!

UK Children's Free Book Competition - Part 4

This week's giveaway is two copies of Gregory MacGuire's What the Dickens!

Find Master Macguire's website here.

About What the Dickens

A fairy tale with a difference from the bestselling author of Wicked.

When ten-year-old Dinah and her two siblings are trapped by a terrible storm, Cousin Gage keeps their spirits up with an unlikely story – tooth fairies live in warring colonies right in your neighbourhood. Dinah is sceptical at first, but when the real world seems unbearable, stories told by candlelight have a way of coming true. Dinah starts to – wants to – believe. Don’t we all?

UK Children's Free Book Competition - Part 3

Today's offer is....TWO copies of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight.

Rules here!

Good luck!

UK Children's Free Books Competition - Part 2

Today I have two books up for grabs, my lovelies!

Two copies of Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar (the tv tie-in book)

and

One copy of From Where I Stand by Tabitha Suzuma

Please follow the rules in this post, otherwise you will be disqualified.

The competition ends at midnight (UK time) on 28th February 2009.

Good luck to all the entrants!

UK Children's Free Book Competition - Part 1

Firstly, to all the schools who have entered / registered your interest, thank you very much for your support. You now don't have to do a single thing more, apart from wait to hear from us at the end of February to see if you had won one of the four (or five) boxes of books we've put together from the donations sent to us by the publishers.

The rest of the competition is now up and running - which means, specially selected free books are up for grabs for individual school children - UK only, I'm afraid. Click this link to read ALL the rules and try and comply by them as much as possible. The entries close at midnight on the 28th February - you may enter for as many books as you like, but not several times for the same book, as that isn't fair.

Today's book up for grabs is the by one of my favourite authors - Garry Kilworth.

The Hundred Towered City by Garry Kilworth is published by Atom who is one of the five publishers sponsoring the free books to schools competition.

Synopsis of the book:

What awaits Jack, Annie and Davey when they are transported back in time to the gothic city of Prague, to search for their missing parents? Trying to avoid capture by the secret police, they find themselves running through dark and dangerous cobbled streets and meet some very shady characters.

Where are their parents and who has stolen the key to the time machine?

Alchemists, mythical creatures and a man with a hook for a hand hold the answers they’re looking for.

Will our young heroes be in time to save their parents from eerie Karlstein Castle? And even if they do, how will they return to the present day without the key?

Read the review by our fellow blogger Gav of Nextread.