Cheerios 100,000 Book Giveaway {Giveaway}

Obviously books are a vital part of reading development. I have found myself to be a bit addicted to buying books for my kids who love to read so I have a hard time reading these startling statistics:

-Over 80 percent of childcare centers serving low-income children lack age-appropriate books

-The ratio of books per child in middle income neighborhoods is 13 to 1, while in low-income neighborhoods, the ratio is 1 age-appropriate book for every 300 children.

These statistics are plain scary which is why Cheerios, First Book and children’s book author Jon Scieszka have joined together to deliver 100,000 books to community-based programs serving children in need.

Want to know how you can help? Simply visit here with your child and test your combined knowledge of children’s books by answering trivia questions related to books like “Trucktown” by Jon Scieska. For every trivia question answered correctly, you can cast one vote for the state you would like to receive books. The five states receiving the most votes will get 20,000 books each, for a total of 100,000 books.

How  would you like to win the awesome prize pack shown to foster your own child’s love of reading, courtesy of General Mills through My Blog Spark?

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General Mills like to give one of my readers a prize package including a $25 Barnes & Noble gift card, a box of one of the many varieties of Cheerios and an assortment of books. 

MAIN ENTRY: Tell me your favorite children’s book!

Want more entries? (I know you do!) After answering my question do any of the following and leave a comment telling me what you did. Each is worth one entry unless otherwise noted. Your comment is your entry so please leave the appropriate number of comments for each extra entry.

-Visit www.FirstBook.org/Scieszka, get a trivia question right and tell me what state you voted for! (3 entries)
-Follow my blog publicly
-Subscribe to my feed in a reader or by email
-Follow me on twitter and tweet about this giveaway

Win a Cheerios reading prize pack w/ a $25 Barnes & Noble GC, Cheerios & books! @babylovingmama http://tinyurl.com/ydqdqah #giveaway PLS RT!

-Add my button to your blog
-Blog about this contest and link back here and to the Cheerios 100k Book Giveaway site (3 entries)

This contest will end on 1/14/10 at 11:59 pm CST. US residents only. The winner will be drawn via random.org. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to winning notification email before I draw another winner or do a live giveaway.

Disclosure: I received a the same prize pack given away from General Mills through My Blog Spark . This has no bearing on my completely honest post above and was not influenced by any type of monetary compensation. The opinions and experiences I’ve shared with these products are my own and yours may differ.