Cheerios Spoonfuls of Stories Gift Set Giveaway!!

35 Million children's books, did you know that is the number of books that Cheerios has given out over the past seven years? They have also donated almost $3 Million to First Book, a program that gives books to low income families. What a wonderful thing to do. This company truly cares about children, and wants to make sure that all children learn to read and love to do it.

Not only do they love providing children with books, they love to give aspiring authors a chance to write children's books. This will be the third year that Cheerios has held the Spoonfuls of Stories New Author Contest. This contest gives unpublished authors a chance to have their children's book published. Entries are being accepted until July 15, 2009, and will be judged on the following criteria:

• appropriate story and content for children ages 3-8

• emotional connection

• writing quality

• uniqueness

• read-aloud potential

The grand prize is $5000 and a chance to have your book published. There will be two first prizes of $1000 each. The stories of all the contest winners will appear on www.SpoonfulsofStories.com.

If you would like to enter, or find out more information on the contest, please visit spoonfulsofstoriescontest.com.

Cheerios and MyBlogSpark have partnered together to offer one lucky winner a Cheerios Spoonfuls of Stories gift set. The set will include:

• "The Great Dog Wash"
• Three other books from the Spoonfuls library.
  

To enter the contest leave a comment on this post answering this question: If you could be a character from a children's book, who would it be?

You may earn additional entries by:

1. Subscribing to my blog.
2. Following my blog.
3. Blogging about the giveaway.
4. Following me on Twitter, under the links tab.
5. Tweeting about the giveaway.
6. Adding my button to your blog.

You do not have to own a blog in order to win, but please make sure to leave an email address so that I can contact you if you win, and please leave an additional comment for each entry.

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