Splash Into Summer Giveaway Hop (2 Winners)!

Welcome to the Splash into Summer Giveaway Hop!

What could be a better way to greet the hot new season than lots of cool giveaways? I Am A Reader, Not A Writer and Page Turners Blog are co-hosting a week-long giveaway blog hop involving 300+ blogs, each giving away book-related prizes! Be sure to check out the linky at the end of this post and enter as many giveaways as you can! 

The warm weather in summer encourages us to get outside and get close to nature. I am giving away two sets of high-concept books from Blue Apple Books that are perfect for children who love to explore the great outdoors! Each winner will receive the following two books:

How Things Work in the Yard describes the inner workings of just about everything that's right outside a youngster's back door, including acorns, bubbles, puddles, ants, fireflies, clouds, birds and even dandelions. Written for kids ages 4-8. Creator Lisa Campbell Ernst deftly strikes the right balance of detailed yet easy-to-understand language and cleverly labeled drawings to inventively explain the functioning of objects that may seem quite ordinary to us grown ups but rather extraordinary to our children!

Bugs by the Numbers features an amazing array of insects: butterflies to termites, dragonflies to walking sticks. What makes this book a true stand-out is that these incredible insects are ingeniously engineered out of numerals. Each entry also includes fascinating numeric facts about its subject -- like how a flea can bite up to 400 times per day or that a queen termite can lay 1 egg every 15 seconds! This eye-catching and imaginative book for kiddos ages 6-12 features 9 die-cut gatefolds and text that is fun, funny and informative!

Both books are filled with colorful illustrations and interesting facts. I believe they appeal to both young book-lovers and their parents.

Giveaway Rules

Required Entry: Follow my blog publicly via Google Friends Connect and leave a relevant comment on this post. That's it! (Please leave a valid email address in your comment or in this form, or make sure one is visible in your blogger profile).

Extra Entries (optional): please make sure you do the required entry first! Please leave a separate comment for each extra entry, i.e. 1 comment=1 entry.

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• Enter the Just for Dad contest to win a $250 Apothica gift card (1 extra entry)
• "Like" Blue Apple Books on Facebook and leave your FB name (1 extra entry)

Giveaway ends at 11:59 pm Pacific Time on 5/31/11
Open to US Residents Only

Winners will be chosen using random.org and will have 72 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen.

Thanks for entering and good luck!

Disclosure: I received free books for review. The sponsor will be responsible for sending the giveaway prizes directly to the winners.