Cheerios Spoonful of Stories: Review and Giveaway: CLOSED!

Cheerios has made a commitment to Children's Literacy with Spoonfuls of Stories Program. Over the past 8 years, Cheerios has given away more than 40 million children´s books by distributing them free inside cereal boxes and has donated $3.2 million to First Book, their non-profit partner, which provides books to children from low-income families.

Beginning this month, Cheerios is providing 6 million Children's books free in boxes of Cheerios! This year there are 5 new books and each one is in both English and Spanish ( in the same book). What mother doesn't buy Cheerios? The books are geared towards children ages 3-8 years old, which just so happens to be the ages ( give or take a few months) of my boys.

Here is a break down of these 5 books along with some information provided by MyBlogSpark:

Tea For Ruby was written by The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. Tea for Ruby is the perfect little book for little girls! Ruby gets invited to Tea with the queen, but Ruby tends to have problems with diasters happening all around here. So Ruby has to shape up her manners and quick. As you can imagine living in a house of all boys, this book was not much of a hit with them, but I found it to be adorable!

Junkyard Fort was written by Jon Scieszka, and illustrated by David Shannon, Loren Long and Dave Gordon. This book is about the Trucktown characters, like Jack, Ted, Gabriella, Lucy, Melvin and more who all work together to build a fort. They venture out in the junkyard to find parts to build their fort. This book was a huge hit with my youngest who is all about cars. Their are Monster trucks, ice cream trucks, dump trucks, and many more! There are activities for the kids in the back of the book.

Ballyhoo Bay was written by Judy Sierra and illustrated by Derek Anderson. This book is about Mira Bella, the artist, who teaches classes at the beach. Ballyhoo Bay is fun for all, until one gray day a billboard arrives, announcing an impending development that would take all the fun out of the place. What will come of Mira Bella the artist and her classes? Check it out and find out!

Sleepyhead was written by Karma Wilson and illustrated by John Segal. This book is a great bedtime story, especially for my two little ones... they like to put sleeping off anyway they can. In this book, Sleepyhead Teddy does just that. I am sure a lot of parents can relate to this story.

What's Under the Bed? was written and illustrated by Joe Fenton. This book is about Fred and he is worried about what creature might be lurking under his bed. He eventually peeks to see what it is and it ends up only being his teddy bear Ted.

To help get the word out on this promotion: Cheerios and MyBlogSpark sent me an awesome Spoonfuls of Stories gift pack.

The gift pack included a set each of the five Spoonfuls of Stories books, a BIG box of Cheerios, and a $25 gift card to Barnes & Noble.

But their kindness did not stop there, they also offered one of my readers the same gift pack that I received.

To Enter:

Required entry: Answer this question: What is your favorite children´s book? ( Mine was There's a Monster at the End of this Book).

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The winner will be chosen by Random.org and will have 48 hours to reply or another winner will be chosen. The contest will end November 8th at 11:59pm Pacific time. Thanks for entering, keep reading to your kids and good luck!