Cheerios Spoonful of Stories Review & Giveaway

Over the past eight 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. The program is part of Cheerios' ongoing commitment to helping parents provide their children with a healthy, nutritional and educational foundation.

Beginning this month, Cheerios is again bringing books to the breakfast table, by providing six million children's books free inside Cheerios boxes. The books are for children ages 3 to 8 years old, and include a brand new book in the popular "Trucktown" series, available only inside Cheerios boxes. And for the first time, all five books have been specially printed in both English and Spanish.

This year's book offerings from Cheerios - all by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - are:

Junkyard Fort, written by Jon Scieszka, and illustrated by David Shannon, Loren Long and Dave Gordon: Join Gabriella, Jack, Melvin, Ted, Lucy and the other Trucktown characters as they make their own fort, using things found in the junkyard. Ages 4-8.

Tea for Ruby, written by The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser: Wherever Ruby goes, a bit of disaster seems to follow. But one sunny morning, things change when the postman brings Ruby an amazing invitation: would she like to have tea with the Queen? Ruby needs to polish her manners, and quickly. Ages 4-8.

Sleepyhead, written by Karma Wilson and illustrated by John Segal: In this rhythmic bedtime story, a cat is the parent and a teddy bear is the child who doesn't want to go to bed. All ready for bed with teeth brushed and story read, Sleepyhead teddy tries anything to prolong his bedtime; books and his quilt provide ample fodder for his imagination. Ages 3-7.

Ballyhoo Bay, written by Judy Sierra and illustrated by Derek Anderson: Mira Bella, an artist who teaches painting and sculpture, loves Ballyhoo Bay and what it offers: sun, sea, sand, and sky. But one gray day a billboard arrives, announcing an impending development that would take all the fun out of the place. Read along to see if Mira Bella and her art can save the day and Ballyhoo Bay! Ages 4-8.

What's Under the Bed?, written and illustrated by Joe Fenton: Young Fred cannot stop worrying about the scary creature that might be hiding beneath his bed. Finally summoning the courage to peer under his bed, Fred, with his cumbersome glasses, sees that the only thing there is Ted, his friendly Teddy Bear! Ages 3-7.

-The above was taken from My Blog Spark-

My kids love it when we read books together, Maddisyn is just learning to sit through them and doesn't normally stay put but listens from a distance.  The older two boys will gather around and listen eagerly while I read books and try to be patient as I read some that are a little "young" for them because of their baby brother and sister.  Holden likes the soothing tones and loves to sit and look at the pages so this spark was great and provided us some great family times with some new books to read together.  We also received a box of cheerios that we all love to sit and munch on and is also Maddisyns favorite breakfast food and a $25.00 gift card to Barnes and Noble so that we can buy more books to read together.

~BUY IT~

Go buy a box of Cheerios to get one of the limited edition books before supplies run out.

~WIN IT~

Cheerios is going to give one of my readers the same prize pack that I received which contained the five books, a box of cheerios and a $25.00 gift card to Barnes and Noble.

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Tell my how often you read with your children, if you do not have children or have no children living at home then tell me what your favorite childrens book was growing up.

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This giveaway is open US & Canada.

Ends Nov 14, 2009 @ 12:00 PM EST

(Winners will have 48 hours to respond to my email before I choose a new winner)

Thank you to Cheerios and My Blog Spark for this awesome giveaway.

This was not a paid post and honest opinions were used. Products in this review were given to me free of cost by the manufacturer or representing PR agency for review only. Opinions in this review are mine and are in NO way influenced by monetary compensation.