Welcome to the 2019 Jeepers! It’s January! Giveaway Hop. We’ve stumbled into the new year and now we’re celebrating with a fun giveaway event offering great prizes. I’m excited to introduce you to great children’s titles from Tilbury House Publishers and fun games from Winning Moves. We’re supposed to get snow this weekend in Ohio and there’s nothing better than being stuck in the house playing family games!
Winning Moves Games
It’s time for a fun flashback to your childhood! Winning Moves has brought back the classic 90’s Game Pretty Pretty Princess! The new 2019 games list includes your retro favorites and some new ones you’ve never played. Offering a great variety of games for all ages, Winning Moves has forged a close friendship with some of the industries top game makers. If you’re looking for a fast-paced game full of laughs or if you need a calm puzzler so you can enjoy the quiet of the falling snow, you’ll find a game for every mood at Winning Moves.
If da Vinci Painted a Dinosaur by Amy Newbold and illustrated by Greg Newbold
In this sequel to the tour de force children’s art-history picture book If Picasso Painted a Snowman, Amy Newbold conveys nineteen artists’ styles in a few deft words, while Greg Newbold’s chameleon-like artistry shows us Edgar Degas’ dinosaur ballerinas, Cassius Coolidge’s dinosaurs playing Go Fish, Hokusai’s dinosaurs surfing a giant wave, and dinosaurs smelling flowers in Mary Cassatt’s garden; grazing in Grandma Moses’ green valley; peeking around Diego Rivera’s lilies; tiptoeing through Baishi’s inky bamboo; and cavorting, stampeding, or hiding in canvases by Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, Franz Marc, Harrison Begay, Alma Thomas, Aaron Douglas, Mark Rothko, Lois Mailou Jones, Marguerite Zorach, and Edvard Munch. And, of course, striking a Mona Lisa pose for Leonardo da Vinci.
Mother Earth’s Lullaby by Terry Pierce and illustrated by Carol Heyer
When Mother Earth bids goodnight, / the world is bathed in silver light. / She says, “Goodnight, my precious ones.” / Nature’s song has just begun.
Mother Earth’s Lullaby is a gentle bedtime call to some of the world’s most endangered animals. Rhythm, rhyme, and repetition create a quiet moment for children burrowing down in their own beds for the night, imparting a sense that even the most endangered animals feel safe at this peaceful time of day. In successive spreads, a baby giant panda, yellow-footed rock wallaby, California condor, Ariel toucan, American red wolf, Sumatran tiger, polar bear, Javan rhinoceros, Vaquita dolphin, Northern spotted owl, Hawaiian goose, and Key deer are snuggled to sleep by attentive parents in their dens and nests under the moon and stars.
How Nature Works: Don’t Mess With Me: The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures by Paul Erickson and photographs by Andrew Martinez
Why are toxins so advantageous to their possessors as to evolve over and over again? What is it about watery environments that favors so many venomous creatures? Marine biologist Paul Erickson explores these and other questions with astounding images from Andrew Martinez and other top underwater photographers.
GREAT for teaching STEM Marine Biology.
Scorpions and brown recluse spiders are fine as far as they go, but if you want daily contact with venomous creatures, the ocean is the place to be. Blue-ringed octopi, stony corals, sea jellies, stonefish, lionfish, poison-fanged blennies, stingrays, cone snails, blind remipedes, fire urchins―you can choose your poison in the ocean. Venoms are often but not always defensive weapons. The banded sea krait, an aquatic snake, wriggles into undersea caves to prey on vicious moray eels, killing them with one of the world’s most deadly neurotoxins, which it injects through fangs that resemble hypodermic needles. The Komodo dragon, an ocean-going reptile, tears into a water buffalo with its blade-like teeth, then secretes a deadly toxin into the open wounds.
Enter The Giveaway!
One lucky entrant selected by the entry form will receive the Jeepers! It’s January Children’s Books & Winning Moves Games Prize Package! (ARV $105) Open to entrants in the US, 18 years and older. Open for entry from 01/08/19-1/22/19 at 11:59 pm EST. The winner will have 24 hours to respond to the notification email to claim this prize or a new winner will be selected. The Kids Did It and participating bloggers not responsible for prize fulfillment.
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So happy to be the grand prize winner! I submitted the google docs form 2/04/19!
Thanks so much to you and your sponsors!
I have 6 kids and 1 grandchild.They would love these. Thank you