Let’s Get Ready with Cedar Valley Publishing

Choose A Character For Cynthia’s Attic: Book Five!

Want to choose a character to be in the next Cynthia’s Attic book? Here’s how!

Listed at http://cynthiasattic.blogspot.com/2010/07/choose-character-for-cynthias-attic.html are 10 Cynthia’s Attic characters the author, Mary Cunningham, is considering for a recurring role in Book Five. Leave a comment with your choice and an explanation as to why you think the character deserves to return. Mary choose one winner based on the most compelling reason.

What do you win? First is the Cynthia’s Attic book of your choice. You can wait for Book Five (title coming soon!) or you can choose one of the first four titles. Now for the really fun part. If your character and comment is chosen, you’ll also become a character in the book!

Click Here for More Information!

What a fabulous review from Amanda at www.MultiplesAndMore.blogspot.com for the “Let’s Get Ready” series of books! 

And guess what?  YOU can win a set of them!   Just click on the image above and follow the instructions for the giveaway.  Hope you win!

Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten! & Let’s Get Ready For First Grade!

Applauded and approved by parents, kids and educators for ages 2-8, these award-winning, state-approved books are perfect to get kids ready for Kindergarten and First Grade!

Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten!

Teachers at home and in schools love it! It’s not a storybook or a workbook; it’s a book that covers the curriculum: the alphabet and numbers in and out of sequence, left and right, shapes, colors, high frequency words, positional words, opposites, rhyming, let’s read a story and so much more. It’s all in one engaging book illustrated with Mrs. Good, the teacher and six adorable Cedar Valley Kids that you simply read to children to learn.

Let’s Get Ready For First Grade!

Follow along with Ms. Best and six new Cedar Valley Kids and Yodie the Coyote who makes learning vowels and consonants, vowel sounds, compound words, contractions, the solar system, counting money, measuring, fractions, adding and subtracting and more exciting for everyone!

To learn more visit these mom-created, 100% made in USA books, visit: www.cedarvalleypublishing.com

Prize: 1 set of books: Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten! & Let’s Get Ready For First Grade!
Sponsor: Cedar Valley Publishing
# of Winners: 1
Start/End Dates: 7/14/2010 - 9/30/2010

Click Here to Submit Your Entry

Hot Moms Club, Playgroups USA and Trista Sutter have joined forces where pregnant and new moms can enter to win over $17,000 in products via the official campaign website at momtobesweepstakes.com from March 30th - May 30th, 2010.The campaign is launched alongside Jessica Denay’s and Trista Sutter’s hot new release, The Hot Mom to Be Handbook (HarperCollins).

The Ultimate Mom to Be Sweepstakes is one exciting promotion. Jessica Denay, founder of Hot Moms Club and author says, “At Hot Moms Club, we get an opportunity to see today’s hottest products for the pregnant and new mom. When we decided to launch this campaign alongside the release of my new book, we knew that we could award some truly amazing prizes.”

And she was right. Jodi Van Lom, co-founder of Playgroups USA and partner in the Ultimate Mom to Be Sweepstakes agrees. “The campaign is truly amazing. In Jessica’s new book, she gets an opportunity to mention many great products that every mom needs or would love to have. With this promotion, some lucky winners will win some of these products.”

The Ultimate Mom to Be Sweepstakes features over $17,000 in prizes that include 18 years of collection and storage of cord and cord blood from Cord Blood Registry™, a nursery set from Bratt Decor™, the hot new FastFold Stroller from Micralite™, a new infant baby carrier from lillebaby™, a beautiful gift box from Trumpette™, shaper leggings from brand new ShaToBu™, a gift basket with must have mommy lotions and creams from Mustela™, a gorgeous crib bedding set and nursery paint from Serena & Lily™, a kids clothing package from My Vintage Baby™, the latest swaddles for baby from Swaddle Designs™, essential mommy vitamins from Bayer™ Women’s One a Day and the latest Soft Motion™ shoes from Stride Rite™ and fabulous weekly prizes!

Tell all the moms you know and enter at http://www.momtobesweepstakes.com/

I am honored to be a judge for The Business Baby Shower Contest and a Media Sponsor!

Celebrating entrepreneurial moms and all they do to birth and grow a business

The Business Baby Shower, a new contest celebrating entrepreneurial moms and all they do to birth and grow a successful company while balancing family life, was recently launched as a partnership between The Mom Entrepreneur and Corporate Mom DropOuts.

The Contest, which runs from January 1 – April 30, 2010, will create awareness of mom entrepreneur companies and their products and services. Participants will complete an application process as well as submit a two minute video of their business for consideration by a panel of judges.

For more information, please CLICK HERE.

It seems like this year just flew by! I’m off to the garage to hunt for all of my favorite holiday decorations, but before that I wanted to announce an exciting new contest I’m launching with Evenflo® Home Safety today. We are giving the gift of a home safety makeover (by yours truly) this holiday season to the most deserving family!

From December 1, 2009 through January 15, 2010 enter the Evenflo Home Safety Makeover Contest by telling your story, in 500 words or less, about how you can benefit from a Home Safety Makeover in the New Year at www.evenflo.com/homesafetymakeover.  The Grand Prize winner will receive a home safety consultation with me, Evenflo gates and other home safety products (valued at nearly $2,500!) tailored to their home and family’s needs. Five lucky runners-up will receive an Evenflo Symphony65^TM car seat, valued at $199, to help your baby stay safe on the road.

To jump start your safe holiday season, keep these tips in mind:

• Always anticipate the unexpected, and stay one step ahead of your little ones.
• Consider children’s ages and developmental stages. Baby-proofing is not a project you can do and forget about it. Be vigilant; continuously monitor your baby’s developmental stages.
• Gates can provide safety zones within your home where you can keep a closer eye on baby, while helping to prevent him or her from wandering into harm’s way.

Don’t forget to submit your story to www.evenflo.com/homesafetycontest by January 15, 2010 to win!

Alison Rhodes - “The Safety Mom”
203-210-7470
www.safetymom.com

Twitter: @safetymom

Interested in your child’s safety?  Sign up for our monthly e-mail newsletter “The Safety Scoop”
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Kelly Ann T. is the winner of the Cedar Valley Publishing Contest Book Giveaway!  CONGRATULATIONS!

Kelly, please email me at Stacey@CedarValleyPublishing.com with your mailing address, so I can send your free books to you!

For the rest of you who entered, regularly check on our “Press & Media Events” tab above, as we add many websites who are running contests with our books.

Thanks again!  Stacey Kannenberg

Cedar Valley Publishing is giving away a set of their award-winning books:  Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten! (your choice of the Spanish/English or English Only Edition) & Let’s Get Ready For First Grade!  These books are currently used inside 400 school districts nationwide and been reviewed by over 700 mom bloggers.  For ages 2-8!  www.cedarvalleypublishing.com

Rules:

Leave a comment with your email address.  One comment per email address.   Contest ends at 12 midnight on October 31, 2009.  Winner will be chosen with a random draw and announced on Wednesday, November 4, 2009.  Good luck to all!

We have so many friends who either have new babies (Baby Vince, Baby Madyson, Baby Paige, Baby William, Baby Kyla - to name just a few) or are expecting soon (Sara, my guess is September  18th; and Abbie with twins, my guess is November 23rd - Mike’s birthday), so I just had to post this giveaway from The Diaper Baker.  Check out these adorable diaper cakes!!!

Click Here to Enter - BEFORE October 10th!

I wanted to pass this contest info along because who couldn’t use a week’s worth of delicious meals prepared by a chef?  The contest is organized by Oldways and The Whole Grains Council — it’s a non-profit dedicated to helping people eat better so I hope you don’t mind me posting this.

September is Whole Grains Month, and the Whole Grains Council (a 501-c-3 non-profit) is working passionately to remind people of the many ways they can enjoy whole grains, through the contest. The Whole Grains Council website.

Here are the details:

“I Love My Whole Grains” Photo Contest - Just upload a photo that shows how you enjoy your favorite whole grain food.  In addition to the grand prize (chef), there are 47 other prizes.  Enter here:  http://photocontest.wholegrainscouncil.org