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Category : Book Reviews, BookieMonster News, Competitions, Fun Stuff, New Releases
The random chooser has spoken and here are the winners of the giveaway of What the Dog Saw, Cannibal Jack and Family Album.
Congratulations! I’ll be emailing you all shortly for your postal addresses. As usual thanks to everyone who entered!
And if you didn’t win I would highly recommend buying any (or all) of these titles – they are well worth the admission price… 
Category : BookieMonster News, Competitions, Fun Stuff, New Releases
Competition time! Hurrah!
I am going to giveaway my review copies of three wonderful books that I lurrrrved and you will too!
I wish I could make my photos look purdier. Anyway…
Yep – What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell, Cannibal Jack by Trevor Bentley aaaaaand Family Album by Penelope Lively! I’m going to give these away individually so you have three chances to win! Does that make sense?
That’s right, three brandspanking new release great reads. So to enter please fill in the form below. That’s all you have to do!
But if you’re really keen you can also get extra entries by:
Competition is only open to New Zealand residents (or at least, I can only post winnings within New Zealand, sorry), and runs from the time this post is up until midnight Sunday August 29. Judges decision is final and we reserve the right to change details if mistakes have been made.
And we WILL email you if you have won, and make an announcement post, so please check back on Monday 30 August for announcement and look out for an email (coz we aren’t dirty spammers, oh no).
So get browsing, get filling in, get commenting…
So, remember that post about the Booker where I waxed lyrical about David Mitchell and how gorgeous the cover of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is and how I much I loves it and covets it and it is mine, my precious, all mine… ?
Well, the judges at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2010 agree with me… or at least nominatedly* agree with me.
Just to remind you of its gorgeousness…
*Not a word you will find in a dictionary, unless it’s a dictionary made exclusively of words used on this blog.
One of my favourite (other) blogs to read is Awful Library Books – a simple but delightful concept.
Today’s entry was standout – a tribute to the ’80s and my beloved ’80s toy – the Cabbage Patch Kids. I had four. My mum actually did make them clothes (though sadly none of these)! And I had matching outfits!
It was a simpler time.
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Posted by BookieMonster | Posted on 07-08-2010
Category : Book Trade News, Fun Stuff
Tags: book news, bookiemonster, commenters rock
It’s not “whorish self-promotion” if I link to it…
From Public Address Radio, 180 Seconds with Craig Ranapia:
This week, Craig investigates the Mystery of the Dumbed Down Childrens Books. Call the Famous Five!
http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,2638,180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-1-august.sm
P.S. Thanks K Hulme for reminding me that I wanted to post this! Bookie commenters are full of win!