Read52 with something a little bit different from Barefoot Books.

This week I’ve already read and reviewed a book – the 5th Wave by Rick Yancey. And while I’ve done reading with the children, I don’t have anything specific to talk about that we’ve read.

So instead I’m going to pad this post out with a picture of a cute owl.

Isn’t he cute? I got him from barefoot books, they were giving away a free voucher if you filled in a survey. I think that offer is over now, but they seem to regularly have a variety of offers, and their books are utterly gorgeous. In fact, I’m pondering signing up as an ambassador, but the initial layout of £60 is a bit offputting. Anyone out there done it and got experience to share? Or would any of you consider buying via me?

Anyway, there was a mixup on the order and they sent me two owls! Which means, you lucky lucky people, that one of you is in line to win your very own cute owl finger puppet. How can you resist?

All you need to do to be entered is tell me your favourite book about animals. Picture book, novel, encyclopaedia, I don’t mind, just let me know what it is in a comment.

The competition closes next Thursday 11th April at midnight so that I can announce the winner next Friday. And you can have an extra entry for sharing this post, using the badge or joining the linky with your own Read52 post – but you must leave an extra comment for each thing you’ve done, telling me what it is. As I’m doing the posting, I’m afraid it’s only open to UK – but if you’re international and happy to arrange to have it posted on you can do that – I’m only sending to a UK address. Draw will be made using the lovely plugin and the winner is, which relies on separate comment entries.

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Enter the linky.

The background: I’ve challenged Big to read 52 books this year. She will probably be mentioning them over here on her blog. I’m also going to have a crack at reading at least 52 books myself, and more importantly, I’m going to keep track of what books I’m reading to the little ones. I’m going to do all of that in a weekly post, and I’ve also set up a google plus community which you’re very welcome to join. (If you need an invitation, leave me a comment using relevant email address – which will stay hidden.)

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Last week’s winner was Beth. Congrats Beth 🙂