Growing Readers: Gallop! Giveaway
There are three types of learners:
Visual Learners (learn by reading, seeing)
Auditory Learners (learn by listening, speaking)
Kinesthetic Learners (learn by moving, doing and touching)A learning style is simply the way that your child approaches learning. Picture Books are an excellent way to develop your child’s learning style from the earliest age. Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book
by Rufus Butler Seder appeals to all three styles of learners. Scanimation is an amazing technology that literally makes the artwork move when you flip the page.
Simple prose (”Can you soar like an eagle? Whoosh-whoosh-glide”) combined with animated artwork make this book a must-have for your picture book collection. I can’t tell you who was more fascinated with this book…myself or my kids.
WIN IT! I was so excited when I discovered Gallop! that I contacted the publisher - any book that keeps my son occupied during an entire trip to Costco is worth publicizing! Workman Publishing graciously sent me one copy of Gallop! to giveaway. Enter by commenting with the name of your favorite picture book. The giveaway will end at 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 23rd. I will notify the winner via e-mail. Stay tuned this week for more giveaways.
March 19th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
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March 19th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Oooh, difficult decision. Although it’s uber popular, which is something I sometimes tend to stay away from, I’d have to stay Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. The classic simplicity of the words and the rhymes make it easy for kids to listen to and repeat with mom or dad. The pictures, while simple, also change throughout the book if you look hard enough. The moon rises as the book (and the evening) progresses. The room gets darker. The animals move around. And I can ask my daughter to find things in the pictures that aren’t mentioned in the book, so that the book grows with her a little as she gets older. I think there’s a reason why everyone and their mother has this book!
March 20th, 2008 at 12:47 am
there are so many good books, but I love picture books like DK that have pictures of real people, animals, etc. this book would go nicely in my library
March 20th, 2008 at 5:09 am
Though there are so many great books, one of my favorites is A Hole is to Dig A First Book of First Definitions by Ruth Krauss. My older two children, 5 and 3, enjoy it as well.
March 20th, 2008 at 8:01 am
I don’t know how much of a picture book it is, but I loved Are you my Mother when I was a kid. I loved the idea of a little bird being raised by a kitten or a cow.
March 20th, 2008 at 8:23 am
My first 100 words was always a favorite or 5 little lady bugs.
March 20th, 2008 at 8:27 am
This is great! What a creative idea. My personal favorite as a child was Where the WIld Things Are…and also The Forgotten Bear.
March 20th, 2008 at 8:36 am
We love Harry the dirty dog
March 20th, 2008 at 8:46 am
the Story of Ferdinand!
March 20th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Wow, tough choice. I love Goodnight Moon but since that was mentioned, maybe the Very Hungry Caterpillar would be my next choice.
March 20th, 2008 at 9:53 am
There are so many great books that I love to choose from, but my favorite would have to be 10 Minutes to Bedtime by Peggy Rathman. There are so many hilarious things to spot on each page the kids never get tired of it.
March 20th, 2008 at 9:55 am
We love “Tuesday” by David Wiesner. I’ve seen this book and it looks really cool!
March 20th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Our kids favorite picture book is “Find Freddy”.
March 20th, 2008 at 10:32 am
I love Yonder and The Ox-Cart Man and all McCloskey’s Sal books.
March 20th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I love Where the Sidewalk Ends. Does that count as a picture book? I also love Going on a Bear Hunt.
March 20th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Oh, I love the Snowman…wordless picture book version.
March 20th, 2008 at 10:39 am
We love Weisner’s Flotsam and Lehman’s The Red Book - we’re trying to be a bilingual family so having these wordless books are so helpful in that you can tell the story in any language you want!
March 20th, 2008 at 10:49 am
I love rainbow fish!
Thanks for hosting the giveaway1
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March 20th, 2008 at 11:12 am
What a fun contest! This book is fantastic. It reminds me of the flip books with more intensity! My favorite picture book is rather old and it is called “The Carrot Seed!” Please enter me in your contest. Thanks,Cindi
March 20th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
My daughter LOVES books and this one looks fantastic! My favorite picture book is a beautiful Native American book called Ten Little Rabbits.
March 20th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Hello, I LOVE LOVE this book. I bought it for my friend’s son as a gift & would like to have a copy for my children but just a little too frugal to buy one for us….Lol…. Hoping to one day find it at a yard sale…Thanks for the opportunity,. Mrs.Clark
March 20th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
I also found this book recently at Costco. As we were looking at it my 2yo daughter was squealing with delight. Every person in the vivinity had to come over and see what the delight was all about. FUNNY! Needless to say I had to buy two of them. GREAT BOOK!!!!
We don’t have any books that just have pictures. But our favorite book right now (besides Gallop) is Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
March 20th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
already mentioned, but Goodnight Moon.
March 20th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
fav all time books are:
Where the Wild Things Are
In the Night Kitchen
Olivia
Alexander and the terrible horrible very bad no good day
March 20th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
This book looks fascinating!!
Our favorite picture books are anything that Chris Van Allsburg illustrates. :0)
Thank you! ( meg.wilson@gmail.com )
March 20th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Harold and the Purple Crayon.
March 20th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I’m fairly certain that my 18-month-old daughter would be fascinated by this book. She loves animals and would be thrilled to see them “in motion.”
My favorite picture book is probably Good Night Moon, but I also love Go Dogs Go, Marvin K. Mooney, and Green Eggs & Ham by Dr. Seuss.
March 20th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
We love Where The WIld Things Are!
March 20th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
i really like the gorgeous photos on the eyelike books, especially the Letters book!
March 20th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
My son’s favorite picture books are the “I Spy” books. They are so much fun for both of us.
March 20th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
this looks like it wouldbe a verry good book to read i would love to win this for my little one
March 20th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
what a fun contest, my kids love books!! right now our favorite is”llama, llama, red pajama”, this will easily be our next
March 20th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I liked Terrible Storm. Great giveaway! Count me in. bebemiqui82(at)yahoo(dot)com
March 20th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
My daughter’s favorite picture book is The Hungry Little Caterpillar! Thanks!
March 20th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
I loved ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ as a kid. Great giveaway, thanks!
March 20th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
My favorite picture book would have to be “A Color of His Own”. It’s about a caterpillar.
March 20th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
My current favorite picture book is Alice the Fairy which I love because the words and the pictures tell two different stories and encourage kids to be imaginative!
March 20th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Wow… i would really love to win this… i’d have to say my favorite picture book of all time is… where the wild things are…
March 20th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
The penguin that hated the cold
March 20th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Anything Eric Carle!
March 20th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
This book looks great. As a child I loved “Are You My Mother.” My favorite to read to my 1-year-old daughter is “Moo Baa La La La”.
March 20th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
we love the Rainbow Goblins in our house
March 21st, 2008 at 2:25 am
The Persian Cinderella is my favorite
March 21st, 2008 at 7:05 am
Favorite picture back at the moment for my son is Shiny Touchy Smelly Colors.
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March 21st, 2008 at 8:17 am
What a great idea for a contest!!! It was great looking at everyone’s fave book. Ours is always changing. This week it is Truck in the Muck.
March 21st, 2008 at 10:00 am
I love Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. My daughter likes Where the Wild Things Are. My son likes Harold and the Purple Crayon. At least once a week this changes!!
March 21st, 2008 at 10:24 am
Where the Wild Things Are!
March 21st, 2008 at 11:08 am
My son an I love to read. We gave Gallop to a friend of ours and they just love the book. Our favorite book is “Hush Little One, A Lullaby for God’s Children” by Anita Reith Stoths.
March 21st, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
March 21st, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I love No David
March 21st, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I saw this book at Costco and I know it would entertain my husband and toddler :). Our favorite books are the texture ones from Usborne. Right now its Diggers.
March 21st, 2008 at 3:52 pm
My boys love all sorts of books, but both love the Curious George books (and it is one of my favorites too!)
March 21st, 2008 at 4:37 pm
DS, DH and I really like “Please, Baby, Please”!
March 21st, 2008 at 7:26 pm
My favorite picture book is Where the Wildthings Are.
March 21st, 2008 at 9:21 pm
My favorite picture book is probaby “Quick as a Cricket” because my mother used to read it to us frequently. My son’s favorite is “Chugga Chugga Choo Choo.” I highly recommend both! I saw this Gallop! book in Babies ‘R Us just today and it looks really good. Thanks!
March 21st, 2008 at 10:25 pm
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March 21st, 2008 at 11:03 pm
I love Goodnight Moon. It is a classic!
Jen
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 am
Oh wow…I would love to have Gallop. Both of my girls would love this book. Older daughter has a love for reading and likes books that also have something a little different and intresting to them and my younger daughter really enjoys someone reading to her and I think this book would really strike her imagination!
March 22nd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
The first book I can remember as a child was Goodnight Moon. I have always loved it and now it’s one of my son’s favorites. Gallop looks great…thanks for the chance at the giveaway!
March 22nd, 2008 at 11:07 pm
any eric carle book is great for pictures, but we found The Very Hungry Caterpillar right off the bat and still love it…and all his other books, too!
March 23rd, 2008 at 2:25 am
It’s a toss up between Olivia and Where the Wild Things Are. I’m also with you… not sure who enjoys the books more! Thanks for the contest and introducing us to Gallop.
March 23rd, 2008 at 7:36 am
My favorite picture books are the Coco board books by the woman who made Bitter with Baggage. I love those little chicks.