Spoonful of Stories Giveaway...

To help grow kids’ love of reading at a young age, this fall Cheerios® is once again inviting families to start the day with a nutritious breakfast and a new book. As part of its ongoing commitment to nurturing young bodies and minds and helping families connect by fostering a shared love of reading, Cheerios will provide more than six million children’s books, free inside Cheerios boxes, through its Spoonfuls of Stories® program. Over the past nine years, Cheerios has distributed almost 50 million children’s books in-pack. This year’s free in-pack book offerings, appropriate for children ages three to eight and written in both English and Spanish, include: All the World, by Liz Garton Scanlon and illustrated by Marla Frazee, which discusses the many wonderful things a child can encounter in the world as well as the commonalities all the world shares. Chaucer’s First Winter, by Stephen Krensky and illustrated by Henry Cole, follows a bear named Chaucer, who knows he is supposed to sleep through the winter but feels it’s much more fun to stay up and play. Jump!, by Scott M. Fischer, chronicles the adventures of a bug, a frog, a cat, a hound, a crocodile, a shark, and a whale, who all love to jump! No T. Rex in the Library, by Toni Buzzeo and illustrated by Sachiko Yoshikawa, is a story about a little girl named Tess and her adventures in the library with a boisterous T-Rex. The Purple Kangaroo, by comedian Michael Ian Black and illustrated by Peter Brown, which is a vivid and humor-filled story that tricks the reader into thinking about a purple kangaroo. As studies have consistently shown, children with greater access to books and other print materials are more successful in school and in life. However, one recent study revealed that in low-income neighborhoods, there is only about one age-appropriate book for every 300 children,* a statistic that exposes one of the biggest barriers affecting literacy today – lack of access to books. In an effort to help combat this issue, Cheerios, as part of its Spoonfuls of Stories initiative, will also make a $300,000 financial donation to First Book, an award-winning national nonprofit that helps get books into the hands of children in need. Cheerios has donated more than $3.5 million to First Book over the past nine years.   How amazing is this program?  I was thrilled when I heard about this program.  To think a child who may not have otherwise had a book would now have access to these amazing titles certainly put a smile on my face.  Please, please, please visit www.spoonfulsofstories.com to read more about the program and to find out more ways to help get the gift of a book to a child. In honor of this fantastic program, Reviewed By Mom is giving away one Cheerio's Spoonful of Stories Prize Pack which includes each of  in box books listed above, a box  of Cheerio's and a $25 Gift Card to Barnes & Noble!   Here is how to enter... Mandatory Entry:  Leave a comment telling me what your child's favorite book is. You must complete this entry for all others to count. For Extra Entries: 1.  Follow this blog= 1 entry 2.  Like Reviewed By Mom on Facebook =1 entry 3. Comment on one of my non-giveaway posts and let me know you have done so = 1 entry 4.  Enter one of my other giveaways &let me know you have done so = 1 entry per giveaway entered. 5.  Follow Reviewed By Mom on Twitter = 1 entry 6.  Blog, Tweet or Facebook about this giveaway & let me know where to find it = 1 entry 7.  Put my button on your blog and let me know where to find it = 1 entry Please leave a separate comment for each entry and be sure to include your e-mail.  Contest is open to US residents and will end on December 1st .    The lucky winner will be announced by e-mail on December 2nd.  Winners will have 48 hours to respond before another winner is draw. Good Luck! Disclosure: This is a sponsored post and I was provided with the above mentioned books, a box of Cheerios and a $25 Barnes & Noble Gift Card from My BlogSpark and Cheerios for writing this post..  The opinions in this post are entirely my own. Your experience may differ from mine. This post has not been reviewed or edited by anyone. I was not compensated in any other way for this review. The sponsor of this giveaway is responsible for prize fulfillment and shipping the winner(s) their prize.