Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Little One Books $20 Gift Certificate Giveaway & Corduroy DVD Review

Happy New Year everybody! In honor of the new year, I'm co-hosting a $20 gift certificate giveaway with Little One Books.


I did a previous giveaway with this fantastic grandparent owned company here.

But before I get to the giveaway, I want to talk about a DVD based on a classic children's book: Corduroy.

If you don't know the story, it's about a little girl who falls in love with a stuffed bear in a department store who is missing a button on his corduroy overalls. It's a wonderful story where, in the end, she saves up enough money to buy the bear, who she appropriately names Corduroy, and fixes his missing button.

Ari just heard Corduroy at a weekly story time at the Brooklyn Public Library and he loved it.

Recently, I was perusing the Little One Books website and found this:

It's a live action version of the classic book and it also has six other stories on it narrated by Laura Dern, Mia Farrow and others.

At first, I have to admit, I was a little scared of how they would pull off a "live action" version of Corduroy. In the book, Corduroy (the bear) comes to life and runs around the department store in search of his missing button.

But then I recalled this fellow from the 1980's:

Remember Teddy Ruxpin? He was a talking bear friend of mine from childhood. If I accepted him, I told myself, I could accept a live action Corduroy, who looked eerily similar to Ruxpin.


Ari was demanding to watch Max and Ruby today, but I told him we were going to watch Corduroy instead. He pouted for all of five minutes. Then, all of a sudden, he started to get into it:

Can you see his fascinated expression in the reflection of my laptop?



After Corduroy was over he demanded to watch it again even though I explained to him that there were six more stories on the DVD. Eventually, he got around to the remaining stories and decided that he also loves "Goose" and "The Happy Owls."

Now, time for the giveaway! If chosen, you will win a $20 gift certificate to Little One Books. They have fantastic children's books, DVDs and CDs!

To Enter:

1. Post a comment with what product(s) you'd like to buy from the Little One Books website
2. Follow my blog (either with feed reader, or Google Friend Connect)
3. Like Little One Books on Facebook here.
4. Like Old School/New School Mom on Facebook here
5. Follow Little One Books on Twitter here.
6. Finally, sign up for The Little One Books newsletter! The sign up is on the upper right hand corner of their site.

Also, when you purchase two or more items on the Little One Books site between 1/5/11 and 1/19/11, you get a free children's music CD!

Just enter the promotional code 'goodmorning' at checkout.

The winner to this giveaway will be selected at random and announced on Wednesday 1/19/11!

GOOD LUCK and HAPPY 2011!!!

23 comments:

  1. Ok! So I was perusing the site and this really caught my eye!

    http://www.littleonebooks.com/Dream-Songs-Night-Songs-From-China-to-Senegal-Storybook-with-Music-CD_p_1215.html

    It's a CD and book of children's lullabies sung in English, Spanish, and French. I love it!

    I did everything else on the list too...even created the Twitter account (groan) lol. *Fingers crossed!*

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  2. Oh and this is a semi-local company, YAY! They're out of Seattle it seems!

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  3. Yay Amanda! You braved the Twitter world! Email me your user name ;0

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  4. I really want to get my baby boy the Touch and Feel Baby Animals book...he just is enamored by these books! And I want Fancy Nancy for my almost 4 year old.

    grahamcrackerbabykisses AT gmail DOT com

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  5. I follow via GFC.

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  6. I like Little One Books on FB as Christina Graham.

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  7. I like Little ONe Books on Twitter as gcbabykisses.

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  8. I get the Little ONe Books newsletter.

    grahamcrackerbabykisses AT gmail DOT com

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  9. i would buy The Polar Express
    for my daughter if i won
    thanks
    flower_child_23(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  10. I think I would like to get something like "Noah's Ark
    by Jerry Pinkney"

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  11. I am so glad that you are doing another giveaway with this company! I did purchase the CD I mentioned during the last giveaway and Grace loves it.
    This time around I would probably have to go with any of the llama llama books, as Grace has developed an infatuation with them. I have to admit that I love reading them to her. The books read so smoothly and are very fun to read.

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  12. I have looked at the site and without a doubt LOVE the "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" book and series. My children adore these books.

    lee anne fleming
    leeannefleming@aol.com

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  13. Oh there are so many books I'd love to get! i've been looking at the site for too long, I'd have to flip a coin to decide. :)

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  14. Some products I would love to get from Little One Books are these book titles:
    Tea With Milk
    Gossie
    The Red Book
    AND
    Global Babies!
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  15. I follow your blog with GFC!
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  16. I signed up for the Little One Books newsletter!
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  17. I'd like to get Jamberry and Goodnight Moon!
    reynoldsmommy at gmail dot com

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  18. Follow you on GFC! (Ashley R)
    reynoldsmommy at gmail dot com

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  19. "Like" Little One Books on FB! (Ashley Reynolds)
    reynoldsmommy at gmail dot com

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  20. "Like" you on FB! (Ashley Reynolds)
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  21. Follow Little One Books on twitter! (@reynoldsmom)
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  22. Signed up for their newsletter!
    reynoldsmommy at gmail dot com

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