ES6tLMQ0PXfdqC9-18bZz9xUQ9E The Life Of A Coast Guard Wife: Book Review: There Was Once A Potato & Giveaway

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Book Review: There Was Once A Potato & Giveaway


PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Have you ever wondered...
What goes on behind your refrigerator's door closed door? All is well on Maple Street. Te confident and rather cocky Clamatoe Potato and his pals are chillin' until one day Alakazam Yam moves in and turns their icebox world upside down...

PRODUCT DETAILS
Publish Date: December, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4327-3871-6
Format: 8.5x11 Color Paperback
Author: Ebony Haywood
Illustrated by: Bobbi Switzer

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ebony Haywood is a poet. In 1996, her poem, There Was Once a Potato, won first place in the Los Angeles branch of the NAACP ACT-SO poetry competition. She lives in Los Angeles, California, where she is currently working on her next book. She enjoys writing clever and humerous poetry in the tradition of her favorite authors,  Dr. Suess and Shel Silverstein.

MY THOUGHTS
As you already know I have 2 boys ages 4 and 5. They LOVED this book! Everything was big and bright which kept their attention! Plus, the rhyming excited them. They are just starting to ask about things rhyming and this helped them out a lot. I read it the first time, and they automatically made me read it again!  Also, it was simple enough for them to understand the meaning of the book. I asked them what it was about and they were able to tell me without any trouble. The book had a really great message. It basically says not to fight, just work together. Having 2 boys, so close in age, this was great for them!

MY RATING
10/10
I found nothing to complain about!

BUY IT
The book can be found on Ebony's site, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble!

WIN IT
Ebony has kindly offered to give away a copy of There Once Was A Potato to one of my lucky readers!

**Mandatory Entry**

Leave me a comment giving me the best rhyme you've got! Come on don't be shy! I wont laugh...too much! :)  Please be sure to leave your email address in the first entry, or that it's visible on your profile.
*You MUST do the mandatory entry! All bonus entries will be deleted if it's not done first!*

**Bonus Entries**
{Leave separate comments for each entry}

1. Follow me on Twitter {1 entry}
2. Follow Ebony on Twitter {1 entry}
3. Follow Ebony's blog via GFC {1 entry}
4. Subscribe to my blog {1 entry}
5. Grab my NEW button (old one doesn't count) and leave a link to where it's at {2 entries}
6. Follow my publicly on google friend connect {2 entry}
7. Blog about this giveaway and leave me a link to the post {5 entries}
8. Enter another one of my giveaways {1 entry per giveaway}
9. Add my blog to your blog roll {1 entry}
10. Tweet about this giveaway {3 tweets per day} Please don't tweet them all together! You can use this:

@USCGWifey is giving away a copy of There Once Was A Potato from @EbonyHaywood ends 4/23  http://bit.ly/cPtgu9

**Rules**
•Giveaway ends Friday, April 23, 2010 at 12 (noon) CST
•Winner will be chosen via Random.Org., and contacted my email
•Winner will have 48 hours to respond to the email or another winner will be chosen
•Open to US & Canada

Don't forget to thank a member of our MILITARY!

31 comments:

mandala said...

Ok here is my attempt at poetry:

I love potatoes and tomatoes
I read Socrates and some Plato
I don’t play the Tobago because of my lumbago
But I sure would love to win “Once there was a Potato”

mandalarctic@gmail.com

(I better win this for at least being brave to be the first :))

mandala said...

Sorry here is the correct version of the poem:

I love potatoes and tomatoes
I read Socrates and some Plato
I don’t play in Tobago because of my lumbago
But I sure would love to win “Once there was a potato”

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Linda Kish said...

If I only took the time
To learn to rhyme....

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Coolestmommy said...

I wish I could write
A poem tonight,
Words to help me win
This book for my kin.

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phxbne said...

Blogs are great
Blogs are (mostly) good
I would read blogs all day if I could

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Anonymous said...

It would take a day,
to come up with right the words to say.
I would do whatever it took,
to be a winner of this book.
debp
twoofakind12@yahoo.com

Steph said...

I wish I could rhyme
I wish I could write
But I don't have the time
to do this right!


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