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Eric Carle Can Illustrate YOUR Photo Book!

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Photo books and personalized photo products just keep getting better!

Kodak Gallery has recently launched an exclusive line of photo books and cards featuring the illustrations of the iconic children’s author, Eric Carle.

Now, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear, The Very Lonely Firefly and more, can become part of your children’s own stories, illustrating your personalized Kodak Gallery photo books and cards.

Uploading and creating your Kodak Gallery products is simple and fast. I used to scrapbook – but since blogging took over my life, I no longer have time! So for me, photo books are the perfect solution.

It is so exciting when I see new options like these incredibly gorgeous Eric Carle products. Imagine my kids’ photos alongside The Very Hungry Caterpillar. That is too cool.

If you want to win $50.00 to spend creating your own Eric Carle photo books and cards masterpieces, just leave a comment at this post.

We will have two winners, each receiving $50.00 Kodak Gallery gift cards – so check back October 18th to see if you are one of our two winners. This contest is open to US and Canadian residents.

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  1. Eric Carle is like a family member, we all read his books together. so having him illustrate our photobook…sounds just about perfect.

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  2. I am so excited about the new Kodak books with Eric Carle. As a new teacher, I was fascinated by Mr. Carle’s story and intricate details in his books. He has inspired me to begin a long overdue children’s book that has been building notes and sketches on my work table. An amazing gift to children and adults alike…the simplest things, are the finer things:)

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  3. I like the idea of photos being showcased and put together by someone who knows what they are doing. I just do not have the time to do it myself.

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  6. I need too to find an easy way to showcase my photos not scrapbooking and I think this is the best way.

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  10. Since I am an elementary teacher, I LOVE Eric Carle’s books!! I love these kinds of contests that award something you can actually use and appreciate! Thank you so much for an opportunity to win!

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  18. That is a really nice book! I’ve used Kodak Gallery in the past to order coffee mugs for grandparents. They came out very nicely.

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  29. Eric Carle has always been my favorite children’s author, and my children love him too…I am so glad to see Kodak gallery offering such a wonderful product!

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  34. Oh my gosh! The grandkids love his books and pics. They would be thrilled to see their pics along with his in their own books.

    Thanks for the contest.

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  36. Our family loves making photo books together. The younger children can’t wait to see the end product. This is perfect prize for any family. Thanks for the chance to win!

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  41. Photobooks are a christmas gift to all the grandparents and with the newest one just born they are all expecting a cute book of the two grandkids… This would be so adorable not only sweet pictures of the grandkids but a blast of the past for them from Eric Carle’s art…

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  44. Eric Carle is not only an amazing artist, but a great storyteller. I think Kodak adding this to their site should be wonderful for photos of children. I am excited!

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  46. I love Eric Carle’s notecards for Kodak Gallery, I didn’t know that you could do photo books too! I want to try one!

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  47. Oh, I could really use this and would enjoy it tremendously! My daughter has photos of my granddaughters in the Kodak Gallery and I’ve not gotten around to getting copies of the pictures. This would be a wonderful way to do it!

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  53. Not only does my children love Eric Carle but, I do as well. I introduced his books to my children as babies and they have grown to enjoy his books. Eric Carle is amazing, I’d love to win this prize. Thank you for the contest.

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  61. I’ve always loved eric carl, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar was, and still is my favorite picture book.

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  77. For the last few years I have used Shutterfly for my photobooks and I have to be honest that they really need to update their backgrounds. I just got a glimps of them from the video of Kodaks and I would LOVE to put together a new photobook with their backgrounds.
    I really do not have time in my life to do scrapbooking, love the look of it but I know it would turn into an unfinished product if I even tried.
    Photobooking is a blast, so easy to do and I take hundreds of pictures. Before they just sat unlooked at in my computer until I discovered photobooking.
    My daughter is a senior, I would love to put together a book of her last year so she can look back on it with great memories.
    Thank you for the chance to win this nice prize and GOOD LUCK to everyone entering.

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  81. I have hundreds of photos on the Kodak gallery, and would love this wonderful gift to print out some of them for gifts. Thanks for this giveaway!

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  86. The option to use Eric Carle illustrations is exciting! 🙂 Thanks for having this contest so I could learn about this possibility AND even have a chance to enter a giveaway!

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  91. I thought the last photo book I made was nice, but this would be great! It’s exciting! Thanks for the contest.

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  99. I would love a Kodak gift certificate, I have so many digital photos I haven’t done anything with, and so many of them would make great Christmas gifts for my family.

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  112. Thank you for letting me know this exists. My neice collects Eric Carle books and this photo book would be an ideal gift. Incidentally, I used to live in Western, MA and Eric Carle was one of the local celebrities there along with James Taylor, Arlo Guthrie and the “time to make the donuts” guy from the Dunkin Donuts commercials.

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  120. Oh my kids LOVE Eric Carle books!! We sing Brown Bear, Brown Bear every night before bed and also have pretty much every book of his. We’d LOVE to win this!!!

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  121. After eighteen months, I have over ten thousand pictures of my baby boy sitting around on my computer. We definitely need to start making photo books.

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  122. I have so many photos I could use to make this photo book. My photos don’t get printed like they should, but are on my computer. This would be a good way to save special memories. Thanks for the contest.

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  124. I just received my first Photobook that i made and i love it!! I also enjoyed making it and thought it was alot of fun!!

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  128. I really love to try this as a photo albulm, I have soo many pics that need put together and printed, this would help SOOOO MUCHHH. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  133. I have a BUNCH of pics that I want hard copies of, It’s gonna be expensive. I recently scanned all my grandmothers old photos. Very cool!

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  138. Great giveaway! I make photobooks for my kids for their birthdays to see how much they have grown and done throughout the year.

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  163. I love taking pictures. I am so excited by online photo books. They have enabled me to showcase my photos in a wonderful format that doesn’t take up much room in my overcluttered home 😉

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  186. that is so wonderful. I love how they are always coming out with wonderful new products, it makes gift giving for the family a breeze. I love Eric Carle, have to create one of those photo books for my boys.

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  187. I am a huge Eric Carle fan. I used to love doing units on him when I was teaching 1st grade. Now I share them with my kids. Thanks for the great giveaway 🙂

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  191. What a great idea – I can think of a few grandparents who would LOVE a book of my little one, illustrated with beautiful drawings! Great giveaway!

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  210. Cool! My girls all love Eric Carle books… I usually use Shutterfly for my photo books, but I will definitely look into Kodak Gallery and these new pages.

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  230. I love uploading photos and making neat gifts during Christmas time for my family members.
    Thanks for the contest!

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  237. I made one photobook for my daughter 2 years ago and she absolutely loves it. I have to hide it away (so it doesn’t get worn) and bring it out every now and then. Now, I’m imagining one that’s illustrated by Eric Carle…that’ll be a gem!

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  243. Thanks for this contest.
    I would love to start doing this kind of photo work ,as it is my kids and I have plenty of pictures to place in a photo book.

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  252. This would be so wonderful! I’m always wanting to be sure to get my photos off of my camera and out where I can see and enjoy them!

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  257. I just discovered these photo books the other day. What a cute idea! My daughter loves Brown Bear, Brown Bear. This would make for a wonderful keepsake!! m_huston(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  260. Oh WOW…that is so cool…Timothy loves Brown Bear Brown Bear….it is his favorite book…and his big sister Jillian…it was the first book she “read” to him!

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  267. You know what I especially love about these books? I love that they are a GREAT way to encourage children to read, and anything that does that is a fabulous idea in my book…pun IS intended..LOL!!! GREAT giveaway!!

    Thanks so much!
    Michele R.(CA)
    [email protected]

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  273. My best friend is a kinder teacher and she always does a huge Eric Carle author study. I would love to win this for her to use with her son!

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  279. Eric Carle has always been one of my favorite illustrators. I knew long before I even had kids, that our first baby’s room would be done in The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We were doubly blessed to have boy/girl twins so the theme was perfect! Gender neutral and my son is our ‘caterpillar’ and my daughter is our ‘butterfly.’ I love their room and love all of Eric Carle’s creations!1 I’d love to win this so I could create a book from their first year.

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  281. Eric Carle is one of my favorite illustrators – my favorite Mr. Rogers field trip was when he went to Eric Carle’s studio… fabulous!

    Debbie

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  283. My kids LOVE their Eric Carle books. I would love to be able to incorporate their photos w/his great illustrations! What a neat idea.

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  286. How cool! Eric Carle was one of my favorite when I taught and I already read to my 14-month old daughter. How great would it be to capture her first year with those illustrations!

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  294. Amazingly beautiful! What an absolutely fantastic way to display your favorite photos! Now I feel like re-doing all my old albums! (Greaaat!)

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  317. OH my goodness I MUST win this! I have signed up for a zillion contest here and never won so this might be it for me????? I hope so!

    Great idea!!

    God bless-
    Amanda

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  324. Oh this is AWESOME! I was wanting to do photo books for Christmas this year! And Eric Carle is one of my very favorite author/illustrators 🙂

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  326. I LOVE Eric Carle’s books!! My son has a bunch of his books and he is only 7 weeks old! Anyway, Eric Carle’s photo books sound so cute…I’d love to make a book wiith his pictures!

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