One thing that I love about books is that they are so readily available. With Barnes and Noble and Amazon still offering guaranteed Christmas delivery (not to mention gift cards!), with the wide variety of books out there — instructive or enjoyable or beautiful — books are appropriate for so many on your holiday lists.
The folks at Simon and Schuster have put together a great giveaway package that will go out to one of our winners (U.S. or Canada residents). The winner will get one copy of EACH of these books.
If you are still looking for ideas to fill some stockings, consider these books for kids of all ages:
For the Family:
Fablehaven Boxed Set
By Brandon Mull
For the Little Ones:
Snow Bugs
By David A. Carter (Lauren’s review at 5 Minutes for Books)
Olivia Acts Out (Jennifer’s review at 5 Minutes for Books)
By Jodie Shepherd
For Tween Girls:
Dork Diaries (My 11-year-old daughter Amanda thought this one was pretty cute)
By Rachel Renee Russell
For Tween Boys:
Pendragon Boxed Set
By D. J. MacHale
For Teens:
Robert Pattinson Fated for Fame
By Mel Williams
Taylor Launter Overnight Sizzlin’ Sensation
By Mel Williams
The Hollow
By Jessica Verday
For Teens — and Adults who are young at heart!
Leviathan (Since we are fans of Westerfeld’s Uglies series, I’m looking forward to this one)
By Scott Westerfeld
Night World No. 1
By L. J. Smith
*Disclosure: I did not receive copies of these books to review, but Simon and Schuster is generously providing a copy of all of them to one of you.
The winner will get a copy of each book listed, but as your entry, leave a comment saying which book interests you most, and who in your life would appreciate it.
We will not run a column next week, so we will leave this open for two weeks, announcing the winner in our column on January 4.
The winner of the beautiful Andrew Zuckerman books Bird and Creature is #34 Wendy M.
Written by book blogger Jennifer Donovan, who blogs at Snapshot and manages 5 Minutes for Books.
I think the Pendragon set would be most appreciated by my son. I think the dork diaries my daughter would love.
Looks like all good books!
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The books that interest me the most are the Pendragon set because I think I’d really enjoy them. Thanks!
My niece would like the Dork Diaries, as ‘dork’ seems to be a large part of her vocabulary these days!
I think my nephew would love the Pendragon set!
Thanks
Nicole
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The Snow Bugs book interests me the most because I have been a big fan of the “bugs” books for years.
The Pendragon box set interestes me the most becuase i think my son would really like it.
I would especially love the Fablehaven box set. It is one of my favorite series.
My daughter would especially like the Olivia book, and she would no doubt grow into the others (and I would enjoy reading a lot of the books on this list!).
This is a difficult choice for me, as I am quick to read my ‘children’s’ books as well as they are! 🙂 I bought the first 3 books of the “Warriors” series for my 9-year-old for Christmas (as well as the classic “Tom Sawyer”) and he is eagerly gulping them down while my teen is busy with Brsinger and looking forward to reading the “Graceling” book she received. The book(s) that I am most interested in (because I think we ALL will enjoy them) are the “Fablehaven” and “Pendragon” sets. 🙂
I’d love the Fablehaven book set, I’ve got the first two, and would love the chance to get a set and pass on my first two books.
And my kids would love Olivia
My daughter loves Oliva and playing pretend, so Olivia Acts Out would be perfect for her.
Olivia rules! And, I love to read to my kids constantly so this set would be a great addition.
My three granddaughters, ages 2, 5, and 8, would love Olivia Acts Out. We already have Olivia books and love them all.
Olivia sounds like the perfect book for our littlest angel. Thank you for a fine giveaway.
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My son would love Snow Bugs. The title alone has two of his favorite things!
The Fablehaven books would be enjoyed the most by myself and my niece!
I would love to give my grandson either Snow Bugs for his January birthday, or Olivia Acts Out.
Thank you for this opportunity!
My step sisters would love the Dork Diaries!
I would love to win this set!!!
Olivia Acts Out for my daughter – Loved the review!
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We posted about this giveaway at Winning Readings: http://winningreadings.blogspot.com/2009/12/various-family-friendly-titles.html
I would love to win The Dork Diaries for my 10 year old daughter.
My son would especially like the Fablehaven set!
I think my whole family would enjoy the Fablehaven Boxed Set
Olivia acts out- My dd loves these books
Tons of booklovers in my family. We would love to read all these books.
My daughters’ birthday is coming up and she willbe turning three. She would love the Olivia Acts Out Book the most!
Definitely the Taylor Launter Overnight Sizzlin’ Sensation book – my 13 year old will love this.
My kids would enjoy Snow Bugs. Looks like a cute book.
I think the Pendragon series would be loads of fun for me to read over the holiday – light, easy, and engaging.
My niece would love Snow Bugs!
Great giveaway, thanks!
Happy Holiday!
All the books would be read by someone in my family. My 9 yoa girl would really like Dork Diaries. Thanks.
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Pendragon looks like it would be great. I’ve read a few fantasy books before but would like to read more.
any of them would be nice my husband loves to read
I’m most interested in The Hollow but my daughter would most like Olivia Acts Out.
We love, love, love the Fablehaven series and are planning to read it aloud to the family. We would also be interested in the Pendragon series (even though we only have girls!) Thanks for entering us!
I am interested in all of them! My entire family loves to read. The Snow Bugs will be wonderful for my twin nephews, my youngest sister would love the Hollow and the books on the Twilight characters.
Olivia Acts Out
for my girls as they would love it
What a great giveaway
I know the girls would love Olivia Acts Out, they love that show
I think the kids and I would enjoy reading the Fablehaven series together; I have recently added it to our TBR list for 2010! :O)
Olivia Acts Out, most definitely! My daughter is an Olivia fan and we’ve yet to read this one.
WOW! You and S & S ROCK!I am a middle school librarian (6TH-8TH GRADES) and love that you are promoting books! I too have Levithan on my night stand table to read SOON! I would love to share any of the books with any of my students but I am thinking that Snug Bugs would be perfect for my family! Thanks again for promoting reading!
Olivia Acts Out for my 3-year-old twin grandaughters! One can never have too much Olivia. Moo.
I would love to read Fablehaven with my kids!
Snow Bugs and Olivia Acts Out would be great for my son! Thanks for the chance to win and enjoy the holiday season!
My sister would love the Twilight themed books about Robert and Taylor. I would be happy to give my toddler the book Snow Bugs. 🙂
I love love love the Fablehaven Series. I would love to share those books with my husband and children (when they’re old enough to read!) They are fabulous!
I would love The Hollow By Jessica Verday and my niece would love Night World No. 1 By L. J. Smith
Snow Bugs sounds the most fun – I’m a subscriber by email.
Please enter us, I have lots of kids in my life to share these with!
fablehaven – totally want to read those!!!! oh, and i might share with my 8 year old 😉
Snow Bugs looks like a great book! My son would love it!
The Hollow is the book I am most interested in for my Niece
I like the SNOW BUGS would be a great ‘curl up on the couch & read with mommy’ one. Cute!
The Fablehaven books would be the perfect thing to read together with my grandchildren. I will be taking an extended trip to visit and this would be wonderful. (All of them would)
I like Olivia Acts Out – for my 3 year old daughter who now goes to preschool & has learned so many new & wonderful things! (good & BAD)
We would love the Fablehaven books – we’ve been wanting to read them as a family this winter.
Wow, the cousins would love the snow bugs story! Thanks for the giveaway. Merry Christmas!
LEVIATHAN is the book I’m most interested in. My teenage grandchildren would love it!
My 3 yr old twins love watching Olivia! My little girl loves to have books read to her! the other night we found them sitting in our guest bedroom , aka “papa’s Bed”, reading their little Bibles. It was precious! I am grateful that they enjoy books at such a young age. What a great giveaway. Merry Christmas!
I think we’d all like the Pendragon set. Thanks!
Snowbug for sure, this sounds like something my daughter would just LOVE. She is obsessed with books!
SNOW BUGS….my kids would love this one! Thanks!
Olivia Acts out would be great for my toddlers. They LOVE to read and any books they can get their hands on they will run to me and ask, “Read.. Read..”
my son would LOVE the Pendragon set!! It’s so his thing right now
either of the two “little ones” would go straight to my son! he LOVES books!
I think that my son would enjoy Snow Bugs the most!
My oldest grandson would love the Pendragon boxed set. He has really started enjoying reading and has been asking to read some of my books. I think he would thoroughly enjoy this. Thank you!
Snow Bugs! We love snow, we love bugs and we definitely love pop up books in a little kid household. 🙂 Thanks for the opportunity to enter to win
All these books sound wonderful. We would probably be most interested in Snow Bugs as my children love snow. My 3.5 year-old daughter would probably be the one who would love this book the most. Thanks for the chance!
Leviathan, our guy read this over the summer, he enjoys reading books numerous times. I know he would enjoy having his own copy of Leviathan
I love books and my kids love Olivia! I would love to win this giveaway. Thanks for the opportunity.
My daughter would love snow bugs. She loves those books!
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My oldest daughter who is 11 would love the Dork Diaries but my youngest 2 (one boy and one girl), I think, would love the snow bugs. My whole family loves books and we read often.
Snow Bugs interests me most. My daughter would love it. Please enter me. Thanks!
I am a subscriber!
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Please enter me in the giveaway.
I am most interested in “Snow Bugs.” I know that my little boy would love it!
Dork Diaries interests me the most. I’d love to gift this to my niece.
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My son would like the Pendragon boxed set. Thanks for hosting!
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My 11 year old son would love the Pendragon books – and my 13 year old daughter would drool over the Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner ones. 🙂 Great giveaway – thanks!
This is an awesome giveaway! I might possibly die of happiness if I won…
The Fablehaven boxed set interests me most but seriously there are so many in there I would love to read! My little one would love the books in the kid category. 🙂 Thanks!
Olivia Acts Out for my daughter in law’s niece.
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Leviathan and Fablehaven interest me most. My niece and younger brother would love a few of these though.
My favourite is Snow Bugs.
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I would like to read leviathan. I would love to read it
Olivia Acts Out is my fave, and my daughter Emily would love it
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My 7 yeard old would love the Fablehaven boxed set the most. She loves to read!
I would love to get Snow Bugs for grandson,Logan. Thanks for this great opportunity.
My daughter would love “Olivia Acts Out.” She likes the TV series and all the other Olivia books. Interested to see how the tie-in books compare to the originals.
We love books! We’d love to win some new ones!
I like the two books under “little ones” – my husband and I are trying for a baby, so these would be great to put up 🙂
I have been curious about the Fablehaven series for a while now, so this would be what I am most interested in!
I subscribe!
My children would love the Olivia Acts Out title — we love Olivia. 🙂
Thanks,
Megret
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my little guys would love the kiddos books and I have a brother and sister who would be interested in the teen books!
My kids would love Olivia Acts Out, but I would love to get Leviathan! 🙂 And then the Dork Diaries would go to my sister-in-law for her 6th grade class library.
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Snow Bugs for my kids. They’d love it.
I think I’d like the Fablehaven set for reading aloud. Plus, our little one would love Snow bugs.
Dork Diaries for sure! My daughter is 11 and loves books like that!
I think my son would love the snow bugs book.
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I would love the snow bugs book for my daughter.
My 11 year old daughter would probably really enjoy Dork Diaries. Thanks for the opportunity!
Snow Bugs sounds like the perfect book for my 2 year old boy.
my family would love this set! and the few we couldn’t use would go to my nieces.
The Pendragon boxed set for our boys! Awesome!
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My daughter would love the Dork diaries!
We’d love the Fablehaven set to read as a family. I’ve heard it’s a good series. Thanks!
I think my son would enjoy the Fablehaven books.
My girls would love Olivia Acts Out because they love Olivia!!
Fantastic giveaway!! There are 2 that jump out at me the most: the Pendragon series for my tween boy, and Snow Bugs for my 3-year-old boy.
Thanks for the chance to win!
[Pick me! Pick me!]
Robert Pattinson Fated for Fame
By Mel Williams
and
Taylor Launter Overnight Sizzlin’ Sensation
By Mel Williams.
My teen is enamored with then since Twilight came out.
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My little guy would love the Pendragon set.
Oh! oh! oh! We could use so many of those! The only ones we wouldn’t need personally are the ones for “little ones,” and it’s not like we don’t have friends that would love those!!
I would love Leviathan, but my little girl is more on the Olivia level! They would all get read tho!
Well they all look great, but LEVIATHAN is one that I’m interested in! I think my middle grade daughter would like to have a copy of DORK DIARIES.
What an awesome giveaway!
My daughter is a tween, so she’d probably like the “Dork Diaries”.
My son is just turned into a teenager, but I’m sure he’d still enjoy the “Pendragon Boxed Set”
and would like the “Robert Pattinson Fated for Fame”.
Thanks for this chance to win.
“Dork Diaries” sounds funny. My daughter would love to read it!
Thanks for the chance to win! My son’s been eyeing the Fablehaven books…
What a wonderful selection of books! I know my daughter would really enjoy Snow Bugs!
Snow Bugs By David A. Carter sounds like fun (he always has such engaging books) and my little one would love to add it to his library!
Olivia Acts Out – perfect for my daughters!
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The hollow is what I’m most interested in but my kids would love snow bugs.