OT: Book Contest

This was sent by my library system consultant. You can win free books for the kids in your state!

Nann

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"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" Helps Cheerios Create a Hunger for Books! Cheerios (R) has teamed up with children's book author and illustrator, Eric Carle, to launch a specially illustrated box to promote an online book donation challenge and "Give a Child a Book Week" which is June 10-16, 2007. Cheerios printed five million of the Eric Carle illustrated boxes which are expected to be on store shelves now through early summer while supplies last. Cheerios will donate 100,000 copies of Carle's book The Tiny Seed to nonprofit groups that support children in need in five states. The states receiving the books will be determined by the number of votes which are earned by correct answers on the online quiz featuring children's books. As of this writing, IL is in sixth place, so get voting! There is no limit to the number of times you can vote. Go to

. Voting ends on June 16, 2007. Over the past five years, Cheerios, through their Spoonfuls of Stories program, has donated more that $2 million to the nonprofit organization, First Book, whose single mission is to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. Cheerios has also given away more than 25 million books inside boxes of Cheerios cereal.