“Itty and Bitty” Book Giveaway
This week’s giveaways are children’s books from one of my favorite series!
We are blessed to live in a really great town and I first discovered the “Itty and Bitty” series at our local bookstore, the Book Carriage. They routinely have guest authors come by to read their latest works. Nancy Carpentar-Czerw, the author of the Itty and Bitty series, brings these really sweet and gentle horses by the bookstore a couple times a year to say “Hi” to their fans.
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My daughter loves the horses, petting them, talking to them, talking about them for the next week while I like the rhymes in the “Itty and Bitty” books. It is so easy with preschool to focus on the beginning of a word, the first letter of a word, rather than working on words as a whole. The way that Nancy has created her rhymes is great for phonetic learning. I am thrilled she has graciously offered to sponsor this week’s giveaway.
What we are giving away:
- Itty & Bitty: Two Miniature Horses, hardcover. This is the first book in the series it introduces these two adorable horses.
- Itty & Bitty: On the Road, hardcover. I just love that Nancy is from rural Pennsylvania, we are both transplanted Texans! This book chronicles Itty and Bitty in their travels from Pennsylvania, to New York and home again.
- Itty & Bitty: Friends on the Farm, hardcover. This book is my daughter’s favorite. It got lots of farm animals in it, need I say more.
- A Toddler-sized T-shirt of Itty & Bitty driving off in a scooter. Sure to put a smile in every preschoolers face – horses aren’t supposed to ride in scooters!
- and a lovely tote bag, it has waterproofing and a cup section, making it great for trips out and about.
Check out Itty & Bitty’s website for excerpts from the books and games for your kids to play.
Ways to win:
Leave a comment here telling us one of your favorite learning activities, be sure to include a way to reach you if you are the winner!
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* QM has not received compensation in any form for hosting this giveaway, that may or may not be indicative of future giveaways. Winners are chosen at random.
Last weeks giveaway was sponsored by Jadematter, Michael was the most recent winner. For details of that contest go here.
I’m not familiar with this book series. I’m sure my kids would love it. For the longest time my daughter loved to play Caterpillar Race Game. It helps children identify colors and learn about taking turns. We bought ours from discovery toys.
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One of our favorite learning activities is reading together. My kids are 2 and 4, and they love to sit on my lap while we read and talk about the story.
I am always impressed by how much they understand and can remember from the stories.
We haven’t read these books before, but they sound like fun!
The book seams pleasant, however, it would be a bit nicer if it focused around Pennsylvania instead of Texas! We have horses too!
My daughter is 5 and learning how to spell…our favorite activity right now is reading! We try to add a new word to her spelling list every few days!
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We read a huge variety of books including science subjects. My four year old is such a sponge. It’s amazing what they can pick up.
She would love the books. She’s very interested in farm life since visiting one in Sept.
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Our family’s favorite activity is reading! We read Shel Silverstein out loud to each other after supper!
We love to read, we also love to visit lots of places little field trips and learn what is to be had. We went to the duck pond recently and learned about the differences between the coots and the ducks.
We have several Jump Start CDs for the computer that are great!
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We love to read together but also, just after my son’s 2nd birthday, he started this game where we look for the letters of the alphabet everywhere (ie, the lines in a parking lot look like an H and the swing set at the park is an A)
Our family is a reading together family. Do coloring together-though I have to admit, the kids color better than me
One of my favorite learning activities is scavenger hunts! My kids love to go on the search for something, and learn about new plants and bugs!
i love to read with my boys, i not only read the words but i ask them questions about the pictures. my boys also love animals so we go to the zoo often
One of my favorite learning activities right now is a memory game with my daughter. She has to match the words that rhyme since she is working on Rhyming at school. She loves it!!
We homeschool and one of our favorite things to do is to listen to a story on CD and then the kids draw a picture and write a few sentences about their picture.
We LOVE reading in our house. I heard that it keeps your brain young
Our favorite learning activity is reading — and a trip to story at the library is a special treat.
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When my grandchildren come over to visit our favorite learning activity is reading! I love to read and try to get them all involved too!
These books are too cute~My granddaughter would love them! Thanks for the chance
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I am not familiar with these books, but I have 1 learning to read and 1 just about to learn to read and would love some new books!
Heidi
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Reading of course. But also following natural curiousity. Nature walks lead to lots of questions!
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My fav toddler activities are the online games. There are a lot of really good educational ones that my son loves to play.
My kids enjoy scavenger hunts. It is fun outside and they learn about different plants, trees, and critters we have living around here. I like that it makes them stop and observe what is around them!
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We love to play school, but as Mom Im never the teacher, it is really a learning game for my gilrs & they don’t even know it !!!!!!
I love to do all kinds of science experiments with my little boy. From magnets, and volcanoes to crystals and dyes, we have a fun time setting them up and watching the magic happen!
My grandchildren love to read and one of our favorite things to do is after we read a story they all get to change the ending and make it their own. Its so wonderful hearing the stories they come up with. Thank you for the wonderful giveaway!
I tweeted the giveaway
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Reading is definitely a favorite learning activity for me and my 6 mo. old son…I also do a lot of talking about colors, shapes, etc. throughout our day!
one of my fav learning tips is to read read read to your kids. they learn so much!!!
I’ve read to my son since before he was a year old. He became an avid reader!
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My favorite to time for learning activities is in the car. Turn off the radio and ro rhyming or simpe adding.
One of our favorite learning activities involves reading and play doh…a favorite right now in our house. We are currently stuck on reading anything that has to do with the alphabet, such as Chicka Chicka Boom Boom or Dr. Seuss ABC. We have alphabet cookie cutters that we take out while going through a book and find matches according to what page we are on, and we always end up making the alphabet with the playdoh. We even try to form the letters without using the cutters. Last week we made our own pumpkin scented playdoh so that incoorporated cooking and measuring into our activity time.
Thanks for the chance!!
My little guy isn’t quite two, so our favorite learning activity is singing. He picks up so quickly on things when they are put to song.
These are so cute!
My kids just love to read! I guess it is our favorite learning activity. I also have some kids CD’s I like to listen to with them that give you instructions about doing different silly kids dances.
I love book-related activities. Like we’ve been reading The Three Billy Goats book over and over, so we made horns out of construction paper, made finger puppets and play-acted the story, did science experiments with bridges, and tried goat’s milk.
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We posted about this at Winning Readings: http://winningreadings.blogspot.com/2009/10/itty-bitty-books.html
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We like pretend play and crafts! I hadn’t heard of these books…thanks!
We like to make up songs like you would hear in The Sound of Music, etc- spontaneous songs about what is going on. It is fun and teaches creativity!
Leanne: Pumpkin scented playdough? Care to share that recipe? :–) We would love to try that at our house!!
One of our favorite learning activities is making crafts!
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All we do right now is repeat everything….she is still learning
My little one is 2 1/2. One of our favorite activites is reading before bed at night. We’ll take turns “reading” the books she picks out from her shelf. Then, we’ll choose a page in the book and she’ll tell me the letters that are on that page. Thanks for the chance to win this prize- I know that she would LOVE it!
One of my favorite learning activities is doing a match game to learn.
THANKS!
My great granddaughter loves books and I gave her a electronic reading-spelling game last year for Christmas. and she loves it.
One of our favorite learning activities is a fishing game my son had where we would drop the line onto the fish. Each fish had a letter on it. We would keep going until we could come up with a word for the letter.
Thank you for the great giveaway!
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I posted a link to your giveaway on my left blog side bar.
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Since my daughter is learning to read and getting sight words from school, we like to print the words on magnetic paper and hang them on the fridge. This way she can always see the new words and make all kinds of sentences with them.
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Probably reading together is the best one around our house
My favorite learning activity is playing the Memory game. I have always been a memorizer and I have a photographic memory, now I have discovered my 5 yr old daughter also possesses this gift and is oh so much more talented than I.
I stumbled this giveaway on StumbleUpon
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I dugg this on DIGG (diggndizzybloom)
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Shared this in Google reader, not quite sure how to post the link but I hope this works.
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we have circle time at our house!
I submitted this to Tagza
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Our favorite learning activities are reading and games. We also enjoy sidewalk chalk outside–great for learning letters and colors.
Our children love the Leap Pad! I think they would enjoy these books! This series is new to us. Thanks for having this giveaway!
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One of our favorite learning activities is learning through books and crafts. Books, narration, crafts…books narration, crafts! lol. My kids love it! I have seen an increase their writing and reading skills since implementing narration and living books.
Our whole family loves to read. I have never seen this series before but they look neat and my younger siblings love horses. Please enter me in the giveaway.
Thanks!
One of my favorite learning activities is playing board games. They teach so many skills, from numeracy to being a good sport.
this is going to sound funny but my girls and I play with whatever they are learning at the time, sounds of letters, abc, adding, spellin and so on. The game is I am trying to ‘trick’ them into giving the wrong answer. I am not really tricking them as I give very straight forward problems that they can answer or almost answer. I do pretend that I hope they can’t answer. they are so excited when they get it right so I give them another I pretend I think they can’t answer. By the end they are giggling as I pretend to get more and more frustrated that I can’t trick them.
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Please enter me in your contest. I have never heard of these but they sound very interesting and my children love to read.
Thanks!
Great giveaway!
Would love to win this! 
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Favorite learning activity is just walking around and showing them stuff. We prefer active interaction versus sedentary. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway.
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