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Giveaway Winners

Drumroll please! And the winners of the tickets for four to a showing of "ParaNorman" Saturday morning at 10am in Bayer's Lake are: Peterman, Cindy, Tina Winters, and Kelly. Winners were chosen using a random number generator. Watch your email, winners, for the passes, which will come through today from Alliance Films. Thanks for entering, everyone!

Giveaway: Tickets for Four to the Movie ParaNorman

Alliance Films has offered Crooked House readers in Nova Scotia a chance to win free tickets for a family of four to a pre-screening of the 3D animated film "ParaNorman"  at 10am, August 11 at Empire Theatres in Bayer's Lake.

In "ParaNorman," (from the makers of the Academy Award-nominated "Coraline") a small town comes under siege by zombies. Who can it call? Only misunderstood local boy Norman, who is able to speak with the dead. In addition to the zombies, he'll have to take on ghosts, witches and, worst, of all, grown-ups, to save his town from a centuries-old curse. But this young ghoul whisperer may find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits. The film is rated PG13. From the trailer, I'd guess it might be most appropriate for older kids and tweens.

I have four sets of four tickets to give away! Count 'em, FOUR! Readers, the odds are in your favour! To enter, please leave a comment below this post. The winners will be chosen on Friday, August 10th.

Winner of the When I Was Small Giveaway

And the winner of last Monday's When I Was Small giveaway here on crooked house is Amanda. Congratulations Amanda! (The winner was chosen by randomizer.org.)

When I Was Small Giveaway

Sylvie and I just got the best package in the mail -- two copies of our favourite children's author Sara O'Leary's new book When I Was Small, illustrated by Julie Morstad. It is the latest in their lovely series of books about Henry, which include When You Were Small and Where You Came From. In When I Was Small, it is Henry's mother's turn to talk about the things she did when she was very, very small, including sleeping in a mitten:

This book is just as sweet, charming, and hilarious as the others -- it is the perfect bedtime book. And if you act! fast! you can win a copy. Just leave a comment and your email address below and we will choose a random winner next Monday, January 16th. The book is not yet readily available in the states so if you live there and just can't wait to get your hands on a copy, please do enter. I am happy to send it anywhere in the world.

You can see more pageviews of the book on the Buy Olympia site - Americans can certainly order it from there. And you could always order it from Amazon.ca or Chapters.

There are also more gorgeous images from the book at the publisher, Simply Read 's, blog. Love that daisy for a sunhat!

 

 

Drum Roll Please

Melissa Wilkins of the blog Making Things Up is the winner of the draw for my copy of Practically Perfect in Every Way (and the shrinky dink elephant pendant). Thanks for entering, Melissa!