Cheerios: New Author contest and giveaway CLOSED

Books are very important in our home. i really believe that reading is a key building block for learning and life. i have always read to my kids and they are growing up with a love for books and reading. My son always liked technical and informational books when he was younger then jumped right into reading large chapter books in the last couple years. My daughter who is 4, prefers picture books and animal stories. For my boy, his love of reading has turned into a love of writing. He has recently started writing many of his own stories.

Do you like to write? Have you ever thought about writing your own children's book?

General Mills Cheerios is searching for the next new children's author in their Cheerios Spoonful of Stories 2011 New Author Contest! The annual Cheerios New Author Contest encourages authors to write an original children's story. The one Grand Prize winner will receive $5,000 cash and the possibility of a publishing deal with Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing and your book featured inside a box of General Mills Cheerios cereal boxes nationwide.

If you are interested in finding out further details on entering the Cheerios Spoonful of Stories 2011 New Author Contest check out the contest rules and entry form at www.spoonfulsofstoriescontest.com.

You have until July 15th, 2011 to write and submit your children's story for the contest!

Now for the GIVEAWAY!! CLOSED

My Blogsparks and Cheerios are offering one of my readers a prize pack that includes a box of Cheerios with Laurie Isop´s book inside, as well as a "create-your-own" book kit for kids that contains two hard cover books and all the necessary materials to creatively fill the pages inside, including story starter ideas, stickers and colored pencils.

MANDATORY ENTRY

What was your favorite book as a child and do you read to your children?

Please post your answer in a comment and include your e-mail address in the format of Yourname(at)email dot com or make sure it is visible in your blogger profile so i have a way to contact you if you win. Otherwise a new winner will be chosen!

EXTRA ENTRIES (make sure you did the mandatory first!!)
please leave a new comment for each extra entry. You can do as many or as little extra entries as you like! If you qualify for 5 entries, leave 5 separate comments.

1. What is your child's favorite book/books?
2.Follow my The Enchanted Tree blog via google friend connect. 1 entry
3. Be a fan of The Enchanted Tree on Facebook. 1 entry
4. Share this giveaway with your facebook friends! 1 entry

5. Tweet about the contest and include the hashtag #myblogspark and a link back to this post. Leave a link to your tweet. Can be done daily.
6. Blog about the giveaway. Include a link to this post, leave a comment letting me know where to find it. 4 entries
7. Get one extra entry for entering any of my other current giveaways.

**Rules**

• Giveaway ends April 29st. st 11:59pm EST
  
• Winner will be chosen via Random.Org. i will then contact them by email, and post the winners name on my blog.
  
• Winner will have 48 hours to respond to the email or another winner will be chosen
• This giveaway is open to US only.

*** Cheerios and Myblogsparks provided me with the same prize pack listed above, information and giveaway for my readers. i received no money for this post, all opinions are my own. i am sharing it, because i think it is a great opportunity for new authors!