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GIVEAWAY Tolkien or Seuss, What’s Your Favorite Childhood Book?
EDIT – This contest ended Sept. 30, 2010. Thank you to everyone who participated!
Celebrate National Literacy Month with Homewood Suites and share your story for a chance to win!
To read or not to read? Is that even a question?! At Homewood Suites we are very excited about our reading. Oh yes we are! In fact, we have partnered with the Books for Kids Foundation to help build libraries in low-income, high-risk neighborhoods to make books accessible to children who normally would not have them.
Check out our spankin’ new Lewis the Duck Reading Library in Memphis!
Now, what’s your story with reading? Your fondest memory? Your favorite children’s book? Really, we want to know!
In celebration of National Literacy Month, we want you to help us spread the word. You could even win a two-night stay at Homewood Suites by Hilton. How? The rules are simple:
• Become a fan of Homewood Suites on Facebook and follow us on Twitter (@HomewoodSuites)
• Send us a Tweet telling us about your favorite childhood book using hashtag #suitereads OR post a comment below.
• Get creative! Include links to photos and videos! We will post select Tweets and comments on our Facebook page.
Homewood Suites will be selecting a winning Tweet or comment, which will be announced on October 15, 2010. The winner will receive a two-night stay at any of Homewood Suites’ nearly 300 hotels around the US, Canada and Mexico.
P.S. – Be sure to follow #suitereads on Twitter for interesting literacy tidbits and facts from our Books For Kids friends.
By entering this contest you agree to the following:
• No employee of Homewood Suites, Hilton Worldwide, SuiteTrip.com or participating agencies are eligible.
• By entering the giveaway, participant grants Homewood Suites permission to share photos, video links, etc. on social networks.
• Prize valid for travel through October 15, 2011. Dates pending availability and subject to blackout dates.
Winner will be contacted via Twitter direct message or email with instructions on how to redeem the prize.
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Don’t think that we should be forced to enter via Tweets on Twitter. Some of us don’t want/need a twitter account. Could you include email or comment/share to enter this contest, please.
Think your move to partner with the Books for Kids Foundation is wonderful. I was an ‘early reader’ when it was not understood that if you read to a little person, they would learn how to read the EASY way. My mother found it amusing that I’d put the newspaper on the floor — my bottom up in the air, on my knees and elbows and ‘read’ the paper. Until the day she realized I WAS reading it, in fact. I asked her what RAPE meant (and pronounced it properly according to her!!). I was not quite four years old and had been read to since birth.
My most favorite memory was being allowed to get an Adult Library Card at age 7. I no longer was restricted to four books and my mother no longer had to return to the library twice a week. I could check out as many books as I pleased!
Shelly, that’s a good point. We’ll gladly allow comments posted to this entry to be considered for a chance to win. Good luck!
The Three Billy Goat Gruffs and of course, The Giving Tree
I loved reading SO much when I was a kid. Thanks to having two older sisters in the house, I had lots of adolescent books around in the house and enjoyed reading Sweet Valley and Babysitters’ Club books while most of my friends were still checking out picture books for the summer reading program. But, I got bored with the Wakefield twins before too long, too. One day, in the summer between 5th and 6th grade, I wandered into the adult fiction room at the public library and discovered my new favorite author–who remains one of my favorites to this day–John Steinbeck. I just bought a collection of Steinbeck books an estate sale a few weeks ago, in fact. Imagine all the great stories I would have missed out on if it weren’t for our public library, the summer reading program, and two sisters who loved to read, too!
Reading has always been about imagination and relating to the character .. our family has three favorites .. Madeline, Eloise & Fancy Nancy… The characters are very similar to my daughters so they can relate to these curious little girls .. In an old house in Paris which is covered with vines, lived 12 little girls …smiled at the good ..frowned at the bad … not scared of tigers or mice. The books are catchy, have stories that they can relate …and if you ask them where they want to visit ..any where these two girls have been. Yes, we own the DVD’s as well … Ludwig Bemelmans wins my no. one vote …Eloise 2nd ..Fancy Nancy is in there as well. We have had birthday parties with these book characters as well ..if I knew how to attach a picture I would of.
I still remember the day I started reading “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith. I was ten and the rain was pouring down relentlessly outside my bedroom window. I was immediately immersed in the world of Francie Nolan, the protagonist, a child who lived a life very dissimilar, yet somehow exactly like my own. Even though she lived in early 20th century NYC and I grew up in rural Ohio in the 1980′s, the fictional Francie was my soul mate. For the next week, I raced home after school every day to devour more of my favorite book. I cried, I smiled, I experienced so many emotions with Francie! That book inspired a lifelong love of words in me, and I re-read it many times over the years. When I wrote my own memoirs for fun last year, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was my touchstone. I am sure that reading often as a child fine-tuned my empathetic nature, improved my analytical skills, and simply made my life…better.
Tikki Tikki Tembo was the book I remember most from my childhood. It is about a boy named Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo. He falls into a well and his little brother, Chang, runs to their mother and shouts that Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo has fallen into the well over and over because she can’t hear him. He then goes to get the Old Man with the Ladder and uses the ladder to get Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo out of the well. The supposed lesson is that one reason Chinese names are often short and one syllable is because of the time it took for his brother to explain to people what happened to Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo as a result of his outrageously long name. It was fun to read out loud and I would laugh everytime I said his name. I never complained about having a strange first name ever again.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was a favorite. I always felt that I was right there in the middle of the story, not at a table reading the book. Mark Twain pulled you into the story.
Mother Goose, 3 Billy Goats gruff, Hans Christian Anderson(we had a huge volume!), Winkin, Blinkin, and Nod Nursery Rhymes book, Little Women, And Nancy Drew! Love this question. Brings back fond memories! Reading and literacy should be the right of all children…they, hand in hand, open the road to their futures and a while new world.. through reading and literacy, children can travel to many places and times, without leaving their chairs!
cathy b
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my favorite children’s book is jump all the morning!
I loved the Rebecca series and Anne of Green Gables..
Also Ferber’s So big.
My comment can count as an entry?
Thanks
I loved Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp.
My favorite was Where the Sidewalk Ends by Sheil Silverstein.