For this giveaway I am offering a copy of this wonderful Christmas book....
COLE FAMILY CHRISTMAS by Jennifer Liu Bryan with Hazel Cole Kendle: The wish book. This amazing year, the nine children in the Cole family have been allowed to sit down with the Sears, Roebuck and Company catalogue to choose the gift they would most like to receive for Christmas. This is a rare event, for the Coles are not wealthy. This is the true, tender, and wholly unforgettable tale of a coal miner's family, as remembered by the youngest of the family, now 88 years old, and told by her granddaughter-in-law. The story takes place in the small company town of Benham, Kentucky, in a time (1920) and place when coal was king and families made their precarious living mining the dirty and sometimes deadly coal.I loved this book. I thought it was truly a heartwarming Christmas story that every family could enjoy!
HOW CAN YOU WIN????
1. Leave me one comment telling me you want to win.
2. Visit The Cole Family Christmas website and take a look around. Come back and tell me something you discovered. You can do this as many times as you like as long as you leave a different discovery in each comment!
After you have done one of the first two you can...
3. Add my link to your blogroll and leave me the link to your site here.
4. Subscribe to my blog in a reader or follow my blog and then leave me a comment telling me you did!
5. Blog about this giveaway and leave me the link to the post. If you don't have a blog just email five of your friends about this giveaway and leave me a comment telling me you did it!
6. Twitter about this giveaway and leave me a link. You can do this once per day for extra entries.
PLEASE LEAVE ME A WAY TO GET IN TOUCH WITH YOU IF YOU WIN!!!
This giveaway is open to everyone everywhere - I will choose a winner on Saturday, November 8, 2008. You will have 48 hours to respond or I will choose another winner.
And don't forget to enter these other great giveaways I am currently running...
67 comments:
This book sounds really cool!I love book and I love Christmas so it sounds like a perfect combination!
Sound like a good book to read on a cold day with a hot cup of tea. Thanks Tara.
It sounds like a great story...Pick me! Pick me! Thanks again.
I would love this book. Thank you!
Caroline
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Sounds like a good story! Sign me up.
Thanks for the giveaway! Would be good to read.
My kids need to hear about a story like this.
I'd love to have this book so I could read it to my grandchildren! Thanks!
One,I'd like this book....to cute!!!
Two, on the website I liked "Hidla's Favorite Blog's" list along with the cute picture of Hilda!!!
Thank you for introduceing this book and site!
Darby
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Another great christmas book i would love to read.
I would love this story for my kids.
samsakara@wcny.rr.com
This sounds like a very heart-warming story and I would love to be entered.
michelle at northofthe49 dot com
We live in the mountains in a town that was founded primarily because of mining...I would love to read this story to my son as our setting is similar to the one in the book...I love that it focuses on the value of people rather than material things.
owatz (AT) telus (DOT) net
This sounds like a wonderful book!
elkmeese at yahoo dot com
count me in!
I really thought the Christmas Gift tags that matched the book were cute and would be fun to coordinate the books and gift-
Thanks so much for the AWE-some Give-oh-Way!
audrajjensen(at)msn.com
I would love to win! This book sounds like something I would like to read aloud to my grandchildren this holiday season!
smchester at gmail dot com
I would love to win.
I love Christmas stories.
Thank for the great book..
Sounds good!
lilacbutterfly [at] earthlink.net
I would love to win. semtaylor@yahoo.com
Not familiar with this...Nine kids. Wow this would make Christmas fun. semtaylor@yahoo.com
Sounds like a great book.
please enter me...mrs.mommyyatgmail.com
This sounds like a great family read-aloud.
It sounds really endearing.
I'd like to win this!!! Thanks for the giveaway!
mybabyappleseed(at)yahoo(dot)ca
An 88 year old wrote this along with her grandaughter-in-law!
mybabyappleseed(at)yahoo(dot)ca
I guess that last post was technically something you mentioned, but I thought it was pretty amazing when I read it more closely on the website!
Hazel has four children, seven grandchildren, and one great- grandchild. What a legacy!
mybabyappleseed(at)yahoo(dot)ca
Hilda is the spokesgoat for ReadAloud.org. What a great goal -- encouraging families to read aloud together!
mybabyappleseed(at)yahoo(dot)ca
The animation of Hilda the goat is done by a computer and a behind the scenes actor! Reminds me of Polar Express except on the fly! Amazing! The youtube footage is great!
mybabyappleseed(at)yahoo(dot)ca
You can download free gift tags with the characters and scenes on them! What a great idea.
mybabyappleseed(at)yahoo(dot)ca
Mama's prize bowl is broken in chapter 1 while the boys (and dog) were wrestling.
I'd really like to win this book (as you can tell!).
mybabyappleseed(at)yahoo(dot)ca
Would love to win.
cherierj(at)yahoo(dot)com
Sounds like a great book! Thanks for the giveaway.
I love reading. I love Christmas. I love this giveaway!
I would love to win this book. Thanks
livlifelov at yahoo dot com
My family (mother and father) are both from Kentucky, and from Coal mining towns, this would be a wonderful book to share with my mom.
purehrt555(at)yahoo(dot)com
I'd like to win a copy of this to read to my son at Christmas. It sounds both charming and educational. Thanks!
This would be a great book for my family to enjoy.
-Terra
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I discovered that Next Chapter Press will contribute a percentage of the net proceeds from the sale of Cole Family Christmas to the Berea College Appalachian Fund
I'd love to win this!
what a sweet giveaway, count me in.
This looks like a really good book, thanks for the giveaway!
mattandjen[at]gmail.com
Co-author Hazel Cole Kendle is the youngest and last surviving member of the nine Cole children.
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I learned that Hilda, the animated goat from the new book 'Cole Family Christmas' received his first media coverage May 29 on CBS/KCAL in Los Angeles.
mattandjen[at]gmail.com
I would love to win this book! It sounds fabulous! I learned that Hilda the Goat - first had media exposure on MAy 29th which I thought was neat b/c that is my BELOVED's B-day!
like you said "i want to win!" :)
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Thanks for the great giveaway!
Sounds like a good book. The old ones are the best!
Penney
penneymaried@sbcglobal.net
Sounds awesome. Count me in!
I want to win! Thanks for the giveaway!
We love getting new Christmas books to read with our sons each year, and this one sounds terrific! Thanks for the chance to win!
sttil@juno.com
Something I discovered from the website. . . it was a book recommended by Lynn Swan.
sttil@juno.com
Something else I discovered. . . there are discounts offered if you buy more than one copy . . . :-)
It looks like a great book--looking forward to reading all of it!
sttil@juno.com
Hilda's first media coverage was on May 29 on CBS/KCAL in Los Angeles.
mybabyappleseed(at)yahoo(dot)ca
The book "Cole Family Christmas" Premiered May 29 - June 1 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The authors were there to sign the book!
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The story was told to Hazel by her sister who was 10 years older than her. She said it was the best Christmas their family ever had.
mybabyappleseed(at)yahoo(dot)ca
Hazel's said "He (I assume her dad) would let the goat in until my mother discovered it and she would make the goat get out". How great to have an indoor goat!!!
mybabyappleseed(at)yahoo(dot)ca
From now to November 17 Hilda, the live-animated goat, is interacting daily with audiences at Black Bear Jamboree in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
www.blackbearjamboree.com
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Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas: “…the book reminds us of some of the greatest treasures of Christmas - creating family memories that last generations."
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Diane Petryk Bloom, Children's Book Examiner, writes that the Cole children were allowed to ask
for presents from the Sears catalogue. Even though they had their best Christmas ever none of it came from the Sears catalogue.
mybabyappleseed(at)yahoo(dot)ca
"Next Chapter Press will contribute a percentage of the net proceeds from the sale of Cole Family Christmas to the Berea College Appalachian Fund."
This fund works towards improving health, education etc. of people living in the Appalachian Mtns.
mybabyappleseed(at)yahoo(dot)ca
Jennifer, Hazel's granddaughter-
in-law has one son -- Jack who is Hazel's first great grandchild.
mybabyappleseed(at)yahoo(dot)ca
This looks lovely! Thanks for sharing!
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