It’s giveaway time again! This month, we’ve been blessed with a wonderful gift from our friend, Susan K. Marlow.
In the Circle C Beginnings series, children ages 6-8 will meet six-year-old Andi, her baby horse Taffy, and her family and friends on the Circle C ranch in 1874. These chapter books include fun pictures and easy-to-read text that will keep your beginning readers turning the pages. Free coloring pages and learning activities from the website, www.AndiandTaffy.com, add extra fun. These books are wholesome reading from a biblical worldview, and winner of the 2011 “Best Children’s Book” blue ribbon award from The Old Schoolhouse’s Homeschool Crew.
Your beginning reader will LOVE these books! My Office Assistant Nikki and her daughter loved them! Here’s what she had to say:
My daughter loves The Circle C Beginnings Series. She struggles with reading and usually resists any kind of chapter books. The horses, silly antics of Andi, and the situations she gets herself into crack my daughter up. I can find her giggling as she reads and I always know she is understanding what she is reading because she can’t wait to come tell me what happened when she is done. Daily I get, “Mom, guess what Andi did today?” or “Listen to what Andi said to…” I love it when a book series brings out the joy of reading.
You can enjoy the antics of Andi and Taffy with the young one in your life. These books are perfect for beginning readers or those who need a simpler reading level yet crave a good story. Details and samples can be found on the series website: www.AndiandTaffy.com
The Prize:
ONE six-book set of the Circle C Beginnings series for beginning readers!
To Win:
One winner will be chosen using Random.org by the staff of The HomeScholar and announced on our Facebook Fan Page on Tuesday, November 8, 2011. Are you a Facebook Friend yet?
To Enter:
Leave a comment on this blog post by Sunday, November 6th! Tell me what your favorite book or series was when you were a young child. You might just help someone else relive a memory or add one that they want their child to experience!
Good luck to you all, and a special thank you to Susan K. Marlow for offering us such a wonderful gift!
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kara f. says:
Thank you!!!! for all your support/guidance for homescholing my highschoolers…these books would be perfect for my 7yo. (:
November 1st, 2011 at 8:39 am
Alisha says:
I loved the Trixie Belden books.I always looked forward to a trip to the book store with my mom, and I was always excited when she said, “Yes. You can go pick one out.” I wish I had kept all the books I had as a child.
November 1st, 2011 at 9:09 am
Lisa says:
I loved to read stories about horses when I was younger.
November 1st, 2011 at 9:28 am
Julie says:
Laura Ingalls Wilder was a favorite author of mine when I was younger. I read the Chronicles of Narnia when I was in either 2nd or 3rd grade but couldn’t remember the titles or author until I was an adult and introduced the books to my own kids. What a joy to finally “rediscover” these stories.
November 1st, 2011 at 9:46 am
Kristi says:
WOW!!! What a generous giveaway!!! We LOVE Susan Marlow’s books dearly. I think that choosing our favorite book would be like choosing our favorite child!! However, I think that our favorite might be the very first one we read: Andi’s Scary Schoolhouse Days. What kid would not be grateful for our homeschool after reading about Andi’s school adventures!!
Oh, I am crossing all my fingers and all my toes. To own the ENTIRE SET!!! WOW!!
November 1st, 2011 at 10:07 am
Diedre says:
My all time favorite book was Charlotte’s Web. My children love the book also!
November 1st, 2011 at 10:07 am
Elizabeth says:
My favorite books as a child were the Boxcar Children series. Really got my imagination going. And I would always pretend to live in a boxcar.
November 1st, 2011 at 10:13 am
Wendy says:
I had the whole collection of Laura Ingalls Wilder books, but was a slow reader as a child and was not encouraged to read much. I started to read them, but was discouraged, and never finished. I am finally reading them aloud to my 6-yr-old daughter and am enjoying them as much as she is! We have only two books left and I am very thankful that I kept my collection.
November 1st, 2011 at 10:16 am
Kimberly says:
When I was younger, I didn’t have a favorite series of books, I was just SO excited whenever the Bookmobile came around that I got whatever my mom would let me get!
Our boys liked Hank the Cowdog when they were younger. Our daughter is very much into the Olivia books and Max and Ruby (she can almost read them all the way by herself!).
November 1st, 2011 at 10:21 am
Sandy Grant says:
My favorites were The Boxcar Children and Narnia. Though I would steal my sisters Nancy Drew and read that too. I also Loved E B White.
My daughter would love these books cause they are about horses- I would love them cause they aren’t Pokemon.
November 1st, 2011 at 10:24 am
Amy says:
My daughter would love these books!! Thank you so much for the chance to win! My favorite set would have to have been the Thoroughbred Series by JoAnna Campbell! I still own some and re-read them every once in awhile!
November 1st, 2011 at 10:26 am
Holly Colson says:
I read the “Little House on the Prairie” series so much when I was a kid that the pages started falling out! LOL…
November 1st, 2011 at 10:30 am
Cindy says:
When I was in grade school my favorite books were the Sugar Creek Gang series. I think then I only had to save up three dollars to get the next one, or wait until Christmas and find one or two in my stocking.
November 1st, 2011 at 10:54 am
Sara Brown says:
Little house on the Prairie was my all time favorite set of childrens’ books!
November 1st, 2011 at 11:36 am
Jennifer says:
Trixie Belden was my favorite, I still have all the books.
November 1st, 2011 at 11:47 am
Carol says:
What a great looking book series (that my dd would love!) I was hooked by Narnia early on… but my mom (now in her 70′s) shared her favorite series with me too. I also enjoyed Honey Bunch, and the Maida books.
November 1st, 2011 at 11:51 am
Kellyann says:
My favorite series was either Little House or the Mandi books. Both are awesome. Now that I’m older my favorite series’ are from Bodie and Brock Theone … all of their series are great and their historical fiction which makes them even better.
I would LOVE to win these for my daughter. We don’t have much money this year for Christmas and she would be ecstatic about them as a gift!!
November 1st, 2011 at 11:58 am
Jessica says:
When I was younger I liked books about horses and now my daughter really likes anything about horses too!
November 1st, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Rebecca Bruce says:
Oh how we LOVE books….my favorite growing up was the Little House series. Adventurous, fun, and wholesome !!!
November 1st, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Krystin says:
I loved CW Anderson’s horse stories. Remember Billy and Blaze? I remember that I read all the horse books in our elementary school library. I couldn’t wait to go to the high school library!
November 1st, 2011 at 1:02 pm
Jyl says:
My favorite book was about a little girl who had the midas touch with candy instead of gold. Wish I could remember the name.
November 1st, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Tara Bennett says:
I loved the Trixie Belden books. I saved all of them, and now my daughter has read them so much, they are falling apart.
November 1st, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Wayne S. Walker says:
I guess my favorite books to read when I was growing up were the Hardy Boys books.
November 1st, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Deana says:
I forgot about Trixie Belden! Little House was my fav. I am reading it to my 7yr old now. I will have to check out this new series for her too!
November 1st, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Renee says:
Secret Garden and Hellen Keller.
November 1st, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Laurie E says:
Funny how so many are the same answers already!? I, too, enjoyed the Little House books and the Narnia set. A little later, I liked Judy Blume books also. My 7 yr old LOVES to read. She would really enjoy and treasure this set. Thanks for the chance.
November 1st, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Gigi says:
Unfortunately, my parents did not instill a love of books in me, so I didn’t read my first one until I was in junior high! And then it was a Nancy Drew mystery a day!
November 1st, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Sharolyn C. says:
Wow, when I was very young my favorite book was a Little Golden Book called “Little Mommy”. I read and looked at those pictures over and over. Still have it and my kids read it too!
November 1st, 2011 at 5:54 pm
J W says:
My challenged student would probably love the Circle C stories.
My favorite series were the Oz series.
I like the Oz series because for the most part, the books were about sweet girls who were intelligent, resourceful, and courageous, but at the same time they didn’t sacrifice their femininity to be so.
But I read only the fourteen volumes written by L. Frank Baum – there were tons of other Oz books written by other authors. When I was a kid (maybe 9, 10 years old) I figured if Baum himself had a little tiny bit of trouble with continuity, history, and details throughout his own series, another author might make a hash of things.
Later as an adult I fulfilled a childhood dream and read *all* Baum’s books that he obliquely referenced in the closing chapters of _The Road to Oz_. For the most part, I got them on Interlibrary Loan. Nowadays one might be able to read them online.
November 1st, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Debbie says:
I loved period books like Snow Treasure but I think a series that I probably read all the books from were the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy books. Loved them!
November 1st, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Merideth says:
My kids enjoyed Hank the Cowdog. Little House books are a great classic.
November 1st, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Ann says:
Hmm–this is tough! When I grew up, way back when in the good ol’ days, there were four of us girls who were very good friends, as we all lived within a block of one another, played together, walked to school together, etc. We all enjoyed sharing the Nancy Drew series together.
As I approached the “tween” years (we weren’t called tweens back then), my best friend and I loved the “Beany Malone” series. These books were stories of the life of a teenage girl and her family, friends, and neighbors. We loved that she eventually fell in love with and married her big brother’s best friend and their next-door neighbor, whom she thought was way too serious as she was growing up! I’m not even sure these books are still in print. I should check to see if I could buy them used on Amazon!
I do not have young daughters (or any daughters, for that matter), nor grandchildren yet, but I absolutely love children’s literature, and I love the jacket cover as displayed on Lee’s blog. So I am submitting my “chance” nonetheless! =)
November 1st, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Heather Wawa says:
My two favorite series as a kid were the Trixie Belden books and the Betsy Tacy series. What wonderful memories!
The Circle C series would be adored by my 7, 5, and 3, yo daughters!
November 1st, 2011 at 7:10 pm
Debra says:
My favorite series? Laura Ingalls Wilder definitely. I read through that series at least once every few months. But I also adored Trixie Belden. And I read a lot of Nancy Drew.
November 1st, 2011 at 8:57 pm
Cristi says:
My favorite book as a child was Ballet Shoes. I guess I loved my Little House on the Prairie books nearly as much — all of them are falling apart at the seams, too.
November 1st, 2011 at 9:14 pm
Lisa McClanahan says:
My favorite book when I was little was Ferdinand. I had the book and a cassette tape that had a man with a very heavy accent reading the book. I can still remember how he spoke. I borrowed a tape copy from the library but it was a different person. I still have my original book but I don’t know what happened to the tape.
November 1st, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Sharon says:
I loved reading the boxcar children series of books.
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:45 am
Leanne Hamby says:
The Nancy Drew Series!
November 2nd, 2011 at 4:09 am
Carrie says:
I loved the Cricket In Times Square, Charlotte’s Web, The Boxcar Children and the Nancy Drew series.
November 2nd, 2011 at 6:13 am
Jennifer Newsom says:
My favorite book was The Wizard of Oz, and loved anything by Judy Blume! Ramona Quimby, etc.!!
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Jeanette Weaver says:
I loved the Black Stallion Series by Walter Farley and I kept them all and handed them on to my oldest who also loved them.
November 3rd, 2011 at 6:25 am
Stacy says:
My mother read a lot of poetry to me when I was young. Not any series. When my children were ready for me to read chapter books aloud, I read the Little House series. That is my favorite and I try to read at least one of the books to the family every fall.
November 3rd, 2011 at 6:40 am
Michelle Snyder says:
As a young girl my favorite story was “Home for a Bunny” by Margaret Wise Brown. As I got older my sister and I loved to listen to our mom read from the “Little House on the Prairie” series.
November 3rd, 2011 at 7:10 am
Julie Enloe says:
I would love to win these for my daughter! Thank you for the opportunity. My favorite book growing up was “The Giving Tree”.
November 7th, 2011 at 3:04 am