ETA: This contest is now closed. Check back on Sunday, March 28 to see who won.
Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss!
I learned to read from a Dr. Seuss Beginner Book (P.D. Eastman’s SNOW) — I’ll never forget that lightbulb moment — and I’ve had a very warm spot in my heart for the Cat and his Doc ever since. So I’m excited that the occasion of his birthday today (and a book birthday for me, to my delight), we can announce The Spectacle’s BIGGEST CONTEST EVER.
This one’s only for public or school librarians, and the prize is almost a library by itself: 0ne book, two book, red book, blue —oops, no, sorry. Not one or two books, but eleven great spec fiction books can join your library’s collection:
- INCARCERON by Catherine Fisher (hardback)
- SACRED SCARS by Kathleen Duey (hardback)
- THE BOOK OF NONSENSE by David Michael Slater (hardback)
- THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE by David Michael Slater (hardback)
- THE SECRETS OF THE CHEESE SYNDICATE by Donna St. Cyr (paperback)
- HOUSE OF THE SCORPION by Nancy Farmer (paperback)
- THE EMERALD TABLET By PJ Hoover (hardback)
- NAVEL OF THE WORLD by PJ Hoover (hardback)
- THE SEER #1: DON”T DIE DRAGONFLY by Linda Joy Singleton (revised large issue with short story bonus)
- THE FARWALKER’S QUEST by Joni Sensel (hardback)
- THE TIMEKEEPER’S MOON by Joni Sensel (hardback)
Are you hopping on Pop with excitement? Here’s how to enter:
Librarians, send us your library’s name and your professional e-mail address. You can leave that info in the comments here or e-mail it directly to joni AT jonisensel.com. Earn an additional chance at the prize if you repost or tweet the contest and let us know with the link.
And if you’re not a librarian, don’t be a Grinch! Instead, we hope you’ll repost and otherwise alert all your librarian pals. (In fact, we might pull out a bit of a prize for the referral, if our winner can tell us who told them about it.) We’ll draw the Box O’ Books winner on March 25, so there’s plenty of time to spread the word to all the Whos down in Whoville. Good luck!
— Joni, on behalf of everyone here at The Spectacle
Not a librarian, so I don’t qualify, but what a great prize for a lucky librarian out there!!
This is such I great idea. I will spread the word.
I’m not a librarian, but I’ll help spread the word. =)
Thanks, Joan.
I’ve posted to Twitter and FB. Wish I could win…
Next time you want to do this, how about asking your author followers to donate a copy of their book? I’d be happy to send you one of mine. http://www.nexuspoint.info
Thanks!
GREAT idea, we will!
I am a librarian, what a great contest!! My library is the Pueblo City-County library District and my prof email is: sarah.wethern@pueblolibrary.org
I also tweeted about this: http://twitter.com/truthuniversaly/statuses/9904589240
Ashley High School
Thanks for the opportunity.
Thanks for the contest – I know our teens would love these books!
I’m at the New Albany-Floyd Co. Public Library – ajohnson@nafclibrary.org
Spring Lake Park High School Library
tjense@district16.org
Thanks!
Los Angeles Public Library, Central Library, Teen’Scape!
Awesome libary giveaway!
Brighton Memorial Library (Rochester, NY)
This is a great prize and I know patrons at my library would greatly appreciate the books.
Ronan City Library
Ronan, Montana
ronancitylibrary@gmail.com
I’d love to enter! My patrons would love this
Jen Petro-Roy
Hooksett Public Library
Hooksett, NH
jpetroroy@hooksettlibrary.org
The teens at the Marshall County Public Library (Kentucky) would love this collection of books! tblackwell@marshallcolibrary.org (And I hit the “retweet” button on Twitter)
I am the District Librarian for a small rural school, Monroe City R-1. We will keep our fingers crossed:)
Digital Collections Librarian in Butte, America… we’d love these books.
The Hollidaysburg Area Public Library (Hollidaysburg, PA) would LOVE to have these books in the collection. What a great prize! Thank you for the opportunity.
(my professional email: melanie.ramsey@gmail.com )
I work at the Central Branch of the Lexington Public Library in Lexington, KY.
I’m a librarian at Hinsdale Public Library and would love the set. I also tweeted about it: http://twitter.com/LiBecky
Oooh, thanks for the opportunity! I’m the librarian at Goddard Middle School.
Count me in! Betsy Su at the Champaign Public Library. bsu@champaign.org
I am the Youth Services Librarian at the Solon Library. Here is my email jleveck at solon.lib.ia.us.
And I tweeted about it here: http://twitter.com/happylilcloud
I also posted this link on my facebook page.
Ronan City Library
ronancitylibrary@gmail.com
I am a school librarian. This is a wonderful contest and chance to receive books. My library is Parkersburg Catholic High School, Parkersburg WV.
Thanks for the great opportunity. I’ve read some of your books and hope to share them with my students.
I’m the librarian at the McAfee Library, Middleboro High School, 71 East Grove Street, Middleboro MA02346
donnaphillips@middleboro.k12.ma.us
Thanks for a great contest opportunity!
Jamison Hedin
Ludlow High School Library
Ludlow, MA
j_hedin@ludlowps.org
Even the Lorax would approve of the trees felled to produce the books on this list.
They would be welcome additions to the Pablo Casals Middle School Library.
I am the school librarian at the School of Environmental Studies (ISD196) in Apple Valley Minnesota. I’d like a chance to win the Big Box O’Books. Thanks.
I am the school librarian at P.S. 69Q The Jackson Heights School in Jackson Heights, NY. My students and I would love a chance to win the Big Box O’Books. Thank you so much! I have spread the word on the many listservs I belong too!
Thank you!
Public library on a mititary post. How exciting!
I’m a librarian at a campus high school in the south Bronx, James Monroe High School. We’d greatly benefit from this opportunity !!!
amoore32@schools.nyc.gov
This is great! My teens would love to get their hands on these books
I work as a teen librarian @ Lucy Robbins Welles Library in CT.
bortiz@newingtonct.gov
I’m a public librarian, in a very rural area and we would love these books!
kristie_boucher@hotmail.com
Yeah! I am the Youth Services Coordinator for the Marshall Public Library in Marshall, MO!
We are Knee Deep in Dr. Seuss Week!
Right now I am dressed as Mr. Lowe, the anxious principal for Diffendoofer School, in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! Receiving these books would trully make it a diffendooferest of days!
bobbie@marshallpublib.org
http://www.marshallpublib.org
Here is my facebook post!
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/bobbie.mackey
bobbie@marshallpublib.org
http://www.marshallpublib.org
Have a diffendooferous week!
Great contest; my students would love these books. I’m a high school librarian at Berkeley High in the Bay Area of California.
aprovence@berkeley.k12.ca.us
What a wonderful opportunity. I am the children’s librarian at Missouri River Regional Library in Jefferson City, MO – baynea@mrrl.org.
My teens would absolutely be thrilled!! Here at the Bollinger County Library in Marble Hill, MO.
I will loan them to that boy,
and replace that video toy.
I will loan it to that girl,
the one with the magenta curl.
I must get someone to read,
it’s an all-consuming need.
Help me get my kids to look,
at a perfabulicious book!
Michele Ascione, James Madison HS Library
jmadisonlibrary@yahoo.com
What a great contest! Hope I win.
I’m the media coordinator (librarian) at a PreK-5 elementary school in North Carolina. I love this idea and would surely love to win those books.
Thanks,
Andersen United Community School Media Center is hoping to win this great contest!!
I hope we win
Thank you for offering this to libraries! My library is Wilson County Public Library and my professional email is jstoner@wilson-co.com. I reposted on my Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wilson-NC/Wilson-County-Public-Library-Young-Adults/91825928725?ref=nf
I would love a set!
My teens would love these! And with my ailing collection development budget, a win would be amazing.
Collection Development and Teen Services Librarian, Missouri River Regional Library
watersc@mrrl.org
I would love to enter the contest.
Washington Junior High School
2101 Division Street
Manitowoc, WI 54241
I also sent a tweet to my followers at: http://twitter.com/Libgoddess01
Thanks,
millsr@mpsd.k12.wi.us
Count me in!
Orange County Public Libraries
Cypress Branch
Cypress, CA
Hi! Thanks for the great opportunity to win some great titles! Hopefully I’ve got the Luck O’the Irish and will win the Box O’Books!
Ooops! I’m from the Cora J. Belden Library here in Rocky Hill, CT!
Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Dawn
Teen Services Librarian
Highland Public Library
Highland, MI
Great contest! Thanks so much!
Kristine MacNeill
Youth Services
Ruby M. Sisson Library
Pagosa Springs CO
Hello–
I’m Sarah Reid, the Youth Services Librarian at the Broome County Public Library in Binghamton, NY.
Thank you for offering this contest!
Pat Schons
becrafpa@oplin.org
Clermont County Public Library – Union Township Branch
We could really use those books. I never win anything, but it is always worth a try.
The Atkinson Public Library would love to have a big box of books to add to their collection!
Thank you for this!
Steger-South Chicago Heights Library
Steger, IL
td.ssch@gmail.com
What a great contest!
Gillian Dawson (gdawson at orangecountyva.gov)
Orange County Public Library
146A Madison Rd.
Orange, VA
22960
Great Idea – Fabulous Prizes!
I would love to add these book to our collection, fresh, new titles are just what we need!
Clarkson Public Library
Nebraska
Thank you so much for this!
My name is Leanna Chappell, my library is Swanton Public Library in Swanton, Ohio, and my professional email is actually lchappel at gmail.com
Hi! I am the director of a small rural library in Nebraska. It is wonderful to have an opportunity to win! We have great need and little opportunity. Thank you.
Thank you for the opportunity to win free books for our library. Anita Dodd
What a great contest! Since our youth collection’s average age is from 1994, these books would be a definite plus!
I am a Media Specialist/Librarian at Palmer Public Schools. We’d love to win those books. What a great gift! Thanks for doing this for kids.
Palmer Public Schools Library
Nebraska
These books look so appealing! Our young adults would love them in their section of the library. I have my hand up, OOOOOOHHHHH! OOOOOOHHHHH! OOOOOOHHHHH!
Pick us!
Honestly, thank you for hosting this birthday bash contest in honor of one the most admired and loved authors ever!
Rebecca Cemper
O’Neill Public Library
What a fantastic contest. Please enter the John Stahl Library in West Point, NE.
Happy birthday Dr. Seuss!
Just had a great Dr. Seuss birthday bash with the Head Start children from our community this morning! Our teen section could really use a boost of excellent reads! Thanks in advance for considering US!
Janet Roberts
Wymore Public Library
Wymore, NE. 68466
Please enter the New Milford Public Library, New Milford, Ct.
What a wonderful contest. I will also post this for other librarians who read to my teen blog http://nmplteenblog.blogspot.com/
Sounds like a great contest!!
Adrienne Everitt
Provo City Library
550 N University Ave
Provo, UT 84601
Great contest! Public librarian, North Kingstown Free Library, North Kingstown, RI!
Thanks for the chance!
The titles of the books sound wonderful. Our Valley Library Teens will love the books.
I’m so excited – my students will love these books!!! I’m the K-12 LMS at Miller County R-3 School in Tuscumbia, MO. A small school with a small budget!!
Thank you for the opportunity.
Lysha
We want to win too!
1 entry requested for the Madison Public Library in Madison, NE
madlibr@cableone.net
Did you notice all the Nebraska applicants? We (Nebraska Public Libraries) were sent the information on this contest from the Nebraska Library Commission’s Children and Young Adult Library Services Coordinator – Sally Snyder!
What a wonderful idea–Dr. Suess has been an inspiration to us all!
Kristin Bunde
Saratoga Elementary Media Specialist
kbunde@lps.org
Thanks for the chance to win cool books!
Trails Regional Library, Concordia Branch is a small rural public library in Concordia Missouri. We are part of an eight branch system.
Thanks for thinking about librarians! I’ll spread the word on the contest.
Ellen Tannenbaum, Tuckahoe Public Library
Tuckahoe, NY storyteller29@gmail.com
Thank you for such an exciting contest! It’s terrific to see that books continue to make an impression on patrons and that others out there realize the importance of reading!
Thank you!
Charlene W.
I work at the Scotts Valley branch of the Santa Cruz Public Library. We’d love your books!
Thanks,
Kari
As old as they are, our elementary students check out more Dr. Seuss than almost any other author! He inspires children not just to read, but to become young authors as well.
Deb
Dorchester Public Schools (NE)
Please enter me!
jmoir AT
ci.dearborn-heights.mi.us
Dearborn Heights City Libraries
Great Contest! Our Library Patrons will love the
books.
Thank you for the opportunity,
Jean Slowinski
Children’s Librarian
Gretna,NE.
Wonderful contest. The books would add to our library shelves.
Zundy Leadership Academy
Wichita Falls, TX
grades 6-8
Oooh! Count me in! Yay for free-book-contests!
Kristen
Orion Township Public Library
As Dr. Seuss would say, This is a wonderful, terrific, very fine day
When someone gives away a set of fine books,
To fill all my shelves, corners and nooks!
I am at the Lied Winside Public Library at Winside Nebraska… a small town library. I have been here for 29 years!! professional address is liedwinpublib@yahoo.com
Each year the children start asking when do we celebrate the “Cat in the Hat Day”? Even student in the middle school and at the high school level love Dr. Seuss Day. I will always have a sweet spot for Dr. Seuss.
Dawn Weber Rushville Elementary Librarian for the Gordon-Rushville School system.
I think it is a great idea. I am a young adult librarian at the Gallatin Library in Gallatin Tennessee and we are very interested in being part of the contest.
I am the librarian at the Clearwater Public Library in Clearwater, NE. This is a very small library in a rural community. New YA books would be a very special treat !
I am a librarian at the La Vista Public Library in Nebraska.
Battle Creek Public Library would love to have a box of books for our young adults. They are the fastest growing group in our library. Soon they will have their own room in our “new” building–a remodeled 1893 Methodist Church. Their new room will lots of space for more books.
Sorry, goof up. We are Battle Creek, Nebraska and still love lots of books.
I’m a YA librarian at the Shelbyville-Shelby County Public Library in Shelbyville, IN. Please enter me!
My professional email is mhostetler(at)sscpl(dot)lib(dot)in(dot)us
I need a big box o’books for my school where I am a librarian: Central Islip HS, 85 Wheeler Rd., Central Islip NY 11722 kmonaco@centralislipschools.org
I have also posted the info on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=130703759965&ref=ts)
This is a great contest! I am the a librarian at Morrill Public Library in Morrill, NE. Our E-mail is morrillpl@charter.net
Thanks for the fun!
Small library in small town would love free books!
I am the library director st Elgin Public Library in Elgin, Nebraska.
I am the children’s librarian and youth services librarian at Lexington Public Library. This is an awesome collection that would be a nice addition to the books we already have. If we are lucky enough to win these great book, then we will be able to say to the Young Adults (as quoted by Dr. Suess): Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places!! You’re off and away!!
We are a small library in a town of 350 with alot of readers. We would truely use and enjoy these books. Oakdale Public Library Oakdale, NE
Count me in! Thanks!
mess@wellington.org
Hello, I am the librarian at the Rushville Public Library in Rushville, Nebraska. I think these would be some excellent titles to add to our small but growing young adult collection. Thank you so much.
If you’re chosing this from the comments, there are clearly more deserving and needful library patrons here: pick the librarian who serves them.!
But if it’s random; and I win, mine will go to a couple of small school libraries I serve. I’m reposting the contest on my personal blog and on my library facebook page (You have to log into facebook to access it. Such a user-friendly site: meh!
What a great contest ! These books would make a wonderful addition to our collection.
stephanie@sidneypubliclibrary.org
What a great gift this will be for libraries!
Hemingford Public Library in Hemingford Nebraska. My name is Deb and I am the Director/Librarian.This would be such a nice addition to our little library!
Thanks so very much
Our e-mail is hpl@bbc.net
Great contest! We just had our Dr. Seuss Birthday Party today! It was a huge success. I’d love to be entered into the contest.
My library is the Woodward Memorial Library in LeRoy, NY.
Thanks!
Betsy, Children and Teen Librarian
bhalv@nioga.org
Thanks for the opportunity!
Adriana Melgoza
Alhambra Civic Center Library
msbibliotecaria@gmail.com
myspace.com/alhambrateens
facebook.com/alhambrateens
+1 point for re-posting on Facebook
I’m a Teen Services Librarian and would love to win!
Clay Center Public Library can always use new books for the teen library. We have some who read so quickly.
Posted on my personal facebook page, hope this is okay….would love this!!! Thanks!!! I am the Assistant Librarian/Children’s Librarian for Wilson Public Library, Cozad, Ne. Good luck to all who apply!
The Franklin T DeGroodt Memorial Library in Palm Bay, Fl would love a chance to win these books. Thanks!
jhopwood@brev.org
The Deshler Public School would love the chance to win this box of books for the students here at Deshler. So please enter us in the contest.
“Oh the Places You Can Go” with a great book.
Thank you!
Jennifer Leithauser
Bayfield High School Library
jleithauser@bayfield.k12.co.us
Our budget has been cut tremendously, as other library budgets have as well I know. Our library collection could really use a boost, it is heavily used.
I work for the South Sioux City Public Library, NE and I tweeted about this on our teens page and our library facebook page! Here are the links:
https://twitter.com/SSC_Teen_Group
http://www.facebook.com/pages/South-Sioux-City-NE/South-Sioux-City-Public-Library/61011459569#!/pages/South-Sioux-City-NE/South-Sioux-City-Public-Library/61011459569?ref=mf
Email: omeyer@southsiouxcity.org
Thank you for this opportunity
Odessa and the SSC Public Library in NE
Great contest idea!!!
Celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday
Celebrated it happily, in many a way–
Cupcakes, reading, a video, and more
Celebrated an author we all adore.
Now, our older students would love to read
a Big Box O’ Books, which they received
from a contest they won.
What a lot of fun!!!
Thanks to Sally Snyder from the Nebraska Library
Commission for alerting us to this contest!
K-12 Library/Media Specialist
Scribner-Snyder Community School
I am glad Sally Snyder alerted us about this contest!
I’d like a chance to win the big Box of books.
Laura Alt
Librarian from Shelby Community Library
Oh the books I books we could read
and the lives we could lead
and the web of learning we’d spin
if only this contest we could win!
My school is Becker Elementary in Austin Texas. Next Year we are one of four schools piloting a dual language program and we would love to win some free books.
The greatest percent of our students are on either free or reduced lunch. They need all the books we can provide for them.
I would love an opportunity to win some free books. I’m a school librarian at Middle Ogden Preparatory Academy in Ogden, Utah.
Great prize. Pick me! Pick me!
I’d like to enter the contest for the New Bethlehem Area Free Public Library! I’m the director, and my professional e-mail is newbethdirector@gmail.com.
Thanks for the opportunity – I appreciate it!
P.S. I heard about this from Linda Joy Singleton!
What a wonderful contest — and how wonderful it would be for our little Nebraska village if our Valparaiso Public Library won it! We have such a small budget we can use all the help we can get.
We have ALMOST 600 resident and they love the library — especially when we get NEW books. Lots of our young readers especially love speculative fiction.
Thanks for sponsoring this contest –
Maria Cadwallader, Library Director
Valparaiso Public Library
Valparaiso, Nebraska
Our teens would love some new books.
scribnerlibrary@yahoo.com
What a great opportunity for some awesome books! I am the librarian for Elmwood Public Library, Elmwood, Nebraska
elmwoodlibrary@windstream.net
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Raymond A. Whitwer Tilden Public Library
202 South Center Street
P.O. Box 457
Tilden, NE 68781
ooh! ooh! Pick me! Pick me!
What a wealth of books. My favorite easy reader as a kid was not by the good TSG, but by P.D. Eastman… “A Fish Out of Water.” I think I liked it so well because at the time, we had a fish tank, and my parents were VERY careful of how much those babies got fed!
Christine Deffendall
Youth Services
Lexington County Public Library System
206 Pine Street
Pelion, SC 29123
cdeffendall@lex.lib.sc.us
We just finished weeding and reorganizing our YA section…how awesome it would be to add these titles to our clean shelves! Thanks for the opportunity!
I would love to get these for our library!
I am a librarian for the Fairfield Public Library in Fairfield Ne. Thank you for sharing great books!
I’m the teacher librarian at CHERRY VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Duvall Washington
We love to read!
Nelda Brangwin
brangwinn@riverview.wednet.edu
The box o’ books looks great!
Blazier Elementary School Library
Austin, TX
krish.stella@austinisd.org
And here is the repost
http://marylovesbooks.posterous.com/win-wonderful-books
I am a school librarian at Searingtown School Library, Albertson, NY and thanks for the oppportunity!
I am a Youth Service Librarian at South Huntington Public Library. What a lovely chance to win some books for some lucky teens!
My library info is:
Lansdowne Public Library
55 S Lansdowne Ave
Lansdowne, PA 19050
lacsd@delcolibraries.org.
Will post a link on my Facebook page.
-r
What a great offer, thanks!
Hill Top Preparatory School library
agillespie@hilltopprep.org
I am a High School Librarian at Foss High in Tacoma. We have a large special needs program that would love to find your books on our picture book shelves, as would our Art Department that LOVES the art of the picture book.
Hello! I am a youth librarian on a little island 12 miles off the coast of Rhode Island called Block Island, and we would love these books! Thanks for the chance!
I am one of two media specialists in this high school of 1,900 students. Wonderful titles! Thank you for this opportunity.
Fantastic contest
Fantastic contest!
Thanks for the opportunity!
I am a volunteer librarian at the Ozark County Library, an all volunteer library (we don’t receive any taxes), and I always keep my eye alert for such opportunities. The Ozark County Library is the only public library in our county and is dependent on contributions for its operations.
I know my students would love to read these books if you have any more. Thank you.
We are such a new library
So, we need all these books you see.
What a great gift this will be,
Please, pick me, pick me, pick me!!!!
Wonder Down Under
the Library at The School of Performing Arts @ P.S. 315
We are smack dab in the middle of Brooklyn at 2310 Glenwood Road, Brooklyn, NY 112210
This is a great contest! We would love some new books for our library! I am a librarian at Brooke Elementary School in Spring-Ford and my professional e-mail is mthal@spring-ford.net. Thanks for the opportunity!
So do non-professional librarians count? I am the volunteer librarian at my school, Tech Valley High School. (I acquire books, organize holdings, rotate the collection, and deaccession as need be. This can be verified at the school on 518-862-4960) My “professional” e-mail is lisabeth at techvalleyhigh dot org.
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I’m Youth Services Manager at Herndon Fortnightly Library in VA. Thanks for a great giveaway!
I’m a librarian and my professional email is
erin_fitzpatrick_bjorn@gbsd.gresham.k12.or.us
Thanks for a fun contest!
What a great contest! My student’s love new books (but, of course, who doesn’t?)
Colleen Beaupre
Islamic Saudi Academy of Washington
colleen.beaupre@saudiacademy.net
Cool!
Manhattan Public Library
rcarnes@manhattan.lib.ks.us
Sounds awesome! Our teens would love them. My library is Plainville Memorial Library (Plainville, Kansas)
pville2@ruraltel.net
What was that?! What did you say?!
A Big Box o’ books?
Please send them our way!
Bess Johnson Elkhorn Branch
Omaha Public Library
pthomsen@omahalibrary.org
Hi! I’m the new children’s librarian here in our small town and I would love to win these books for our library! Our library is Osceola Public Library in Osceola, Nebraska 68651
I am the teen librarian at our small rural library. We would love to win the books!
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Please enter our library in the contest. We’re always looking for books for our teens. We are the Fairbury Public Library in Fairbury, Nebraska 68352
Please enter the Snyder Public Library in the Big Bos O’ Books Birthday Contest.
Thank You
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