What you like…

One of the options on my Kid Lit Giveway for Children’s Book Week was to tell me your favourite children’s book.

More than half the entrants completed this option, and I thought I’d share the results.  Many of them I’ve heard of, some I’ve read and a few are completely new to me.  One of them is such an old friend that I didn’t realise anyone still knew about it!  Guess which one that is!

You listed:

  • Green Eggs and Ham (top vote)
  • Wrinkle in Time series
  • The Benedict Society books (I must check those out)
  • Jane of Lantern Hill
  • Le Petit Prince
  • Bow-wow Bugs a Bug
  • Madeline
  • James and the Giant Peach
  • Heidi
  • The Boxcar Children series (I read a review of those during the hop and I think I’ll love them)
  • The Famous Five
  • ABC SuperHeros
  • The Recess Queen
  • Don’t Need Any Friends
  • Wodney Wat
  • A Fine, Fine School
  • Wind in the Willows
  • A Fish out of Water (PD Eastman)
  • The Princess and Curdie
  • Owl Moon
  • Just Because I Love You (Max Lucado)
  • Wizard of Oz
  • Anne of Green Gables
  • Aesop’s Fables
  • Pippi Longstocking
  • Junie B Jones

I’ve got a lot of reading to do to catch up on these.  I generally cite Wind in the Willows as my favourite, which makes me hope at least one of the prizewinners will also like my books!  The favourite I’d forgotten was The Princess and Curdie, which is a sequel to The Princess and the Goblin.  I’ve just downloaded the un-illustrated versions free to re-read!

Feel free to add more ideas in the comments below.

Kid Lit Giveaway – winners!

I’m pleased to announce the winners of the Kid Lit Giveaway, which ran during Children’s Book Week, are:

  • Elishia – won the Princelings of the East Trilogy in paperback
  • Ann – won the trilogy as three ebooks
  • Rebecca – won the Princelings ebook of her choice.

I hope you enjoy reading them, well done, prizewinners – and thank you all for taking part.  Watch out for special offers in June!

The Talent Seekers – Out Now on Amazon!

The Talent Seekers is now published on Amazon at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Talent-Seekers-Princelings-East-ebook/dp/B00CWKBIN4/.  You can download it for your Kindle or Kindle app for just £2.10 (or $2.99 at the .com site – €2.60 on European sites).  It is also free to borrow for Amazon Prime members until mid-August.

The blurb:

Humphrey having a small cuddleHumphrey is on the run.  He has no friends, no past, no purpose, and no future.  He’s just a guinea pig trying to find his way west in a world of dark forests, wild hills, strong castles, and assorted vagabonds and other nameless things that might or might not begin with the letter V.

White Horse Castle has a proud past but an uncertain future.  The new king, Benson, is trying to hold his realm together against the avaricious intentions of his neighbour, Lord Colman of Castle Deeping. Fortunately, White Horse Castle has a secret.  It knows that there are special guinea pig people out there… people who need a purpose… people with skills and talents that could be put to good use. The trouble is, how to find them?

It’s a tale of friendship and greed, battles and ingenuity, suitable for readers aged 12 and up.

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The Talent Seekers is set after all but the epilogue of the Lost City in the Princelings timeline, but is more or less independent of the previous stories.  Some minor characters have appeared in other books, but most are new.

As with previous books, there will be some free offer days during the next three months.  For the latest news, follow this website, or follow Jemima’s blog, like the Princelings Facebook page, follow @jemima_pett on Twitter, or become a fan of Jemima Pett on Goodreads.

Back to normal – and five sweet things about me

Well, that’s it for Children’s Book Week.  The Giveaway closed about an hour ago and I’ll be pulling the winners out of the hat today.  Watch out for an email from me in your inbox – you’ll only have 48 hours to respond and claim your prize or I will draw the prize again.  I hope you enjoyed all the extra information about the guinea pigs that inspired the Princelings books, and also the pictures and other things to do.  I’ll link the pictures into the ‘Xtra Stuff’ in case they are useful in future.

On Saturday I was nominated by Rebecca Douglass, the Ninja Librarian herself, for the Super-Sweet Blogger Award.  Well, the guinea pigs were.  I have to make my own badge for the award and answer  five Diabolically Sweet Questions (guineas don’t eat sweets, and chocolate is poisonous for them – as it is for dogs – so I’m answering these for myself):

Cookies or cake?  Well, assuming we’re talking biscuits here, I prefer cake.  Although I like Jaffa cakes which may or may not be biscuits.  I like ginger nuts as well, they’re biscuits.
Chocolate or vanilla?  Chocolate chocolate, and vanilla ice-cream and any other sweet food other than chocolate.  I don’t like white chocolate, though I’ll eat it if that’s the only thing on offer.
Favorite Sweet Treat?  Well, I do like jelly babies, although I’d prefer it if they were made of veggie-gel.
When do you crave sweets the most?  When I’ve done something stupid like given them up for Lent. Otherwise, when something’s upset me.  I’m a comfort eater.  I must need a lot of comfort.
Sweet nickname? I call the boys “Sweetheart” most days.  Boys as in guinea pigs 🙂

Super-Sweet Blogger Award

Now to nominate someone else.  Well I can only think that it’s time Julie Grasso, author of Escape from the Forbidden Planet, should receive it.  She writes the sweetest books – with sticky chocolate and toffee cake with caramel cardamom sauce (or something like that!).  Congratulations, Julie!