We love reading books which is why I wanted to tell you about The Book Club. The Book Club team currently reads around 700 books a month and reviews and categorises each one to make selecting books better for parents. They have a great and informative website and I love the fact that books are categorised by age. Little Sis is just entering The Cooing Stage and I look forward to her brother entering The Explosive Stage!
Join The Book Club and you will receive:
- weekly newsletters customised to your child’s learning age
- over 3000 recommended books and the cheapest places to buy them
- book ideas, language tips and games
- build your Dream Bookshelf and save it to your profile
Giveaway:
The Book Club are generously offering one reader of the gingerbread house a TEN book package of children’s books with a retail value of £60. The books will be chosen according to the age of the winners’ child/children and The Book Club will build a package which is perfect for them.
To enter:
Simply visit www.thebookclub.co.uk and find a book which you would love to own. Post the link to the book in the comments section below and tell me why you would love it.
PLUS for additional entries:
Follow The Book Club on twitter and tweet “I want to win children’s books with @thebookclubUK and @gingerbread_mum http://the-gingerbread-house.co.uk/2012/03/12/the-book-club-giveaway/”
and/or
‘Like’ The Book Club on facebook and post the link on their wall to your favourite book with the words ‘Our favourite book – the gingerbread house recommended you’.
The Rules: the competition closes at midnight on March 30th and is open to UK residents only. The winner will be selected at random by The Book Club and contacted using the email address, facebook ID or twitter name supplied. If the winner does not reply within 3 days the competition will be redrawn. Good luck! The winners’ name will be announced on this blog post.
***** The giveaway is now closed and the winner is Olivia Kirby *****







we are hoping to move house this year so this might help with it being such a big change
@emmav6
follow & tweetd
@emmav6
like & posted on fb
emma walters
Six Dinner Sid as Alicia loves cats
Liked on facebook and posted Alicia’s favourite book, this is the bear (who fell in the bin……) She knows it word for word and she’s only 2 🙂
as nominated ‘bedtime story’ reader in our house, i’d love to own this book, to share with my two small boys:
i think it would engage them
have followed and tweeted
@andy_uu
My 3 yr old son adores books, his fave at the moment is ‘Dear Zoo’ which he chooses to read every night!! Would be great for him to have a new favorite 😉
I would love to win’ Peepo’ for my little girl, it will of been read by three generations of my family and every one of us has loved it. Such a lovely illustrated book by a brilliant author. What an amazing prize ! re-tweeted !!
Both my kids would love this book!! my daughter is rhyming everything and my son loves anything stinky!!
Zog is my boys’ (6 and 4) favourite book of the moment. We have one copy which they both want to read at the same time so a second copy would be great so that “Now that you’ve been shown you can practise on your own…”
I would most like this book, as my son is only 2 but already loving to learn about things and has recently ‘discovered’ dinosaurs. We read a lot together but don’t have many non-fiction books so this would fill a gap in our book collection as well as stimulating his imagination.
Also liked and commented on Facebook
I would love to read this and also my son would too, I have heard so many good things about this book, its sounds like a great read
I have tweeted as @tiawanawana
I would love to win the ‘Happy Baby Book with Bounce Along CD’ . Its so important for children to develop their creative skills and through music and rhymes this can be done. When listening to rhymes and music children are full of smiles while learning so much including communication, language and literacy. This book and CD meets so many developmental needs my daughter is 18 months and she would love it.
I am following on twitter and have tweeted @Jlnorris2010
I have liked on facebook and posted on the wall – Jamie-Lee Norris
My daughter, currently 11mths, adores books! She will crawl past musical toys to get to her bookshelf and pull off her favourites to ‘read’. We love to sing and sign together and The Wheels on the Bus is a great song so would love a book version too 🙂
This would be very useful to me as my partner is having her first child soon.
My daughter loves cats and very much misses our cat who died last year, so I’m intrigued to find out how this one turns out.
The Gruffalo is the one I’d pick because I’ve heard of him but don’t know the story so it would be a great one to read when I’m babysitting!
This is the book I would love to own as my grand daughter loves being read stories. At only 2 years of age she already has agreat collection of books.
Would love to win this for my nephew.
Our favourite book ’http://www.thebookclub.co.uk/peepo-3094.html
– the gingerbread house recommended me! We are slowly working our way through my fav books from when I was a child. The last book was the tiger that came to tea and I want my potty! This is next!
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has got to be the gruffalo
Our son is picking up words at a rate of knots now so this book would be great to increase his vocabulary and improve his diction.
I’d love to own this and give it to my daughter as it is in the series of books that she is asking to read next.
Thanks
Laura
War Horse Michael Morpurgo
I feel that this book would help me introduce my grandson another side to war that would enable us to discuss it in a useful way
Followed and tweeted
Liked and posted on Facebook Ruth Mse Tesdale
This is my absolute favourite. My children who are 24, 21 and 17 all loved it and now so does my grandaughter!
Strangely enough, I didn’t read this book until I was an adult! Thought it was hilarious and touching, so I’d love to read it to my niece and see a child’s reaction to it.
(Did the FB bit!)
My 1 year old son would love this. Comes with an audio CD too so will drown out the sound of my voice when singing to him!!
The book I would like would be Bedtme Rhymes:
Bedtime is a relaxed time to share and enjoy rhymes and stories. I like rhymes because they explore language and sounds in a fun and lightharded way and stimulate the imagination to develop their pithy plot further.
Sleepytime stories, to help my little boy sooth before bed time.
The book I would love is:
My daughter loves all her books and we dont own this one yet
My little girl would love What The Ladybird Heard as she loves ladybirds and animals, and she loves making animal noises.
My daughter’s a huge Jacqueline Wilson fan and would love to read this one (we are on the library’s waiting list!). It sounds a bit more light-hearted than some of her work.
The perfect story to send my little pirate off to dream about his own treasure hunts.
Story of Peppa Pig.
We have booked to take my grandaughter to see Peppa Pig at West Yorkshire Playhouse in June & would love to win this for my husband & I to read to her.
This would be the perfect book for my Son who is fascinated by any information to do with WWI/WWII!
Liked and posted on Facebook
Followed and retweeted – @norty1309
great prize
Would be ideal for my 4 Granchildren 3 of whom are avid readers, the 4th one is too young but loves being read to.
For my eldest niece as she is just starting to get into history and is insatiably curious
Have heard great things about this book and Julia Donaldson is a fav in our house already, so am sure that this would be a great addition to our bookshelf!
Have followed and tweeted. @rachiegr
Have also liked and posted (Rachie Littleme)
would be perfect for my boy as that is his level at school
A lovely prize & it would be ideal for my little granddaughter to have read to her every night
My daughter would love this
I’d love a “Happy Baby Book with CD”
It’s perfect for us and our 10 months old daughter who enjoys clapping, waving and listening to the songs very much!
I follow The Book Club on twitter and tweeted. @pandcands
I ‘Liked’ The Book Club on facebook and posted the link on their wall to my favourite book.
Spend all day reading The Gruffolo – its my 1 year olds favourite book so I know he’d love this too!
This is a beautiful book that would be perfect for my newborn
Bud borrowed this book from the library recently – – and really loved the story so I think we will be adding it to our collection soon.
I have tweeted @RedRoseMummy
Posted on FB (as Pippa Ainsworth)
Dangerous Animals we have lots of questions in our house on this topic some that I can’t always answer so this would come in handy!!!
My daughter is rushing through books at the rate of two or three a week.
@livvyssmile
The illustrations look lovely in this book and I haven’t heard of this one before
The Gruffalo as it seems very popular with my daughters friends but we’ve not read it yet.
We would love to own this garden detectives handbook! My sons would love it, and it may also be able to answer their questions better than I can!
Time for bed, Max and Millie would be a topical choice for my little man, who would rather play than go to bed.
Many thanks for a fab giveaway! We love books.
Have tweeted as @maximka25 and already follow The Book Club.
Thank you!
My son has a big castle in his bedroom and loves playing with his knights, so I think he would enjoy this book.
Following and tweeted @ericahughes
We love reading these books!
We would love to own
It is one of the few we don’t have from Julia Donaldson.
Following and have tweeted @lucyrobinson3
The illustrations look lovely in this book
Following and have tweeted @handbag2000
Posted on FB
Zog…we love The Gruffalo books and would love to read this one by Julia Donaldson too. @wendymcd83
Follow and tweeted @wendymcd83
Liked and posted on Facebook. @wendymcd83
Zog because the pictures are such fun
I still have all my Enid Blyton books from when I was a child and have passed these on to my child who is expecting her own baby now and when they are old enough I will enjoy reading the Famous Five Go Down to The Sea, one of my favourites
These look like great fun for teens.
I would love the Princess Polly’s Potty My 18 month old daughter is a big fan of reading and I would love this book to get her prepared for potty training in the summer.
I think my 3 year old son would love this book he loves trying to find something on every page in this case the ladybird.
Following on twitter and tweeted @emstargally
I like the look of this one: .
My son is just getting the hang of reading now and I think he would like this.
i would love the gruffalos child, my daughter loved the gruffalo so i think this would be perfect. shes very clever for a two year old and loves books so i wouldnt want to waste such a talent. i think we would have lots of fun reading this together and looking at the lovely bright pictures x
My daughter would love . We like books about animals x
Followed and tweeted @anna8301
– have heard good things about this book @MummyFever
I would love this as we really enjoyed the christmas special and it would be wonderful to see it in print and read it to my children
tweeted @esthermate
also followed the book club on twitter
liked on facebook and posted the message esther james
It would have to be my daughter loves Pirates at the moment Already following and have tweeted as caroljs
i would love to sit down with my daughter and look through this book, shes loving learning about the world and its different cultures at the moment, this book would help her alot.
liked and posted on facebook (Emma j Lowe)
have tweeted @emmajlowe
I would love to introduce my nephew to the spot the dog books.
tweeted @magical2727
would love to win this for my daughter, she is 3 months so would be good to make bath times more fun!
also posted on the book clubs facebook page
this would be great for my daughter as she is just getting to the point of learning letters and putting sounds together to make words –
i have tweeted and followed as @ashlallan
love the gruffalo bumps2babies@btinternet.com
followed and tweeted @bumps_2_babies
https://twitter.com/#!/bumps_2_babies/status/182623224335572992
liked on facebook and left message
bumps2babies@btinternet.com
My children are older so I would love this Michael Morpurgo book as he writes so beautifully –
@BoostieBoo
I have tweeted and I already followed – @BoostieBoo
So sorry just realised my email address is showing instead of my name in my previous 2 posts, if you could change it to Jo Young or delete them I’d be very grateful 🙂
Done! Thanks for entering 🙂
Thank you 🙂
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i love What The Ladybird Heard
@kathvbtn
Yes great book great to sing along to and I had a similar book for my kids so I know the grand children will love it!
liked & followed http://www.thebookclub.co.uk/gruffalo-s-child.html Our favourite book – the gingerbread house recommended you
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Followed on twitter @chrriss88
I have never read The Gruffalo, but I have heard such god things about it I feel I am really missing out!
I would love to own this book about the solar system
then I might be able to answer some of my son’s many questions about outer space!
it is a beautiful book. the pages are all glittery and touchy feely which my daughter loves at the moment,
The Monkey Puzzle because my little girl loves it but her baby brother ripped it up so we really miss reading it (even though we know the words off by heart now!)
I am following The Book Club on twitter and tweeted @french_caroline https://twitter.com/#!/french_caroline/status/184657283513450496
this looks exactly the sort of book my son would love to read, he can be a reluctant reader and the title will tempt him
we would love this as they read it at library wriggly readers and melly loved it
following and tweeting as @olivia280177
I would love to own What The Ladybird Heard.
liked and commented on FB
My lil girl loves all things animals at the moment
It would have to be Monkeys as my LO loves them!
I’d love to own What the Ladybird Heard, looks like a great fun book that my 2 year old daughter would really enjoy 🙂
Each Peach Pear Plum is a favourite in our house!
I’d love for my little girls 🙂 @pipersky1
Meant to say – I remember it from when I was little so would love to share with my girls 🙂
Followed and tweeted 🙂 @pipersky1
I would love this book for my 8 year old daughter. She is an avid reader (which I am very proud of :)) who is currently enjoying the first book in this series.
It would have to be the Tiger Who Came To Tea – – why? I simply ADORE this book. It reminds me of my childhood.
Following and have tweeted too @rhodak09
my little boy would love this as he loves the grufflo would love some new books for him as are old ones are getting a bit borning now x
looks good fun
Goldilocks…..for my 7 month old grandson….this is a book that doesn’t date…a story that has been read and read over the years and will continue to be read for many years to come.
My baby has just learnt that pushing a button on one of her books makes the book sing Old McDonald. (Proud mummy moment! :)) This would be a great addition to her new skill.
ALready follow on Twitter and have tweeted @fairyprincess31
would love to win any Louis Sachar book – if they are as good as Holes, then they must be read!
I would love this phonics book for my 3.5 year old as she has just become interested in reading and I think this would help!
This book looks really sweet and anything that helps with getting my Little Miss to sleep has got to be good 🙂
Great book for reinforcing the phonics my son’s doing at school!
I’m sure my niece would be engaged by Rowling’s work, heopfully get her off her phone for a minute!
This book sounds great. My son is always going on about smelly socks!
My little boy loves the film the Gruffalo’s child. We have the first Gruffalo book but don’t have this one and I’d love to be able to read it to him.
The Noisy Farm is a lovely interactive book for very young children, this would be brilliant for my Grand -Daughter.
Following and tweeted
@chocolateonemse
Liked and commented on FB
Karen Barrett
I would love to win’ Peepo’ for my GRANDCHILDREN, we love it. Such a lovely illustrated book by a brilliant author.
My little boy loves animals…. and he loves making animal noises…. and making noise in general really… so I think he’d love this Noisy Jungle book!
@leila_jo_mummy
Also follow & tweeted.
@leila_jo_mummy
maybe zog cos its third on the list so it must be good!
this is a lovely book!
My little girl will love this book all about the dinosuars. We thought watching jurassic park would frighten her but she thought it was great and has been hooked ever since
Would love to win this book, because my little man loves animals and loves musical books