PIP/ Children's Book Review/Giveaway/CLOSED: Cesar Takes a Break by Susan Collins Thomas


Sterling Children’s Books sent me a wonderful book to review in preview for their new Listen Along Storybook program and podcast beginning on March 1st!

This wonderful new program, provides parents and children with free audiobooks of Sterling's most successful titles, as well as a Jokecast featuring jokes from Sterling’s many joke books, all for free!

The audiobooks and the Jokecast were made at Sterling's own little recording studio at their office building, and are voiced entirely by Sterling employees! Talk about a great job to have, no? The audiobooks all have original music and are fun to listen to!

We were sent Cesar Takes a Break by Susan Collins Thomas and beautifully illustrated by Rose, to follow along with a sample of the audiobook for it.

Aimed at ages 4-7, Cesar is the story of Cesar the Iguana. Life has been good for him, he went from living in Pets-a-Plenty to being a class pet in Ms. Lee's elementary classroom, with 25 best friends to pamper him. But now spring break has arrived and the kids are gone for a WHOLE week, leaving Cesar in a puddle of sadness. But then he decides to take a vacation too and wanders from classroom to classroom, meeting all the other class room pets who got left behind also, and making hilarious notes in his journal. Before long he's feasting on strawberries, playing Shakespeare on stage, dancing the Iguana Shuffle and playing hockey in the teacher's lounge! But will he ever want to go back to his Cage????

This is an adorable book! Cesar has a great time doing things that the kids get to do in school and meeting all the other pets. The audio book really brings it to life for a child! My daughter loved hearing someone else besides Mom, Meme or Papa, reading a book to her! The music was superbly picked and really accented the book wonderfully! Robert Agis, the brilliant mind that came up with the Listen Along program in the first place, is HILARIOUS (as you’ll see if you watch the video). He is the voice of Cesar and many other characters in subsequent audio books and he wrote all the original music. He is a smart, innovative guy, who may be on just a wee bit TOO much caffeine, but that makes him perfect for the audio book! You can check out the making of the audio book on You Tube here: 


I can't wait to listen to some of the other titles with my daughter!  Additional selections will be Twelve Dancing Princesses, Perfectly Arugula, We Go Together, I Saw an Ant on a Railroad Track, Cowboy Camp ,Tex and Sugar and Jack and The Beanstalk. Something for every child!

And LUCKY you my readers! Sterling wants to give THREE of my readers ALL EIGHT of the actual BOOKS to go along with the Listen-Along Storybook site!

Are they AWESOME or WHAT????????????????

So without further ado, the contest rules:

GIVEAWAY:


THREE ( yes, THREE) lucky readers will receive ALL EIGHT books included in
the Listen-Along Storybook audio line !!


MAIN ENTRY:
(REQUIRED)
Go to the Listen-Along Storyline Site and tell me WHICH book you would really like!

(if you don't do this, NONE of your extra entries will count!)




EXTRA ENTRIES:

Make sure I have an email address, with your comment, so I can contact you, if you win! 
 
If I don't have a way to contact you, you will forfeit your win!
3 day winner's rule : Winner has 3 days to acknowledge they won prize,
and confirm address, if no contact, then new winner will be picked in their place. 
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Contest will end on March 11th, at midnight. Winner will be picked by Random Number (random.org) on March 12th, and emailed. As soon as winner's info is received from winner,I will advise Sterling of their info, and Sterling will mail the books to all 3 of the winners!






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