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Back-to-School Giveaway Winners

We are pleased to announce the winners to our Back-to-School giveaway event. We have a lot of fun hosting these giveaways — both exposing you to some interesting products and giving you lots of chances to win. You can support the businesses and publishers and authors who have sponsored these giveaways by clicking through the…

Back-to-School Giveaway 2009

Pencils. Bookbags. Clothes. A new schedule. New assignments. New interests. It’s back-to-school time! We at 5 Minutes for Books want to help usher in this new season with some great giveaways designed to help you get organized, get ready for school, and to supply you some great books for learning or leisure-reading. Join us for…

A Year of 5 Minutes for Books

Has it been a year already? Well, yes — actually a year and a month. Our official anniversary was July 10, but you know how kids with birthdays at inconvenient times like summer vacation and Christmas often have to celebrate some other time? I think that’s what happened to us. It’s been a wonderful year,…

Father’s Day Winners

Thanks to all of you who entered the three Father’s Day giveaways. I hope that you will click back through to the posts and consider supporting our sponsors by buying the books that you were so excited to win (you can buy them anywhere, but if you buy after clicking through our links, you will…

Summer Fun Giveaway Winners

How fun was that? We loved taking a few weeks to present some books and activities to help make the whole family’s summer more enjoyable. Keep an eye on our “Current Giveaways” page. Throughout this summer, we’ll always have at least one a week, if not two. The week leading up to Father’s Day we…

Did you win?

Thanks to our sponsors, we’ve had some fabulous giveaways this month, including the Summer Fun Giveaway. We will be posting new giveaways all week, but you can enter the ones that we’ve already published by clicking through the links found on the main page. And when this is over on June 11, the giveaways will…

Summer Fun Giveaway — 2009

I count Memorial Day as the unofficial start of summer. Many of your children are out of school, or if you are homeschoolers, you have scheduled that nice summer break. Summer brings downtime, which is great for mommies and daddies, but also sometimes brings cries of “I’m bored!” from the little ones. The warm weather…

Reasons to join the Everyone is Beautiful Bookclub

It’s not for bloggers only. We’re going to figure out ways to get you other booklovers involved: tweet-ups, perhaps a conference call, polls, reader response contests, not to mention a wide-open comment field here at 5 Minutes for Books. Oh — you saw that word? Contests? Yes. The author has offered up some great ideas…