Contest Win Book Haul!

 

As a reviewer, I try to make sure I get my reviews on book store websites, primarily Indigo Books as I'm in Canada. Periodically, Indigo runs contests where if you review books within a certain time frame, your name gets put in a pot and you have a chance to be randomly picked.

Well, for the December Contest, I was a random winner! This meant a $500 Gift Card to Indigo!

As I'm not reading for myself nearly as much as I used to, I took this opportunity to allow the kids to go on a shopping spree!

Munchie, who is 5, had a plan and knew what she was looking for: Food Group books. She already has The Bad Seed, The Good Egg, and The Good, The Bad, and The Spooky. 

This trip she grabbed:

She walked right past the Gabby's Dollhouse book on the bottom shelf, once I showed it to her it was a must have.

Biggie, who is 2, was much more about pointing at books he liked, flipping through them, then putting them back. That was until he found:

As a kid who has 3 Grandmas who he adores, this tracks.

ABC Black History & Me (Numbers and letters are everything he wants, he saw this one from the end of the aisle and started hollering about ABC!!!! Until we let him have it. The diversity angle is excellent and I hope to go through it with both kids.

Way too advanced for him reading wise, but lots of dinosaur pictures which is really why he wanted it.

Aka the Pickle book! Biggie is obsessed with pickles, not eating, just talking about them. This one is an instant fav.

I grabbed Just One More Story, which I reviewed the ARC of with Munchie earlier on the blog. I look forward to this becoming a family cuddle book.

We also grabbed a couple of board books for their little cousin:

A favourite in our house

 

Picked specifically by Munchie as she thought her cousin would love petting the chick.

Hubby grabbed:

which will allow him to catch up on that series as we've been able to get the galley for the Sub-Majer's Challenge, and he's looking forward to reading through that.

I, am still considering how I would like to spend my riches. After our haul, we still have nearly $200 on the gift card. I have a couple books I'm eyeing coming out in the fall, but for now we'll just see where our current library takes us.