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Love Is In The Air GIVEAWAY

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Can you feel it?  There is love in the air today!   To celebrate Valentine’s Day and International Book Giving Day, we are introducing and GIVING AWAY a new book, Love Is In the Air by Jonathan Fenske!

Full Disclosure:  I received a copy of Love Is In The Air to review.  However, all opinions expressed are my own!

A few weeks ago, there was a little package waiting in my mailbox.  To my delight, author and illustrator Jonathan Fenske had sent me his first children’s book.  Love Is In The Air is a tale of Kite and Balloon who become friends up in the air.  After Kite lands in a tree, Balloon is separated from his friend, Kite.   However a run in with a bird helps reunite the two friends.

Love Is In The Air is a Penguin Young Reader book perfect for that beginner reader in your life.  Books for beginner readers often lack an interesting story line.  Love Is In The Air proves that statement wrong!  The tale of separation and reunion of two friends will capture your child’s interest from the first page. Jonathan’s bold and simple illustrations provide just the right amount of support for the text.

So, who is this new author and illustrator of children’s books?  I had the chance to ask Jonathan a few questions about himself.

Jonathan Fenske LOVES:
Favorite book as a child: Happy Birthday to You by Dr. Seuss
Favorite book memory you have as a child: Going to the red bookshelf my mom stocked with picture books and picking one to read.
Favorite spot to read a book: In bed before falling asleep!
Favorite place to fly to: We love going home to South Carolina and visiting family…and then taking off for the beautiful beaches there.
Favorite game you played as a child: I liked playing “Sorry!” as a child.
Favorite toy: Legos
Favorite place to look at art: My wife’s sister lives in New York, so anytime we can get there, we soak up the museums and art galleries.
Favorite art memory as a child: As a child growing up in Greenville, S.C., I visited the Greenville Art Museum often. I have such fond memories of the Andrew Wyeth paintings.
How did your family support your interest in reading and art when you were young?
As a child, my parents surrounded me with books. I know my love of illustration comes from reading all of those picture books. My parents were also tolerant of many, many little art projects and sculptures I made. Now that I am a parent, I get to turn around and praise my daughters’ works of art.
Would you like to receive an autographed copy of Love Is In The Air?  Jonathan Fenske graciously accepted my request to give one lucky Growing Book by Book reader just that!
GIVEAWAY GUIDELINES
For your chance to receive an autographed copy of Love Is In The Air by Jonathan Fenske, it’s super easy!  Just leave a comment on this post.  There you go!  Entries will be accepted until 2/18/13 at 9:00 p.m.(CST).  The lucky giveaway winner will be randomly selected the week of 2/18/13 and announced on this site.  I will also contact the winner via email.  The winner has 48 hours to respond with a mailing address or else another entrant will be selected.  Shipping to USA addresses only.  Good luck!
Want to see more of Jonathan Fenske’s work?  Last week, his second book, Guppy Up! (also a Penguin Young Reader) was released!
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About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

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  17. Amy G. says

    Our virtue this past week in my 1st grade class was love, and I rented this from the library! I would love to own it for my room!

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  26. Jayme Hennessy says

    I would love to be able to get this prize. We go to the library each week and check out about twenty books. They get read nightly through the week. My 2nd grader now wants to start reading to us but some of the books are not age appropriate with word knowledge. This book would be though and it would be one that he could keep instead of having to return it the following week.

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  27. Kristie D. says

    This book looks super cute! My niece and nephew would love this. Thanks for the recommendation. kristiedonelson(at)gmail(dot)com Thank you.

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  34. Valerie says

    This looks adorable and my resource room kiddos are always looking for books they can read that also have a good story line. Sounds like it would be a great book buddy story as well!

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  35. Jenna says

    Looks like an adorable book! I haven’t heard of this author before so I appreciate the blog post. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  36. Renee C. says

    Hope you had a great day! I just recently ran across this book – it looks so sweet! 🙂 I’m in Canada, so not eligible, but I’ll tweet about it to my followers.

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  41. Mimi says

    I loved reading about Jonathan and his inspirations and how his love for illustrating grew. I gave me tips on what to do with my little one. I do a great job with displaying her art. Maybe that will encourage her to chase any dreams she may have with art. Thanks for this blog post.

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