On the seventh day of giveaway...

...she attempts to pick up the pace a bit by swearing that there are no more talks coming up any time soon, so no excuses not to get this ball rolling. Especially since I can't start mailing until this whole thing is done, since I'm a softy who allows multiple winners (always provided, of course, that one person does not sweep the whole darned giveaway, since that would hurt my softy heart).

First: many thanks to the lovely comments on my last couple of postings. You're keeping me going. Thank you.

Second: the winner of 365 Ways To Live Cheap! (actual exclamation point included in title) is:

Prlegl, she (or he) of the unpronounceable name! Is she a paralegal? A pearl eagle? We don't know! We just know she owns a new book!

Congratulations! Send me your mailing address!

Okay, this next giveaway is a wee little one. It's a great book, but it's water-damaged. None of the words or pictures are smeared or affected in any way other than the fact that the pages have an odd little bulge to them. It's not moldy or mildewy or ANYTHING like that; but unlike the other books I've given away so far, this one is not in new condition.

But it's a terrific picture book, aimed at young readers, so it'd be thrashed after a week in your house anyway.

It came to me in this condition because I requested a review copy and it's put out by a tiny publisher. They could not afford to send a free copy in perfect condition. I have so been there, and that's not my sarcasm voice. That's the voice of the person who was so broke she couldn't afford to send out review copies of her mag for the first few months of its life, and whose head would explode when civilians would ask for a "sample" copy of a 60+ page journal that came out every three months, so they could read it and decide if they liked it enough to remember to pay for a copy a few months later.

Whoops. Sorry. The Bitter Homeschooler just butted in there, as if she doesn't have her own place to kvetch.

Anyway. The book is: I Am Learning All The Time, by Rain Perry Fordyce, illustrated by Audrey Anne Miles Cherney.

This is a great story. There are two things I especially appreciate about it: it says "hooray for homeschooling" without trashing public school, and it brings up legitimate issues that young homeschoolers are sometimes puzzled and/or unhappy about. No, you don't get to ride on a school bus. And you don't have a lunch box. And yes, people will continue to ask you why you're not in school today until you're old enough to vote. Now, here's the cool stuff you get to do.

The book has a great site, Homeschool Adventure Books:

http://www.homeschooladventurebooks.com/

Who wants a free copy?

The offer of doubling your chances of winning still stands for mentioning SHM on your blog, loop, tweet, or whatever it is you kids do these days — please send me a link. And, again, you can triple your chance of winning for mentioning that we are looking for articles big and small, and can pay a little cash money or a nice free subscription for materials.