Congrats to the following readers:

1. Sikulu & Harambe by the Zambezi River Book

• Donna K
• Jeffrey W (finally we have a male winner???)

2. PZI Jeans Giveaway

Cathy B

3. Sothy’s At Home Spa Kit Giveaway

Cat @ 3 Kids and Us

All winner(s) are required to do the following:

1. Submit your relevant info via the Winner’s Submission Form Below; AND
2. Leave a comment in this post to let us know you have submitted. 
3. If the winner(s) does not claim her prize by the 9th January 2009, the prize(s) will be forfeited.

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED!

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GIVEAWAY CLOSED!

From the highly acclaimed author of Sex and The City and Lipstick Jungle, Candace Bushnell brings to you her latest novel, One Fifth Avenue. Here’s a sneak peek of the book taken from an excerpt of Every Woman’s Voice :

One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over one of Manhattan’s oldest and most historically hip neighborhoods, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into—one way or another. For the women in Candace Bushnell’s new novel, One Fifth Avenue, this edifice is essential to the lives they’ve carefully established—or hope to establish. From the hedge fund king’s wife to the aging gossip columnist to the free-spirited actress (a recent refugee from L.A.), each person’s game plan for a rich life comes together under the soaring roof of this landmark building.

Acutely observed and mercilessly witty, One Fifth Avenue is a modern-day story of old and new money, that same combustible mix that Edith Wharton mastered in her novels about New York’s Gilded Age and F. Scott Fitzgerald illuminated in his Jazz Age tales. Many decades later, Bushnell’s New Yorkers suffer the same passions as those fictional Manhattanites from eras past: They thirst for power, for social prominence, and for marriages that are successful—at least to the public eye. But Bushnell is an original, and One Fifth Avenue is so fresh that it reads as if sexual politics, real estate theft, and fortunes lost in a day have never happened before.

If you want to know how this book fared among our parent reviewers, check out our reviews here!

WIN IT: Thanks to Hyperion Books, we’re giving away three copies of One Fifth Avenue. If you’re interested to win one of them, here’s what you need to do:

• Tell us one fact about the author, Candace Bushnell OR name TWO characters from the book, One Fifth Avenue.
• 3 additional entries if you:

• Subscribe to our site via email, which will also entitle you to a monthly prize draw. Button to sign up is on the right hand side bar. Please use the same email add in your comment so that we can verify your signup. Existing email subscribers are also eligible AND/OR
• AND/OR
• Blog About this giveaway with a link back to this post. Please leave your post url.
• Contest is open to all location that the USPS is able to ship to.
• Contest closes on 11th January 2008 and winners will be picked using Random.Org.

We would love to reward ALL our subscribers but since we are only able to track email subscribers, we would like to encourage everyone to subscribe through this method. In appreciation for your effort to support us through email subscription, effective January 2009, Parent Reviewers will have a monthly prize draw exclusively for email subscribers only. This will also include those who are currently subscribed via emails.

The number of prizes will vary each month (depending on sponsors) and a post announcing the prizes will be posted on our site every first week of the month. In order for your email add to remain confidential, winner(s) will be contacted via email of your winning entry. However, we will be posting the result in the following month’s prize announcement post once we have the winner’s name.

The prizes for our January 2009 email subscribers monthly prize draw is sponsored by Belli Skincare, the world’s safest skincare line available to address the specific issues of pregnant women, new moms and babies. Belli is recommended by leading obstetricians across the country.  All products incorporate the best and nontoxic ingredients from science and nature with the benefits of aromatherapy and massage therapy for a holistic wellness approach.  Founded in 2002 by doctor and mom team Jason and Annette Rubin, Belli skincare products are researched and carefully tested while undergoing extensive teratology screening, the study of chemicals that are harmful to the developing fetus.  Additionally, every product is allergy tested and free of dyes and parabens.

The following prizes will ship to US and Canada addresses only:

1. 1 Belli Pregnancy Product Winner : Skin Smoothing Body Exfoliator.  A luxurious blend of medically-researched ingredients that helps protect against stretchmarks. Features Gotu Kola Extract, Vitamin E and Collagen Hydrolysates and lavender and sweet almond oil soothe to calm, nourish and moisturize. Retail cost: $24

2. 1 Belli Baby Product Winner :  Nourish Me Enriched Body Cream. This pure and gentle hydrating cream features the essential oil of chamomile to soften and soothe. Retail cost: $19

3. 1 1 Belli Baby Product Winner : Calm Me Hair and Body Wash. It cleanses and moistures and  features the essential oil of  marigold and chamomile to soften and soothe. Retail cost: $18

4. 1 Belli Motherhood Product Winner : Stretchmark Minimizing Cream. A healing skin reparative treatment specifically formulated to decrease the appearance of existing stretchmarks. Features darutoside and registril – ingredients shown in independent clinical trials to be effective on stretchmarks of any age or from any cause. Retail cost: $52

YES, we’ll have FOUR prizes this round and it’s so easy to win! What are you waiting for? Our email subscription button is available on our sidebar.

I know many of you are anxiously waiting for the results and boy, there certainly are a lot of winners to announce today. Congratulations to our following readers:

1. MEGA Xmas & New Year Kick Off Giveaway Winners

1. Keyomi – winner of $25 Sew Cute GC

2. Terri – winner of Sunny’s Adventures

3. Hayley G. - winner of Knotheads

4. Rebecca C – winner of Knotheads

5. Judy Brittle – winner of Sunny’s Adventures

6. Valery Vargo – $100 GC from Kangaroodle

[We were expecting at least 268 comments but there were only 175 valid entries. Due to obligation to our sponsors, we have closed the giveaway. As such, three winners were picked using Random.org]

2. Love To Travel Products Giveaway Winners

Whoisbaby – winner of KidsTRAYblecloth

Plus Size Mommy – winner of Executive TRAYblecloth

3. Brainquest Workbooks Giveaway Winners

Lily Kwan – winner of Grade 4 workbook

Staci A – winner of  Kindergarten (Ages 5-6) workbook

4. Huru Humis Giveaway Winners

 1. Susan Varney

2. Samantha Pruitt

3. Gina

All winners are required to do the following:

1. Submit your relevant info via the Winner’s Submission Form Below; AND
2. Leave a comment in this post to let us know you have submitted. 
3. If the winner(s) does not claim her prize by the 4th January 2009, we will be doing a second random draw.

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED!

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