Three years ago Sonlight sent out a letter to many of their customers thanking them for choosing their curriculum. Included was a one-of-a-kind print of Norman Rockwell's Land of Enchantment, pictured above, that they had made just for their customers. Originally printed in the December 22, 1934 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, Sonlight had it printed on archival-quality, acid-free paper.
It's a neat picture, filled with characters from various children's stories. However, for three years it has sat in my closet. I'd love for someone to frame and hang it, to enjoy seeing it in their home or workplace. So, I'm giving it away! As Christmas is right around the corner, I'd encourage you to enter to win the print for yourself or to give it to someone you know would love it.
Heads will roll if I find out the winner sold it. Understood? Okey dokey.
I'll give one full day for each year the print has sat in my closet. So, between now and noon on 11/10/09 you can enter the contest by leaving a comment telling me what one of your favorite childhood books was. Only one entry per person. I'm willing to ship anywhere in the United States. I'll do a random drawing and announce the winner before I go to bed on Tuesday night.
As a sidenote, the print is about 12.75 x 23.5 inches (mine actually has a cream colored border around the edge) and you can check out Sonlight's tips for framing the print right here.
12 comments:
One of my favorites was and is Goodnight Moon.
My favorite book as an older child was "Little Women". I still read it at least once a year and it's now my daughter's favorite book too.
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My favorite book growing up was a really old one called "Mrs. Mike" by Benedict and Nancy Freedman.
A story about a new wife living the hard life in the Canadian wilderness. Prairie story...sigh...
I think the best part though was it was my grandmother's copy that I got to read.
Touching history...on several layers.
When I was little my mother had this whole collection of books from her childhood that had hundreds of stories in them. One was the story of 'Little Daylight'- a princess who was cursed to be awake only at night during the full moon and dance.
It was from the book 'The back of the North Wind' and I loved it. Always filled my head with imagination and thoughts of the what-if's.
That is a really neat print, I love Norman Rockwell! One of my favorite books was "Are you my Mother?" It is still a fun one to read!
I just thought of another one that I loved to read when I went to my Grandma's house, it was about the man with the purple house, that may have been the title, I don't remember. She still has it at her house and I still love to read it whenever we go there!
Do Pippy Longstocking movies count?
Simone - I don't know if we can be friends. I can't stand that book. :)
Dad - Books. Not movies. Quit trying to argue the rules.
Everyone else - You're giving me some library ideas!!
I have some of the best memories of my mom reading the Little House on the Prairie series to my sister and I. We would sit for hours and hours on her lap in the brown plaid rocker and beg her to read "just one more chapter." This past summer when we took our trip to SD we stopped in MN at the homestead on Plum Creek. It was such a perfect summer day, and I could just imagine Laura and Mary splashing around right where I was standing.
I also remember a really cool book of Norman Rockwell paintings that my mom purchased from a book club. My sister and I would sit for hours just looking at all of the cool details that he included in each of his paintings. I wasn't one of the lucky ones to receive this print, but it would look perfect in my newly painted family room! ;-)
One of my favorite children's books is The Big Bad Pig and the Three Little Wolves, but my favorite as a child was Pickle Chiffon Pie - I wish I could find a copy of it!
I loved the Betsy-Tacy books, especially Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill.
The book I have the most memories of is Mike Mulligan. It was upstairs at my PawPaw's house when I was growing up and I would read it every time I was over there.
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