Happy Birthday, Babies! A Bad-Tempered Book Giveaway

One year ago today, The Barefooted, Bad-Tempered Baby Brigade hit the streets, er, shelves, with protest signs and an anti-mashed peas agenda.  Today it's a First Birthday celebration!

And what better way to celebrate than a giveway?

To be entered in my drawing for a free, signed copy of The Barefooted, Bad-Tempered Baby Brigade, here's what you need to do:

• For your entry in the drawing, all I need is your name - either as a comment in this post, or as an email to deborah [at] deborahdiesen [dot] com

But you know me, I've always got an agenda of my own.  So I'm going to sneak in a little something -- namely, promoting the great array of children's book talent in this state! -- as part of the giveaway.

With this in mind, I'd also like to ask that all entrants:

• Plan to read and/or share with a child a book by a Michigan children's book author or illustrator some time in the next few weeks
• You don't have to tell me which author/illustrator or book -- it's just honor system
• To get you started, there are some Michigan author and illustrator names listed here.  I also welcome recommendations in the comments.  And I'll probably blog some suggestions along the way.

In terms of picking a winner:

• Entries will be taken until April 17th
• Winner will be selected using the official pull-a-name-out-of-the-hat method
• Winner will be announced by April 24th

I think it's probably best that I limit entrants to U.S. and Canada, since I don't know about postage or postal restrictions to other places.  But if you're in another country and really do want to enter, please contact me and I'll look into it further.

I hope you'll enter, and/or encourage folks you know to enter.  On behalf of the babies and myself, thanks for being part of this bad-tempered birthday!