I had the opportunity to take a look at a really cute new children’s book, about a boy named Henry. Henry and the Hidden Vegetable Garden could be about my son. We sat down and read the book together the other night. Then we talked about him trying some new vegetables. He’s all ready to try some new veggies he’s never tried before.

My son likes a few vegetables, but there are several he won’t try. The book suggests kids try vegetables more than once before they decide whether they like them. My son is now willing to try some new flavors.

He’s adopted the book, and he was reading to himself after we finished reading it together. It’s really a cute story, and it gets kids excited about where their food comes from.

Henry and The Hidden Vegetable Garden is about a little boy named Henry who likes TV, video games, and pizza. But he doesn’t care for his vegetables. One night at the supper table when his mother sees him hiding his vegetables, she decides to take action. She takes him to visit his cousin who lives on a farm.

While he’s there his cousin Huck introduces him to vegetables fresh from the garden, and shows him a secret hidden vegetable garden in the woods.

The book was written co-written by Kimberly Williams Paisley, who you may remember as the young bride in "Father of the Bride," and "Father of the Bride 2." She’s married to singer Brad Paisley and currently co-stars in the ABC television sitcom "According to Jim." She has an 18 month old son, Huck, who helps spark her interest in getting children to eat their vegetables.

The book is co-authored by Kimberly’s father, Gurney Williams III. Gourney has been a writer and editor for more than 40 years. He’s also written several previous children’s books.

Henry and the Hidden Vegetable Garden was launched on May 1 to help promote the Love Your Veggies Campaign. The Love Your Veggies Campaign was created to help schools improve their students health and nutrition. You can find out more about the program at the Love Your Veggies website.

I have 5 autographed copies of Henry and The Hidden Garden at one of my other blogs, Robust Cooking to give away to five readers there. 

To win a copy of Henry and The Hidden Vegetable Garden all you have to do is go over to the giveaway post at Robust Cooking and leave a comment, telling us your favorite trick for getting your children to eat their vegetables. Leave your comment before Sunday June 8th at midnight (EST). This contest is open to US residents only. Good luck! Don’t leave a comment here, it won’t count, you have to go to the giveaway post. Good luck!

Henry and the Hidden Veggie Garden image via Amazon

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Thank you to everyone who participated in the Beginning Nature Books Giveaway here at Kid’s Fun Reviewed.

The winner was selected by Random.org.  The winner was comment number 30, Betsy. She says..

Corduroy is my favorite children’s book!

That’s one of my favorite books too. It’s one of the books I bought before my son was born, I’ve loved it since I was a child.

Congratulations, I’ll be contacting you shortly to get delivery information. 

I’ve had a blast with the giveaways this week, and I enjoyed reading all of your comments. I love children’s books, it’s been fun checking out everyone’s favorites.

We have more giveaways coming up. If you don’t want to miss the next giveaway, birthday theme, craft idea, or cake photo here at Kid’s Birthday Fun, subscribe to our feed and check back often.

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We’re giving away 3 Usborne Beginning Nature books, Bears, Eggs and Chicks, and Caterpillars and Butterflies. These books have beautiful photographs, and they’re loaded with information for your budding scientist. 

How can you enter:

• Leave a comment below telling us about your favorite children’s book.
• Enter only time per household by midnight EST on Saturday, April 26.
• The winner will be announced on April 27.
• Contest is open to US residents only.

After you’ve entered click over to my other blog Mother Earth’s Garden for a chance to win a composting book, or Leapin Lemurs, and Penuguin Puffs Envirokidz cereal. After you’re done there click over to the Bloggy Giveaways for hundreds more blog giveaways and contests.

Good luck, and have fun!

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The winner of the Unicorn Races book from Publishing is Lisa O. from Osborn Odds and Ends. The winner was chosen by Random.org. I’ll be contacting Lisa in the next day or so to get her shipping information.

Thanks again to everyone who participated. Keep an eye out for more giveaways coming up in the next several weeks.

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Thank you to everyone who participated in our “Unicorn Races” giveaway. I should have everything sorted out in the next day or so to get a winner posted.

I really appreciate the wonderful response from everyone!

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This list is courtesy of Jennifer at Tree Hugging Family (one of my absolute favorite blogs), and Pregnancy and Baby. Thanks Jennifer for letting me “borrow” this great list!

Tree Hugging Family is giving away an amazing gift package to one lucky reader - smooth organic baby soap and an organic, bamboo, cotton, adorable onesie.

Deb at She Knows Party (another one of my fave blogs) has, “Cake Art” a decorating book from the Culinary Institute of America up for grabs. I love decorating cakes, and this looks like a great book!

WearyParent is giving away the cutest Zoobie Pet ever - if you haven’t heard of Zoobies, you have to go see, it’s a great gift for little ones.

Cyndi has two free magazine give-a-ways / contests going on right now. One is at Layers Upon Layers and the other is at Jewelry & Beading.

At my other blog, Mother Earth’s Garden I have a contest where you might win $30 cold hard cash. What’s better than cash?

Here at The Kid’s Birthday Fun Review you could win a Unicorn Races, beautiful children’s book. NOTE: the children’s book give-a-way is almost over - so hurry!

Gayla, our cool channel editor, and Mom Gadget blogger has a Ultreo Ultrasound Toothbrush contest going on - this is not just any old toothbrush either; go see!

Karen at Thrifty Mommy has a neat Disney book give-a-way (and a blog party going on!) perfect for kids.

Pregnancy and Baby’s got a slick Baby Sign language book contest happening. If you win, you can talk to your babe, before he can speak… how fun is that?

Now, go enter, enter, enter! And good luck.

If you have a contest you’d like me to add, leave it in the comments section, or contact me this weekend and I’ll add it to the list!

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5 Minutes for Mom is hosting The Ultimate Blog Party, and you all know I’m all about parties! Sooo, I’m excited to be able to participate in this party, meet other bloggers, and check out some new blogs. My next love after planning parties is blogging. I’m a blogaholic.

While you’re visiting stop by our current giveaway (a beautiful book called Unicorn Races from Purple Sky Publishing) or leave a comment on this post so I know you were here. I’d love to return the favor.

I love cooking, crafting, cake decorating, and planning children’s parties. I enjoy sharing my favorite ideas and recipes here at the Kid’s Birthday Fun Review. I hope you find the information useful when you’re planning your next holiday, or birthday party.

I’m glad you stopped by, and I hope to see you again!

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Deborah is giving away a copy of “Cake Art” at She Knows Parties. I love cake decorating books, and I thought you all might too. At least it may come in handy when you’re planning your next party.

What do you have to do to get entered? Hop over there and leave an amusing party anecdote in the comments - something funny that happened at a party you attended, or a mishap from a party you planned. A winner will be chosen at random.

Sounds like it will be fun to read all the stories, good luck!

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Purple Sky Publishing sent me a copy of a beautiful new children’s book called Unicorn Races by Stephen J. Brooks. Actually they were kind enough to send me two autographed copies, so I could give one copy away here!

Unicorn Races is a wonderful enchanting story with princesses, unicorns, and fairies. Abigail becomes a princes by night, and flies through the sky on the back of a unicorn to a fairy world. The story is every little girls dream. I love the illustrations they’re bright and sparkly (not sure if that’s really a word, but it’s the best way to describe this book). Children really enjoy bright beautiful pictures, and this book is full of them.

Here’s how you can enter to win an autographed copy of Unicorn Races:

To enter leave a comment on this post. You can also earn an additional entry by posting about this contest on your blog (if you post please let me know in the comment section).

Entries will be accepted until Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 11:59pm EST

Entries are open to residents of the U.S. and Canada.

The winner will be drawn from a random drawing.

Good luck to everyone!

If you can’t wait for the contest you can purchase your own copy of Unicorn Races at Amazon.

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Girly Girl Blog Designs (the wonderful person who designed the theme here at Kid’s Birthday Fun) is giving away a free premade Wordpress blog design, you have to hurry though entries close at midnight tonight (Feb 29th). All you have to do to enter is hop on over and leave a comment on the post. Good luck!

I have my own giveway coming later tonight, stay tuned for more details!

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