Holiday 2010 Giveaway: Guinness World Records 2011 (Hardcover Book) [CLOSED]

The Guinness Book of World Records is a yearly publication that is always highly anticipated. Filled with interesting, unique, crazy, and sometimes weird and creepy records, it is sure to entertain children and adults of all ages. The 2011 edition does not disappoint. From the hairiest family to the most weight lifted by a tongue, this book definitely delivers on being a Guinness treasure.

We all really enjoyed reading this book and looking at the pictures. The little ones were particularly intrigued by the photos of all the records while we read the text to them. My nine year old, Avery, has been asking for this book for Christmas, so he hasn’t seen it yet but I know he will be elated because he is a true Guinness fan. If you’re a fan of the Guinness World Records Book, the 2011 edition lives up to the standard Guinness has set in the past.

For more information about Guinness or the book, including where to buy, check out their website, GuinnessWorldRecords.com . The Guinness Book of World Records retails for $28.95 and can be purchased at many places including Wal-Mart, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Borders. The ebook version is also available to U.S. and Canadian residents for $12.99 .

Thank you to Guinness World Records for sending us a complimentary product sample to base this review upon and for providing a second book for our contest prize.

What you can win:
One lucky reader will receive a hardcover copy of the "Guinness World Records 2011".

Limitations:

This giveaway is open to U.S. entries only. You do not need to be a blogger to enter, but you must have a valid email address and be age 18 years or older. If you enter anonymously and do not include a valid email address in your comment entries, I will not be able to notify you should you win this random drawing.

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Leave a comment telling me what world record you would want to break. You MUST do this to be eligible to win this contest.

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Random Drawing:

This contest will be closed on Monday, January 3rd, 2011 at 11:59pm EST. A random number drawing will be held shortly after. The winner will be announced here and will be contact via email or through their blog. If the winner does not respond within 48 hours, a new number will be drawn.

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Announcement: Scholastic Children’s Dictionary Back-To-School Blog Tour

I am excited to announce that the Scholastic Children's Dictionary Back-To-School Blog Tour begins today! I am even more excited to tell you that 3 Garnets & 2 Sapphires is going to be one of the stops on this tour. What does that mean for you? That means you have an extra-generous giveaway to look forward to at every blog listed below.

Start off by visiting Piera at Jolly Mom today! If you love giveaways, then you are going to have a fun two weeks courtesy of Scholastic books. Don't forget to come back here on August 19th to see what I have in store for you!!

1. July 23rd ~ Jolly Mom
2. July 26th ~ Momma Findings
3. July 28th ~ The Mommy-Files
4. July 30th ~ The Dirty Shirt
5. August 2nd ~ 1StopMom
6. August 4th ~ MommyMandy
7. August 5th ~ Guessing All The Way
8. August 6th ~ Serendipity Mommy
9. August 9th ~ The Divine Miss Mommy
10. August 11th ~ From Dates To Diapers
11. August 12th ~ MomDot
12. August 16th ~ My Sentiments ExactLee
13. August 18th ~ Mommy Niri
14. August 19th ~ 3 Garnets & 2 Sapphires
15. August 20th ~ Mom Knows It All

Review: "Guinness World Records 2010" The Book of the Decade

I recently had the pleasure of introducing the wonderful world of Guinness World Records to our kindergartner. He just turned 6 and is at the perfect age where he can understand the magnitude of some of these world records enough to be extremely impressed by them.

The layout of each page is categorized, so that the information is presented in an organized fashion, but also is visually dynamic at the same time. Every page is packed with images. In fact, there is so much information to take in on each page, my son and I look through about a dozen pages at a time. We have still yet to look through the entire book.

Although my son is a beginner reader, he can understand much of this book independently because of the many images. It is clear to him when the record involves something being the largest in the world. He has also come to recognize the words "actual size" which appear on several images in this book.

So far, I think my son is most impressed by the tallest man in the world. He was in awe when I explained that this man was almost 3 feet taller than his own father, whom he thinks is extremely tall at 6ft. He even went as far as questioning whether the things I showed him in this book were fictional and staged. I assured him that they were not and he was again in awe.

To learn more about the current Guinness World Records and about how to set a new record, visit GuinnessWorldRecords.com . You should be able to find the Guinness World Records 2010 book at your local bookstores and online at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Borders. To keep up with the latest Guinness news, you can follow Guinness World Records on Twitter.

Thank you to Guinness World Records for sending us a book on which to base this review.