Pratham Books’ Weave a Dream Competition

Sunday, January 16th, 2011

Pratham Books are running a contest to celebrate their new book Mumtaz Embroiders Her Dreams. Girls aged 8-14 are asked to send in no more than 200 words, telling them what their dream is and why it is important to them.

Boys can enter too, by asking a girl about her dream and writing about it – in the same way that in the book, “thanks to her friend Munna, Mumtaz dreams and learns even more than she had imagined!”

All entries will be posted on Pratham Books’ blog and the top 5 entries chosen by their editorial team will win a book hamper – but hurry: the deadline for entries is 20 January. For full details from Pratham Books, go here.

Peacebuilders Essay competition

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Peacebuilders by M. LaVora Perry (Forest Hill publishing, 2010)In the build-up to the launch of her new book, Peacebuilders: Daisaku Ikeda & Josei Toda, Buddhist Leaders, a Biography, author M. LaVora Perry has launched an essay competition for kids right through from K-12 – that’s 5-18 year olds. Divided into three age-groups, there’s a choice of essay titles about building peace. Deadline for entries is 11:59 P.M. US Ohio time on the book launch date, Tuesday, March 16, 2010.

Older Brother and Little Brother have just watched the trailers (both the long and short version) and are resolved to read the book – we’ll be reviewing it soon on PaperTigers. And I also want to find out a bit more about Daisaku Ikeda’s children’s books