Pay it forward

Posted on | January 26, 2010 | 4 Comments

How do you feel about spreading a bit of happiness?…


Just before Christmas Vanessa from Silly Eagle Books invited 3 of her readers to participate in Pay It Forward – a way of spreading some happiness around the blogosphere. I put my name down and in return I recently received a very exciting parcel which contained some real goodies, including a book I first heard of when it was featured on Silly Eagle Books, and which I am very happy to have in my own collection now.

May I Bring a Friend won the Caldecott Medal (an annual prize honouring the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children) in 1965 and is a wonderful book – I shan’t say much more here and now as I suspect I shall do a full-blown post on it in the next couple of weeks, but suffice to say it was a real treat to receive it.

Vanessa knows that our raison d’etre here at Playing by the book is play inspired by the books we read and she very thoughtfully enclosed 2 masks identical to those worn by a set of characters in the book so we’ve been all set up to act out the story – we’ve had lots of fun already!

Having been the lucky recipient of this (almost) random act of kindness it’s now my turn pay it forward. If you would like to receive a surprise gift from Playing by the book…

I’ll then send out a small surprise package to you, wherever you are in this world

Just one aside – If you don’t have a blog I’m not sure how you can participate in this game – if you can work out a way to do it, then let me know and I’ll count you in for the draw.

Thanks again to Vanessa for our gift, and for spreading some happiness I’m looking forward to my chance to spread a bit of joy about too!

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