Share your tips for getting your kids ready to go back to school and get book sets from HarperCollins!

We’re wrapping up our summer of fun HarperCollins blogging programs with a special Back to School edition. The TwitterMoms Reading Channel is filling up with tons of great content from the Fancy Nancy and I Can Read! blog posts. We can’t wait to read all your new submissions during this blogging campaign. Keep reading to find out how you can participate!

It’s that time of year again, moms. It’s time for your children to go back to school. There’s no better way to get ready for this challenge than by kicking off the back-to-school season with brand-new back-to-school books!

For the first day of kindergarten or for the old pros of first and second grades, these books make going back to school a snap! This all-star line-up features your children’s favorite characters in sweet stories full of excitement, adventure, and discovery.

Browse Inside Kindergarten Diary

We’re excited to learn how the moms help their little ones get ready for the first day of school. How do you plan on helping your kindergarten stars prepare for their first day of “big-kid school”? Annalina from Kindergarten Diary has some great tips for this special milestone. You can download Annalina’s first day of school checklist to help your little students organize for the big day. Planning together can be a fun way to reduce a child’s fear and anxiety in an unfamiliar setting. Are you ready for kindergarten? Here's a checklist to help you prepare!

Browse Inside Rules for School

And what about moms with kids that are old pros of school? Do you and your children share any back-to-school traditions? Do you have a delectable breakfast together on the first morning of the new school year? Or do you shop for a dazzling first-day-of-school outfit? Let eleven year-old advice guru Alec Greven guide your elementary school kids through the school halls with the tried-and-true school rules he’s collected along the way in Rules for School. Alec covers essentials such as how to work the playground, find the right seat on the school bus, and get homework done on time.

Browse Inside There's No Place Like School

Don’t forget to share these important back-to-school tips with your children:

Get enough sleep each night.
Eat a healthy breakfast each morning.
Always go to school prepared. It might help to pick out your school outfit, pack your lunch, and organize your backpack the night before so there’s no rushing the next morning.
If you don’t understand something, always ask your teacher.
Try your best at everything you do.
Smile!

Read also:

Browse Inside One Smart Cookie

Click to learn about other back-to-school titles!

Good luck on acing the first day of school! We’re looking forward to reading your posts! Please be sure to incorporate some of this background information in your blog post, or reference more information on the books mentioned above.

How it works:

Create a post on your blog sharing your tips for getting your kids ready to go back to school. Post the campaign widget in the sidebar of your blog. Make sure you include the disclosure below in your blog. Tweet a link to your blog with the hashtag #HCBTS, then follow the rest of the requirements below. The first 50 qualified participants will receive a signed copy of Al Greven’s book “Rules for School” and a copy of “A Light in the Attic Special Edition” by Shel Silverstein. Three randomly selected participants will win all 8 titles that are featured in the HarperCollins back to school sweepstakes.

Your posts will be collected and featured on the TwitterMoms Reading Channel http://reading.twittermoms.com, and distributed across the web for all to see. The blogging program starts on August 3, 2010 and the submission window closes at 11:59pm PST on August 31, 2010. We will contact the people whose submissions have been selected on or about September 7, 2010.

Rewards for Participating:

The first 50 qualified participants will receive a signed copy of Al Greven’s book “Rules for School” and a copy of “A Light in the Attic Special Edition” by Shel Silverstein. Please review terms and conditions here.

Three randomly selected participants will win all 8 titles that are featured in the HarperCollins back to school sweepstakes. See official rules here.

Requirements:

To participate, we ask that you:

1. Create a blog post on your blog sharing "Tips for getting your kids ready to go back to school" in 400 words or more.

2. Participants must include the following disclaimer as a footnote of their post:

“I wrote this blog post while participating in the TwitterMoms blogging program to be eligible to get a HarperCollins book set. For more information on how you can participate, click here.”

3. Install the campaign widget in the side bar of your blog

Get widget here

4. Log on to your Twitter account, www.twitter.com, and send a tweet with the hashtag #HCBTS and a link to your blog post.

5. Return to www.TwitterMoms.com and post a comment on this discussion page in the comments section below, including an active link to your qualifying blog post and a direct link to your Twitter tweet. (You can click on the date/time link below your tweet to get the direct link to your tweet.)

6. Fill in this address collection form so we can send you your loot once we review your posts for compliance!

Eligibility:

No purchase required to participate. You must be a legal resident of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia, have a personal blog and be a registered user of the www.twittermoms.com and www.twitter.com websites to participate and at least 18 years of age or older at time of submission. See Terms and Conditions.

About HarperCollins Children's Books:

HarperCollins Children’s Books is one of the leading publishers of children’s books. Respected worldwide for its tradition of publishing quality books for children, HarperCollins is home to many of the classics of children's literature, including Goodnight Moon, Where the Wild Things Are, The Giving Tree, Charlotte's Web, Ramona, Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, the I Can Read! beginning reader series and countless award-winning titles. HarperCollins Children's Books is a division of HarperCollins Publishers, one of the leading English-language publishers in the world. Visit HarperCollins Children's Books at www.harpercollinschildrens.com

Tags: Back-to-School, Children's Books, HarperCollins

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Permalink Reply by Judy J on August 3, 2010 at 3:57pm

Thanks!

http://www.healthbeautychildrenandfamily.com/2010/08/tips-for-getti... and https://twitter.com/stayingyoung2/status/20256629331

Permalink Reply by Ana Anselmo on August 3, 2010 at 4:00pm

Here is my post:
http://floridafrugalfamily.blogspot.com/2010/08/tips-for-getting-yo...

The widget is on my sidebar.

Here is my Twitter Status:
#HCBTS - http://floridafrugalfamily.blogspot.com/2010/08/tips-for-getting-yo... 2 minutes ago via web

Address form filled out.

Permalink Reply by Ana Anselmo on August 3, 2010 at 4:03pm

Direct link to Twitter status:
http://twitter.com/FlFrugalFamily/status/20256714123

Ana Anselmo said:

Here is my post:
http://floridafrugalfamily.blogspot.com/2010/08/tips-for-getting-yo...

The widget is on my sidebar.

Here is my Twitter Status:
#HCBTS - http://floridafrugalfamily.blogspot.com/2010/08/tips-for-getting-yo... 2 minutes ago via web

Address form filled out.

Permalink Reply by Rebekah Davis on August 3, 2010 at 4:21pm

Another great blogging opportunity! Thanks! Can't wait to share these great books with my kiddos!

Here's my post: http://www.twothriftysisters.com/2010/08/03/tips-for-getting-your-k...

And my tweet: http://twitter.com/2thriftysisters/status/20258031247

Permalink Reply by FrugalMom on August 3, 2010 at 4:23pm

What a great opportunity:

My blog post: http://www.frugalityisfree.com/2010/08/10-tips-for-getting-your-kid... (Find it here)

Twitter link: http://twitter.com/JRFrugalMom/statuses/20257902192 (Find it Here)

The widget is on my sidebar at Frugality Is Free

Filled in address form.

Thanks!!

JRFrugalMom

Permalink Reply by Joelle Gropper Kaufman on August 3, 2010 at 4:26pm

We've started the re-entry process for Back to school and my nine tips are here.

First tip - don't stop reading!
Second tip - make cleaning the desks fun.

Read the rest of the tips.

Twitter Link

And the widget is on my sidebar at Practical Parenting

Permalink Reply by micki/add housewife on August 3, 2010 at 4:35pm