31 in 31 is back again!

Yay!
Year Three of 31 in 31 is back!

Here’s all the info you need:

What’s the challenge?
Read 31 different picture books in 31 days.
Yeah, that’s one a day in the month of October.

• Read it aloud.
• Read it to kids.
• Read it to yourself.
• Just read it!

My goal is to try to read picture books that were published in the last few years, but you can read any picture books that you want!

Why?
See this post for more reasons why,
but, basically, I love picture books.

• I’m a picture book writer
• a PiBoIdMo participant,
• and a maniacal picture book reader. (And no, that’s not a bad thing…)

I’m also that person who does not have kids but is ALWAYS excited to
talk to you about a picture book
or even read you one.

How do I participate? 

Participating is SO easy.
If you can read, you can do it! (yes, that means kids too!)
Each day I’ll post about the book I read too.

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS

• follow my blog*, and
• fill in the google form* about what book you read that day.

* following my blog makes it easier for you, really!
Then your comments are approved instantly. Like magic. So amazing.

*this has changed since last year. See reasons why below 🙂

Want to tell us how it was?
Even better.

Can’t make it to the blog everyday?
Hey, I understand.
Come to the blog when you can and feel free to enter info into the spreadsheet on days gone by to catch up!
Or don’t catch up. It’s your choice.
And I’m not judging you!
REALLY!

Can I win things?

Yes, each day you enter info into the form with a book you read, you will be entered to win prizes!
I have 5 or 6 books this year, some of them signed!
I want to keep them a surprise until close to the end!

Prizes include books, signed books, and perhaps some other fun stuff!

So, are you ready to read
and share what you’ve read?

I’m just going to imagine everyone cheering YES! super loud.

Huzzah!

Notes from my third year of doing this:

I’ve learned a few things from doing this every year,
and I hope this year is better than the last!
This year I vow to take better pictures,
and have the posts come to you at a certain time each day.
I’ve been working on formatting them and getting them all scheduled and ready to go,
so this can be super easy for your to participate in.

I’m also saving all the giveaways until the end, because that’s easier for me and means you will get your prize sooner!

Finally, I’m using this google form thing.

It’s really hard and time consuming for me to go back and pull info about what book was read from every comment. I want a way to share the list of awesome books we read! So I thought I’d do this (don’t fill it in right now, just an example of what you’ll see!)

I’ll use all this data to create a MEGA fun list of books we’ve read 🙂
This will also serve as the place I go to get info for giveaways!

You can still leave comments discussing the book you read too.
I love the discussion side of doing this.
That said, I will TRY to respond to every comment, but sometimes I get busy!
Please know that I read them all and I’m so happy that people are participating, reading, and having fun!

Ok!
Let the reading begin!

KE