This contest is now closed. The winner will be notified. The book below is still a break-through so read on.
When I read the new children’s book Monday is One Day
Each page of this book validates some child’s special family — and together all of them acknowledge that although we may drop our little ones off at daycare, we are finding fun things throughout the week to celebrate, until the weekend comes again.
Monday is one day, Tuesday is blue shoes day, and Wednesday is halfway day.
If you think your child would enjoy this story, designed to relieve separation anxiety, here’s a way to get the book — and more — into your hands. Win it from us.
We are super excited about this giveaway because it includes a mini-collection of Scholastic books AND a set of days of the week underwear from Paul Frank. (I know you want these for yourself, too, because I sure do.)
Two (2) winners who comment on this post will receive:
- A copy of Monday is One Day!
- Days of the week undies for a little girl or boy
- 3 additional titles from Scholastic for ages 3+
This bundle is valued at $105 and is courtesy of Scholastic. (Book image courtesy of Scholastic. Copyright 2011 © by Arthur A. Levine. All rights reserved.)
To be entered, tell us what special attribute of YOUR family do you wish to see reflected in a book? Two commenters will be selected at random to win the prizes. Random drawing on Wednesday, June 1, 2011.
My daughter was born prematurely and I would love to see a book about being born early and maybe books for siblings dealing with a little brother or sister in the NICU.
oh jeez. we’re so boring and typical. a mom and a dad, one little chunkey monkey of an 8 month old. one working full time, one working part time. a kinda nutso dog in the mix.
i was FIRST!
LOVE IT!!!
Wow! How awesome! I would love to see our little pet names and sayings for each other reflected in a book. Although, we may be the only ones to think they are funny.
I would love to see our interfaith family represented.
I would love to have all of our silly and quite humorous quirks highlighted.
Our family is a blended family which consists of a Dad who works full time in the oil/gas fields, a crafty stay at home mom, a 2yr old boy and, a 4 mth old boy. Dad has 3 older boys from his first marriage that are only here on the weekends. That creates some interesting interactions, because the 2yr old is the oldest here at the house during the week but isn’t sure how to handle being one of the “little ones” wheb his older brothers are here.
How great! I love that while the nuclear family I grew up in is all white-bread American, we have all found partners of different races, and so our children will have cousins who look totally different than them, and so their view of “family” will become color-blind
There are 6 of us, and modern books seem to cap families at 5.
I would love to see children’s books about donor conception. Books about families created through egg and sperm donation seem to be represented, but those created through embryo donation are more difficult to find.
I’d like to see more books for little ones where both parents work and kids go off to daycare during the day. It’s the reality for so many kids and yet I don’t see it portrayed much in books.
you know, we’re a pretty diverse family… our kid is half samoan, quarter brazilian, and quarter korean.
i’d love more book about mixed race families.
Can I just say that those undies are adorable! I’d almost let my kids go out without getting dressed just to show them off. Reflected in the book our extremely close extended family. My kids think their cousins are their siblings.
I would love to see a book where mommy goes to work every morning and daddy takes care of the baby all day.
I’d love a book that helps kids understand work-at-home parents. It’s hard to explain why kids sometimes go elsewhere for daycare when mom and dad both are home all day working.
What an awesome treat! I agree that the work from home situation poses its own unique challenges. I wish my kids heard a more eloquent explanation for why they can’t just stay home and play. All sorts of scenarios, young children and school age kids too. Also, friends that are like family when your extended relatives are far away.
Our kids have developed very differently from one another. Our daughter learned to speak and read incredibly early, but our son is a very late bloomer. But our son has been playing the violin since he was two, and our daughter can barely remember the tune to The Itsy Bitsy Spider. Sometimes it’s hard not to compare one’s skills to the others, and it’s easy to think, “Oh gosh! He’s not developing anywhere near as well as his sister! Something must be wrong!” But then we remember that there are plenty of things each of them can do very well that the other one couldn’t at their age.
It would be nice to see something similar reflected in a story: Not everyone is the same. Not everyone learns the same way. Not everyone does the same things well. But we all have things unique to us that make us stand out.
Our family is special because of our extended family. With blended families, children should feel special because they have a lot of grandmas… even if we all don’t share blood.
Love those undies! I’m struggling to come up with anything story-worthy about our family. I mean, we’re great but my husband is a farmer and I stay at home with our three boys. Nothing that hasn’t been written a million times.
I’d love to see a book about large, blended extended families. We have lots of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins due to our parents’ divorces and remarriages and I know that’s very common, but it’s not usually reflected in children’s books.
Cute undies!
I need a book about kids with two homes– one with mommy and one with daddy. (Then I’d give it to the preschool, argh). There’s a lot of books about divorce, but few represent true 50/50 arrangements, especially not for kids whose parents never lived together. Instead they’re “why doesn’t daddy live at home anymore”– although I’m sure that also has its place. My kid isn’t grieving the loss of his nuclear family, just having difficulty fitting in with a society that assumes that as the norm.
Yay for biracial kids!! My husband is white and I am Spanish! My son is a perfect combo of his heritage and can’t wait to teach him about roots!!
I would love to have the fact that we’re an interracial family highlighted
That books looks great, and the underwear are awesome! In our house, Daddy stays home and Mommy works full time. It works out perfect for us!
Hum, well we are the full time working family. Daughter in daycare since she was 6 weeks old, both parents working full time jobs and barely scratching by. This book looks incredible! What a great idea to celebrate the differences in families!
Great looking book! I would love to see single working moms shown- especially ones who actively co-parent with the involved father. Having a mommy’s house & a daddy’s house is totally normal for my 3 year old daughter but don’t know how that will go down after preschool…
I’d like to see older parents (like my husband and me) and adult siblings (like my stepdaughters) in a children’s book.
Id be super excited to see a story that cold somehow incorporate a single mom raising a 20month old, who inherited grandpa with alzheimers and a brother with epilepsy. Music and laughter get us through most days.
I’d love to see a book about the loss of a child and how it affects the other children, parents and grandparents. It would be helpful to our family.
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it sounds like monday is one day covers a lot of the things about our family and social circle i’d love to see depicted in a book…in general, i would love to see more female protagonists in books because i want my son to have strong female role models
Our family is special because our toddler speaks to his grandparents on Skype!
I would like to see the involvement of my kids’ grandparents in their lives represented. It makes such a positive difference for them.
I work and my daughter stays home with her daddy most of the time (we also have an awesome grammy who watches her at times too). I would love to see a little girl staying home with daddy as mama goes off to work
I would like to see a book about a big sister (6 yrs or so) can be a role mOdel to her little siblings. Like a little mommy
Our family is a trilingual household. And to help prepare our little girl to communicate with other members of her family as well as for a globalized job market, my husband speaks to her only in French and I only in Spanish. We visit friends with children her age that speak English. Combining all three languages and cultures is an adventure and learning experience in the activities we do and places we visit.
We are a military family and daddy is away on a ship for months at a time.
Our family is special for many reasons, one of them being my children are interracial.
I want a single mom book. But NOT a “where has daddy gone, why doesn’t he live with us” book. My son’s father has not lived with us since DS can remember, and has also not SEEN DS since before he can remember, so the “where’s daddy” books just make my 3 year old confused.
I work at a children’s home. There are increasingly more books about being adopted, but I would love to see more about foster care and life in a group home. These would be great for our kids, but also to help remove the stigma associated with kids who are “in the system”
My family has a working mom and a stay at home dad – it would be nice to see that! ( :
living far from all family
We are pretty standard two working parents house, but all of our family is out of state. It would be nice to see something about log distance extended families.
Hmmm…pretty average family here, but I’d love to see extended bf’ing included in mainstream books aimed at toddlers. Would be fun for DS to see that other toddlers still nurse, too.
I’d love to read a book about a hilarious outspoken vegetarian family, that deals with holidays & bbq’s in positive fun ways.
I will be buying this book, thanks for posting about it!
We move quite a bit for work and I’d love to find a good kids book about leaving friends for a new place. Maybe there are some good ones out there? Suggestions?
that book is adorable!!! i love having so many different types of families represented!!
our little one is due in sept, and i plan to continue running my own business from home, though in a scaled back way. i’d love to see some stories addressing balancing mommy time vs family time. and also it would be nice to see a story that personifies mommies as not just breastfeeders and booboo kissers and carpool drivers etc, but as individuals with personalities too. i think it’s important for kids to see that mommies wear many hats!
I’d like to see maybe a book that involved a language or speech delayed child like my eldest. Or maybe a stay at home dad – I was the working parent our first year. They had loads of fun.
We recently adopted a little baby girl and of course would love to see new and different adoption books that are kid friendly out there, but we are also both elementary teachers.
This year in my class I have three sets of twins and it is hard to find books about twins that kindergarten-age children can relate to. Books about all of the different kinds of twins would be a great addition to my classroom and our unit on families.