BIR2010- Author Interview & Prize Pack #2 (The Familiars, Anna and the French Kiss, The Eternal Ones)

We are thrilled to have Adam and Andrew with us today. Their book, The Familiars is on our Top 10 Favorite Reads for Mundie Kids! If you haven't picked it up yet we highly recommend it.

The Familiars

By Adam Jay Epstein & Andrew Jacobson

Published by Harper Collins

Website: http://www.thefamiliars.com/

(from Goodreads)

After three young wizard apprentices are kidnapped by the evil queen of a distant land, it is up to their familiars, their magical animal companions -- a street smart alley cat, a precocious blue jay, and a bumbling tree frog -- to save them.

Favortie Cartoon?

(Andrew) South Park

Adam - The Simpsons

If you could trade your life for that of a fictional character, who would that character be?

(Andrew) Harold from Harold and the Purple Crayon

Adam - Pass... Most fictional characters have too many problems

What was the first book you read?

(Andrew) In 2nd grade, I read Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Charlie Factory

Adam - The Color Kittens Margaret Wise Brown - Definitely one of the first.

If you could jump into any painting which one would it be?

(Andrew) Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Gottfired Helnwein

Adam - Two Tahitian Women by Gauguin

If you could travel by hot air balloon, what would you fly over?

(Andrew) Lambeau Field on Green Bay Packer game days

Adam - The Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania

Thank you Adam and Jay, and thank you to Kathy with I AM A Reader for the questions. Thank you to Harper Collins, we have 1 copy of The Familiars to giveaway! This contest is open to residents of the US & Canada.

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PRIZE PACK #2 Anna and the French Kiss & The Eternal Ones!!

I am so excited about this prize pack, as Anna and the French Kiss is one of my favorite reads of 2010!! This is a must have book!

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

Stephanie's Website:http://stephanieperkins.com/

Book Summary:(from Stephanie's website) Anna was looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. So she's less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris—until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Étienne has it all . . . including a serious girlfriend.

But in the City of Light, wishes have a way of coming true. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with their long-awaited French kiss? Stephanie Perkins keeps the romantic tension crackling and the attraction high in a debut guaranteed to make toes tingle and hearts melt.

The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller

Publisher: Razorbill/Penguin

Release: August 2010

http://www.theeternalones.com/

http://www.kikistrike.com/

Book Summary (from Penguin): Haven Moore can’t control her visions of a past with a boy called Ethan, and a life in New York that ended in fiery tragedy. In our present, she designs beautiful dresses for her classmates with her best friend Beau. Dressmaking keeps her sane, since she lives with her widowed and heartbroken mother in her tyrannical grandmother’s house in Snope City, a tiny town in Tennessee. Then an impossible group of coincidences conspire to force her to flee to New York, to discover who she is, and who she was.

In New York, Haven meets Iain Morrow and is swept into an epic love affair that feels both deeply fated and terribly dangerous. Iain is suspected of murdering a rock star and Haven wonders, could he have murdered her in a past life? She visits the Ouroboros Society and discovers a murky world of reincarnation that stretches across millennia. Haven must discover the secrets hidden in her past lives, and loves, before all is lost and the cycle begins again.

To Enter to win these two fabulous books, leave us a comment & be sure to fill out the entry form below. One winner will win both books. Thank you to Penguin for sponsoring this wonderful giveaway.

All giveaways are open to residents of the US only, unless other wise noted. If you are an International follower and have someone in the US we can send your winnings to, please feel free to enter. All giveaways will end on December 15th. All winners will be announced on Monday December 20th. This is to ensure that we don't have winners winning the same books on the other participating blogs. **Publishers will be mailing out most of the winnings and with Christmas and the holiday rush, books may not be received until after the first of the year.