0 Guest Post: Picture Book giveaway for Military families

A Story Before Bed and Sourcebooks Partner to Give Away Bestselling Picture Book to Military Families this Valentine’s Day!

(February 9, 2011)—A Story Before Bed (www.astorybeforebed.com) has given away over 85,000 free recordable children’s eBooks to deployed and deploying parents in the U.S. Armed Forces. These stories, recordable and viewable on the online children’s book service, help keep families connected through long separations.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, A Story Before Bed is partnering with Sourcebooks to provide the bestselling picture book, I Love You More by Laura Duksta, and illustrated by Karen Keesler for *free* to military subscribers.  The free promotion starts TODAY February 9^th, 2011 (ending Thursday, February 24^th).

I Love You More is a perfect Valentine’s Day gift for a child or a parent, and Sourcebooks and A Story Before Bed are thrilled to make a recording of the book available free to military families. Existing military subscribers can use their regular subscription code to redeem I Love You More recordings through the site. Deployed or deploying military families who have yet to subscribe to our service can head to www.astorybeforebed.com/military to apply for a free subscription.

Thanks to all the military families for their sacrifice and service. We appreciate everything you do and hope this lovely book will help bring joy and love to this Valentine’s Day.

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A Story Before Bed (www.astorybeforebed.com) is the first and only service on the web that lets parents and grandparents record videos of themselves reading children’s books into their webcam. Kids can play back the recordings synchronized with the pages of the digital children’s book as often as they like in their web browser, and even on their iPad or iPhone via the free A Story Before Bed App in the App Store. The library currently has over 250 books for your reading and recording enjoyment and more are being added all the time. Additionally, A Story Before Bed won a Publishing Innovation Award at the recent Digital Book World Conference in New York City in the Children’s category.

Sourcebooks is a forward-thinking, independent publishing house with a passion for books and a dedication to the belief that books change lives.  We are committed to innovative publishing, where every book is personal and every author’s voice has a place.  We are a group of passionate, energetic and enthusiastic book lovers, and we are committed to helping readers experience each book.  Sourcebooks has over 70 employees, publishes over 300 new titles each year, and celebrates their success with 15 New York Times Bestsellers.  Sourcebooks is proud to be the largest woman-owned book publisher in the country.  Visit www.sourcebooks.com for more information, and check out the Sourcebooks blog.