MotherReader

First, a repeat from the last post with the winners of The Fifth Annual 48 Hour Book Challenge are:

• LiyanaLand!
  Featuring a teen from Singapore
  
• Everyone has a Blue Castle...
  Featuring a librarian from Maryland
  
• The Purpled One
  Featuring a woman who started her blog for the 48HBC
  

Absolutely amazing readers who will have to tell us more about how they stayed awake through all of those reading/blogging hours. And maybe how they kept people — like moms, for instance — from engaging them in hour-long phone conversations. I’ll be in touch with your about the super prize packages!

Now, more prizes! I have books for participants selected with the Random Integer Generator. Participants had to complete twelve hours of reading/blogging/networking to be eligible for prizes. In the order drawn, the winners are:

• Jaimie from Three Cheers for Literacy
  
• Heather from Geeky Reads
  
• Maggi from Mamma Librarian
  
• Tricia from Teens@CPL
  
• Beth from Library Chicken
  

Prize winners, please write me at MotherReader AT gmail DOT com with your address, and the books you’d most be interested in receiving. If you’d like a personalized copy, please note to whom you’d like it signed; I’ll do my best to accommodate. (Choices include: signed copy of The Cardturner, personalized, signed copy of Seaglass Summer, personalized, signed copy of Operation Yes, personlized, signed copy of The Secrets of the Cheese Syndicate; a personalized, signed book selection from Melissa Wiley’s Little House books and — in an ironic turn for MotherReader — author/illustrator signed copy of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.)

For the Fifth Annual 48 Hour Book Challenge we had almost a hundred people complete the challenge with fifty-five blogs listing totals of twenty hours or more. Here in order of their finish line sign-in are:

48 Hour Book Challenge Twenty Hours Club

1. MotherReader 28.5 hours
   
2. Over the Moon and Sun 41.5 hours
   
3. The Fourth Musketeer 22.5 hours
   
4. Lessons from the Tortoise 20 hours
   
5. Books Like Breathing 43.5 hours
   
6. Blue Castle 48 hours
   
7. Reading Chick 22.25 hours
   
8. A Patchwork of Books 26.5 hours
   
9. The Dimly Seen 23.25 hours
   
10. Teens@CPL 24 hours
    
11. Book Nut 22.75 hours
    
12. A Moment With Mystee 43.5 hours
    
13. BookLoss 26.5 hours
    
14. Bibliovore 24.5 hours
    
15. Madigan Reads 31 hours
    
16. The Literary Wife 22 hours
    
17. A Room Without Books Is Empty 22 hours
    
18. House of Crawford 22 hours
    
19. Book Clutter 22 hours
    
20. The Lost Entwife 26 hours
    
21. Blog from the Windowsill 27.75 hours
    
22. What We Read 26.5 hours
    
23. Situations Where You May Need It 30 hours
    
24. Two Canadian Readers 22 hours
    
25. So Many Books... 27 hours
    
26. Reading with Tequila 23.75
    
27. Abby the Librarian 28.75 hours
    
28. Charlotte’s Library 25 hours
    
29. (LiyanaLand! 48 hours
    
30. Reading and Writing from Red Stick 22 hours
    
31. The Book Maven 23.5 hours
    
32. Becky’s Book Reviews 25 hours
    
33. Ms. Martin Teaches Media 26 hours
    
34. My Favoritest 22 hours
    
35. Stiletto Storytime 21.25 hours
    
36. The Purpled One 48 hours
    
37. Nomad Librarian 24 hours
    
38. Musings of a Book Addict 24.5 hours
    
39. Lost in the Library 23.5 hours
    
40. Biblio File 33 hours
    
41. Literate Lives 20 hours
    
42. Lucy Was Robbed 20 hours
    
43. The Infinite Shelf 22 hours
    
44. Mama Librarian 30.5 hours
    
45. Darkly Reading 21.5 hours
    
46. Sonderbooks 26.75 hours
    
47. Library Chicken 31 hours
    
48. BookMoot 25.5 hours
    
49. Trisha at The YA YA YAs 20.5
    
50. Bookgazing 21.75
    
51. Karen at GHHS Library 28 hours
    
52. Geeky Blogger’s Book Blog 21.25 hours
    
53. The Neverending Shelf 22.5 hours
    
54. I’d So Rather Be Reading 24 hours
    
55. One Librarian’s Book Reviews 24.25 hours
    

Many bloggers also connected their personal readathons with a cause. As I know it now, here’s a list of Blogging for The Greater Good:

• Biblio File — $725.54 to Room to Read
  
• Blue Castle — $75.25 to a couple adopting a baby boy from Ethiopia.
  
• Blog from the Windowsill — $25 to Friends of the Library
  
• Boys Rule! Boys Read — $80 for Charlotte Mecklenburg library
  
• Book Clutter — $22 to Love146
  
• Check It Out — $25 to Fanconi Anemia Research fund
  
• Cybermac — $12 to a local education fund
  
• Deraps Reads $10 to Donors Choose
  
• Imaginary Dreamer $50 to Donors Choose
  
• Infinite Shelf — $20 to gulf clean-up
  
• Library Chicken — $49 to local library
  
• Literate Lives — $28 to Welcome Warehouse
  
• Liyanaland — $48 to local literacy charity
  
• Mama Librarian — $32 to Little Lake Free School
  
• A Moment with Mystee — $48 to ASPCA
  
• A Patchwork of Books $27.00 to DC School from Donors choose
  
• Readers Carousel — $45 CureSearch
  
• Reading Chick — $44.50 International Bird Rescue Center
  
• Reno, the Girl — 14 books to her library
  
• A Room without Books is Empty — $22 to Donors Choose
  
• Situations Where You May Need It — $45 for Alpine Valley School
  
• So Many Books… — 27 Euros to Books for Africa
  
• Two Canadian Readers — $44 to Literacy Group
  
• Two Canadian Readers — $27.50 to Central Asia Institute
  

Visit the blogs above for more information about their specific causes. Since I wasn’t always able to determine the amount or exact cause, I am happy to accept corrections or additions to this list.

Though I hadn’t announced this, we are able to give a prize to the person who raised the most money for charity — which is Jennie of Biblio File! She’ll get a lovely necklace from Hoolala. Based on the number of finishers who have signed out and those I know to have done the challenge but not yet signed out, I’ll be donating $100 to a project at this DC School through Donors Choose.

Thanks to all the authors and bloggers who contributed prizes. Special thanks go to Carol Rasco from RIF, who will be donating multicultural library collections for schools or other youth-serving organizations — as chosen by the top three winners! Another special thanks to Kristen from Blue Castle, who donated the most beautiful necklaces from Hoolala and coin purses made from fabrics used in the Shakespeare Theatre plays in DC. Thanks to all of the bloggers who mentioned, tweeted about, and otherwise promoted the 48 Hour Book Challenge. We would never have had such a fantastic turnout without your help. Thanks to the bloggers who supported a cause — and supported each other in raising money. Of course, thanks to all of you who participated and made this such a special, amazing, fabulous event! I couldn’t, wouldn’t, shouldn’t do it without you all!