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Well, here we are at the end of the ABC Giveaway! I’ve had fun putting it together, and I hope that you’ve enjoyed the book suggestions and storytime ideas. But now it’s time to close up shop and announce our winners, who were selected by random numbers generated at Random.org.

Winning the books reviewed throughout the ABC Giveaway series is Karen, a children’s librarian in Utah who gave some wonderful book suggestions for future alphabet storytimes.

Winning the second ABC set of Cybils-nominated books is Katie, a school librarian in Baltimore, Maryland, who blogs at Book Love.

And for commenting on every single ABC Giveaway post, a bonus prize of five Cybils-nominated titles goes to Aaron, an illustrator from Michigan, who blogs at Bookie Woogie and Chicken Nugget Lemon Tooty.

Congratulations to you all! Please drop me a line at MotherReader AT gmail DOT com so that I can arrange shipping for your prizes.

Thanks again to everyone for playing along and promoting the giveaway. Maybe we can do it again sometime next year. For now, I need to concentrate on the holiday season — maybe share some Christmas book favorites or add more Ways to Give a Book. I have mentioned that I’ve worked hard to make your holiday shopping easier by pairing MotherReader-approved books with other gift ideas — often including links to the actual gifts — which I’ve selected from Amazon for price, appeal, and age-appropriateness, right? Yeah, I probably said something about that. Let me also make it clear that I get a small referral fee if those items or any other items are purchased at Amazon if you come from this site, and that little bit of income helps to support this website and giveaways. So, you know, shop away!