

This giveaway has now closed.
Congratulations to winner Tracy Balen.
To celebrate the launch of Usborne’s brand-new Very First Reading books, Hearditintheplayground have teamed up with Usborne to offer you the chance to win a set of all fifteen books in the series – a prize worth nearly £75 in total!
The Very First Reading titles are all bea
utifully illustrated hardback books, designed to help children to get to grips with learning to read by employing the synthetic phonics system, as widely used in UK schools, in a fresh and innovative way. Read our review of the series to find out more.
All fifteen books are due to be published on 26th March, priced £4.99 each (a boxset of all fifteen titles will also be available). The Parents’ Guide to Usborne Very First Reading will be available with any purchase from the series, and is included in the Usborne Very First Reading boxset.
For more information on the series, plus extensive online resources visit
www.usborne.com/veryfirstreading
The giveaway will remain open until midnight, 31 March 2010. To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment below. The winner will comprise of the first name to be randomly selected after the giveaway has closed. Only one entry per person. This giveaway is only open to UK residents. For further terms and conditions see below. Good luck!
Terms and Conditions – Usborne Very First reading giveaway
1. To enter leave a comment about this giveaway in the ‘leave a reply’ section below.
2. One entry per person.
3. Duplicate entries will be removed.
4. Winners will be chosen at random using a random number generator.
5. You must supply a valid email address to win.
6. If a winner is drawn and the email address doesn’t work, another winner will be drawn at random.
7. You don’t have to write anything special in the comments but feel free to say hello or tell us why you’d love to win.
8. Read here for Hearditintheplayground.com’s general prize draw terms and conditions.
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brilliant giveaway who ever wins is one lucky person
yes please
yes please
My 5 year old has just started to read and he loves to identify the words he has learnt in books – he would love these!
I’d love to win to teach my little girl reading!
My little girls would love these, both love reading in bed but we need new books.
Fifteen fab first reading books – super start for my son!
Theses books would be great for my little boys- here’s hoping
What a wonderful way to spend special time with your children and enjoy all the stories, fun, new people and places from the books. I do hope I win.
My 5 yr old twin girls are really enjoying reading. They’d really appreciate these books.
Lovely, lovely books. You can never have enough books when you have little ones. Would love them.
fabulous prize my girls would love it
Great prize, my granddaughter will love them if I’m lucky enough to win.
Great website too x thanks x
My little girl would love this, she’s the youngest in her year so this would be great to boost her confidence.
My daughter is in reception class and just starting to read on her own, these would be perfect !
would love a set of these for my grandson, a great start for reading books
these couldn’t fail to instill an interest in reading
Great prize. I’m already reading to my baby son and have done since he was 1 month old so these would be perfect for him x
They look fantastic and I don’t think my child will realize that he’s “learning to read” – he’ll just learn naturally by enjoying the beautiful pictures and fun stories!
Wow! Thankyou for the chance to win such a lovely prize
There are going to be some very happy children out there, I hope they are mine…..
It would be a wonderful start for my little Grand-daughter.
My niece and nephews would really like to win these
great for my little girls
Wow what an amazing prize, they look super! My little boy is starting ‘big school’ in September so these books would be a lovely for him to look at over the summer with me. Thank-you.
Would love to enter please. Will be something to keep in the family for future generations.
What a great prize ~ a lovely addition to any child’s book collection.
This giveaway has now closed. Thank you for all your entries – we will announce the winner shortly.