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Win DVD Copies of The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child

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The Gruffalo

The Gruffalo is an adorable story. I enjoyed reading it to my kids and then watching it together. We would read both The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child books and then watch the stories. Now the Oscar-nominated The Gruffalo is being re-released on DVD January 10, 2017. I will be giving away a pair of the DVDs. You can enter to win by leaving a comment on this post. Tell me your favorite childhood story. The contest ends January 6, 2017.

The WINNER is DEBIJOT

Both of these films are based on beloved children’s books written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, and feature an all-star cast of voices. Some of the featured voice talent in both films includes Helena Bonham Carter (Harry Potter), Robbie Coltrane (Harry Potter), James Corden (The Late Late Show with James Corden), John Hurt (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), and Tom Wilkinson (Batman Begins).

About The Gruffalo

This enchanting tale tells the story of a mouse who walks through the woods in search of a nut. Along the way, he encounters a hungry fox, owl, and snake who all think the mouse looks good to eat! Forced to rely on his wits for survival, Mouse invents an imaginary monster with frightening features to scare them away, but what happens when he comes face-to-face with his own creation?

The Gruffalo DVD has an SRP of $9.99 and will be re-released on January 10, 2017.

About The Gruffalo’s Child

One snowy night, the Gruffalo’s Child ignores her father’s warning and bravely tiptoes out of their cave into the deep dark wood in search of the Big Bad Mouse. On her journey, she meets Snake, Owl, and Fox but no sign of the fabled Mouse. He doesn’t really exist…or does he?

The Gruffalo’s Child DVD has an SRP of $9.99 and will be re-released on January 10, 2017.

Disney, Photo-A-Day

The Not So Scary Magical Ohana Day

Sweetums at Walt Disney World
Photo-A-Day #1994

This morning Allison, Eva and I got up and went to a character breakfast at Ohana at the Polynesian. We had a delicious breakfast with Lilo, Stitch, Pluto and Mickey. Eva was most excited about seeing Mickey Mouse. She was a bit nervous at meeting Stitch but she got over that quickly when he came to our table.

After breakfast we spent the morning and early afternoon in the Magic Kingdom gathering autographs for Eva’s autograph book. We continued using the one that we got last year and I once again brought my Polaroid Pogo with me so that each night I could print off photos onto the ZINK sticker paper and put them into Eva’s book sot hat she could see the photos of her and the Disney Characters that she’d met the day before.

We took a break and headed back to the hotel to get ready to go back to the Magic Kingdom for Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party. For some reason we thought that maybe we could get Eva to take a nap or something. Not a chance. Allison got some sleep but Eva just ended up watching a movie on my iPad.

The Not So Scary Halloween party was a lot of fun. We all got dressed up, I was Peter Pan, Eva was Tinkerbell and Allison was Vidia, a fast flying fairy from the new Tinkerbell series of movies. We did Trick or Treating in the Park, went on Goofy’s BarnStormer Roller-Coaster and went in to meet the fairies. As luck would have it both Tinkerbell and Vidia were there to sign autographs.

Eva ended up falling asleep before the fireworks so we got to watch them without her getting too scared.