From Red Hot Chili Peppers/Macy Gray Musician: Children's Book Holiday Giveaway!!!

Win a signed hardback copy of the new children's book BumbleBee Yourself! "Delightfully expressive and colorful illustrations bring this 'buzz'worthy tale of self love and acceptance to life! Author, Ahreek Marshall is a musician, writer and artist from Los Angeles. He has played the guitar with acts such as The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Macy Gray, Sting, Mick Jagger and many others. This is his first book for children. Illustrator, Mimi Kang is one groovy and talented young lady from Los Angeles. This is her first time illustrating a children’s book."

To enter this free random drawing, you must do all of the following:

1. Like BumbleBee Yourself on Facebook and leave a comment on our wall letting us know this giveaway brought you there.
2. Follow BumbleBee Yourself! on Twitter, tweet about this giveaway with a link to this post, and leave a comment below with a link to your tweet so we can check it out.
3. Blog about this giveaway include a link to this post in your blog.  Leave a link to your blog post in the comment section below so we can check it out.

Make sure you follow all of the steps in 1-3 to qualify for the giveaway.  Leaving two separate comments below for steps 2 & 3 gives you two chances to win, and your facebook comment on our wall enters you for a third chance.  

This giveaway begins November 29, 2011 and will end on December 11, 2011 at midnight pacific standard time. The winner will be announced on this blog and on our facebook page, so make sure you check back on the afternoon of December 12, 2011 for further details.

Although this isn't a requirement to qualify for the prize, we'd like it very much if you'd check out the trailer for the book on youtube, leave a comment and share it with your friends and family.  Thanks in advance.

Good luck!  

BumbleBee Yourself! Now Available at Lulu!

BumbleBee Yourself! by Ahreek Marshall and Mimi Kang now available for purchase at Lulu.com
In this delightfully sweet and wise tale, a wonderful yet shy and insecure bumblebee has beecome seriously smitten with a beautiful flower. Fearing that this fantastically far-out feminine flower will not bee interested in him as he is, he makes the desperate decision to change himself into a completely different creature! Yet upon doing so and approaching her, he soon comes to the stinging realization that it is the thing he's transformed himself into that she's unimpressed with...for her heart had already been stolen...by the genuine bee that he was beefore!  This perfectly poignant parable of self-love and acceptance is a timely reminder, in this day and age of distorted expectations and perceptions of what constitutes beauty and success, for children to simply bee themselves!  With a bonus interactive section where kids can write and illustrate their own story.

After nearly a three year long process from creation to 


production, this book was finally completed (purely by chance) 


on March 2nd, 2011...the birthday of the late great Dr. Seuss. 


We were bee-side ourselves with joy when we realized this!

Available Now! Click on this link

'THE MASKS WE THINK WE NEED TO WEAR ARE OFTTIMES LESS ATTRACTIVE THAN THE FACE WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO CONCEAL!'

                                          

In this delightfully sweet yet wise tale, a lovestruck little bumblebee has beecome seriously smitten with a beautiful flower. Fearing that this fantastically far-out feminine flower will not be interested in him as he is, he makes the desperate decision to change himself into a completely different creature! Yet upon doing so and approaching her, he soon comes to the stinging realization that it is the thing he's transformed himself into that she's unimpressed with...for her heart had already been stolen...by the genuine bee that he was beefore!
This perfectly poignant parable of self-love and acceptance is a timely reminder, in this day and age of distorted expectations and perceptions of what constitutes beauty and success, for children to simply bee themselves!

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