Afternoon all! After a very brief and not very deeply considered period of reflection, I have decided to take the plunge and host a readers challenge for 2014. I hope you will join me in committing to conquer this most wiley and tricksy of beasts:
The Small Fry Safari KidLit Readers Challenge!
* The Challenge will run from January 1st to December 31, 2014.
* Challengees must read at least one book from each category (listed below).
* Books selected must be aimed at a target age range of under-18, so anything from cloth books to Young Adult is acceptable. Books can be any format you like – print, audio, ebook – and any genre. Alternatively, books could be ABOUT children – for example, parenting books, or memoirs about children
* The categories listed are a loose guide and creative interpretation of the categories is not only encouraged, but applauded. Loudly.
* Challengees should link their reviews/progress under the relevant linky lists on the main challenge page. If you don’t have a blog, you could link to your Goodreads shelf/reviews, or simply comment on the challenge page as you go.
*Feel free to display the challenge button (html for which is in the sidebar) and share about the challenge wherever you like!
1. A book with something related to Safari in the title (eg: Rumble in the Jungle, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt)
2. A book with a piece of furniture in the title: (eg: 100 Cupboards, The Adventures of the Wishing Chair)
3. A book with a specific time in the title: (eg: Grim Tuesday, The Eleventh Hour)
4. A book with someone’s name in the title: (eg: Ella Kazoo Will Not Brush Her Hair, Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret?, Cinderella Ate My Daughter)
5. A book with something that comes in pairs in the title: (eg: Shoes From Grandpa, The Twins at St Clare’s)
6. A book with something precious in the title: (eg: Where’s the Gold?, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone)
7. A book with something unsightly in the title: (eg: Scarface Claw, The Ugly Duckling, Get Back, Pimple!, Trash )
8. A book with some form of wordplay in the title : (eg: Dark Lord: A Fiend in Need, The Perpetual Papers of the Pack of Pets, The French Confection)
So what are you waiting for?? Click the link to sign up below!
I hope to battle out this challenge with you all by my side, intrepid explorers!
Until next time,
Bruce
my read shelf:
The Bookshelf Gargoyle 
I shall have a go, I must assemble a list of books to have either at hand or to quest after first….I do like to be prepared!
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Jolly good! The Doctor Who Decide Your Destiny books could be a good place to start given your current theme…but I expect that will be old hat by January. Oh, and apologies for the ridiculously contrived use of a British exclamation at the beginning of this comment. I just got carried away.
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That hat is inspiring. I may take up your challenge. I didn’t do so well with my 2013 reading challenge. I am quite dependent on others’ choice of books so I will mull this over for a bit. Get my ducks in a row so to speak.
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Well I hope herding ducks is easier than herding cats! We’d love to have you aboard on our challenge but these things require careful consideration. I’ve still got three books to go in my 2013 challenge – I had nearly forgotten I was doing it! And stay tuned for more awesome hattery tomorrow 🙂
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Well, I can’t wait for that!!
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Great idea! Hope some of my books that are panting to be read will fit the themes 🙂
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Half the fun is thinking of a tenuous link between title to be read and category it might fill, I find!
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Great! You can do ‘spot the link’ too!
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We are going to sign up. Yippee!!! We’ll blog about it in a week or so, too. We are just a tad overwhelmed with posts at the moment…we want it to get the attention it deserves. Off to share on twitter…
Have a paw-riffic day! ~/(^.^)\ and =^.^=
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Wonderful! The ranks are growing – you’ll be able to put your paws up soon after a long and successful tour too 😀
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What a creative idea! I am considering signing up as well. The books I read and review are mostly based on request so I’m hoping to figure out a way to make it work. Thanks for linking this to the kid lit blog hop.
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Lovely! We’d love to Safari with you if you’ll like to join in 🙂
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Ok, I’m in. *gulp* If you like, I can blog about this and share with my followers. So, we don’t have to do them in the order above, right? I can see that it will be necessary to be quite creative in interpreting the categories!! lol
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Wonderful! No, any order you like will be fine. It would be fantabulous if you felt the need to share the challenge – the more the merrier, I say! Great to have you on the Safari bus 🙂
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I’ll definitely come and visit 🙂 Welcome aboard!
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I’ve sat on this all month, but Jemima’s first post in the challenge inspired me. I hope I did it right–was I supposed to wait to sign up until I had a post?
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Nope! We’re pretty lenient around here – our challenge enforcer brigade would rather eat donuts than chase up people marching to the beat of their own drum 😉 Welcome aboard the Safari Bus!
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Sounds like the right place for me, then! I’m definitely off beat.
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