We've Got Books: Book Prize Winners Announced!

Community,

I am pleased to announce March book prize winners:

Big Book of Soul Giveaway- Falon
Diversity Roll Call- Katy @ A Few More Pages
Women Unbound- Bonnie @ Bonnie's Books
POC- April @ Good Books & Wine
Color Me Brown- Laura @ Reading and Rooibos
Quiz- Anishinaabekwe @ Anishinaabekwe
Sunday Salon- Steph Su @ Steph Su
New Crayons- Ari @ Reading in Color

Recap on how to win books at Color Online
Participate in CORA Diversity Roll Call. Each month, we will draw a name randomly to win a book from our Prize Bucket. We run a new assignment roughly every two weeks, here or at Worducopia. Join us. It's fun and the exercise introduces participants to new reads and different perspectives on our reading habits.

Participate in Women Unbound. I'd love to see more women of color reviews. Join us. Once a month I draw a name.

The POC Challenge. Color Online is a sponsor. Post a link to your review of a POC title and you're entered.

Color Online Quiz. Every month we try to post four quizzes. Random monthly drawing.

Color Me Brown- Read and blog brown. I'm always looking and then sharing links to your reviews. Completely random. Do what you do and you might win a book.

Every week I post a query for Sunday Salon and we share what new books we have in our New Crayons post. Comment to Sunday Salon or write a New Crayons post on your blog and you'll be entered in a monthly drawing.

We are committed to connecting readers with great literature. If you want to donate books to schools or Color Online, check our contact page. When we get requests or I hear about a school/program looking for books, I send them.

If you don't have books, send me $1 stamps. We don't have a fund. We have you and me, a sister with more passion than cents.

Unclaimed prizes
Holiday winners- Cassy, Mardel, Gavin, Laura and Catherine
Quiz- Elizabeth at LJ (Feb)
Roll Call- Puss Boots (Feb)
Color Me Brown review- Charlotte
Women Unbound- Melissa (Jan) Angela (Feb)

Winners, please contact me. I need your book choices and snail addresses.

August: Color Me Brown Book Challenge

CONGRATULATIONS, WINNERS: Rhapsody at Rhapsodyinbooks, Allison at Read Into This!, Erika at Made by Momma , Doret at Happy Nappy Bookseller and Liz at A Chair, Fireplace & ATea Cozy.

Originally, I said we'd have 3 winners but with 121 links, I increased it to 5. Thank you all for incredible participation. As I promised, there is more. Every Monday, begining September 7th, I will feature 5 links to CMB reviews I find across the blogosphere. Once a month, I'll select reviewer among these links to receive a free book from our Prize Bucket. You won't have to link back to us. You don't have to do anything except what you already are: reading and reviewing books that reflect the diversity of our world. To spread the loot, a reviewer can only win once a year for CMB. Of course, there are so many other ways to win free books here.

Thanks again to all of you for making this challenge a huge success.



Read and review POC books through the month of August. We'll have a random drawing for 3 reviewers at the end of the challenge. Drop us a link to your review to be eligible. +3 entries for any sidebar link/tweet or blog post about this challenge. Contest limited to US residents.

If you want books, here are some options:

1) Request your library buy it. Many will when a patron asks. I have a wonderful library system and every request has been purchased.

2) Look for dated POC on trade sites like Paperbackswap.com I understand folks can't buy every book they want to read. I know I can't.

3) Contact the author directly. Many will send you a copy. They don't have endless stashes but believe me they love being asked for books for review.

4) Send me a review of book by POC writer. Every month I do a drawing for a free book for reviews we publish.

5) Color Online runs trivia quizzes. Same deal. Enter the drawing win a book. And winners pick their prizes from our Prize Bucket.

6) Book Loan Program at Color Online. For all active members at Color Online, I will loan you a book. Just pay for return shipping. I run a library with more than 3000 books. Our collection is 90% women 80% POC. You can see a partial list of our collection here. Let me confess, cataloguing online has not been my priority. If you don't see a title, ask. I'll be happy to see if we own it. *You must be an active member. If you need clarification, write me.

I want books in readers' hands. If you commit to read and review, I'll send you the book.I think I have effectively addressed the access issue.

Read brown, people.

Please post book titles in your links.

Prize Bucket

When you win a contest at Color Online, you pick your own book prize from our Prize Bucket. We are always adding more books. Check out what we currently have:
*recent additions
*Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
*Meeting of the Waters by Kim McLarin
*Searching For Tina Turner by Jacqueline E. Luckett
*Dreaming In Cuban by Cristina Garcia
*Liar by Justine Larbalestier (YA)
*Sadika's Way by Hina Haq
*Toads and Diamonds by Heather Tomlison
*Rattlesnake Mesa: Stories from Native American Childhood by Ednah New Rider Weber (children)
*Elizabeti's Doll by Bodeen (children)
*Born Confused by Tanjua Deai Hidier (YA)
*Sweet, Hereafter by Angela Johnson (YA)
*Sacred Mountain Everest by Christine Taylor-Butler
*Aya by Magurerite Abouet (GN)
*Aya of Yop City by Magurerite Abouet (GN)
*Aya: The Secret Comes Out by Magurerite Abouet (GN)
*Camilla's Roses by Bernice L. McFadden
*Ash by Malinda Lo
The Rock and The River by Kekla Magoon (YA)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
8th Grade Super Zero by Olugbemisola Rhuday Perkovich
Foxy: My Life in Three Acts by Pam Grier with Andrea Cagan
The Big Book of Soul by Stephanie R. Bird
PeaceBuilders: Daisaku Ikeda and Josei Toda, Buddhist Leaders by M. LaVora Perry (MG)
Rich: A Dyamonde Daniel book by Nikki Grimes, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes (MG)
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson (MG)
Tofu Quilt by Ching Yeung Russell (poetry)
Amiagas and School Scandals by Diana Rodgriguez-Wallach (YA)
Amor and Summer Secrets by Diana Rodgriguez-Wallach (YA)
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (YA)
A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
Rogelia's House of Magic by Martinez Wood (YA)
The Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins (YA)
The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin
Ruined by Paula Morris (YA)
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
Fleldgling by Octavia Butler
Red Glass by Laura Resau
Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler
Awakening by L.A. Banks
Minion by L.A. Banks
Spirits of the Ordinary by Kathleen Alchala
Something to Declare by Julia Alvarez
Paula by Isabel Allende
June-Tree: New and Selected Poems by Peter Balakian
All of Me by Venise Berrry
Kickboxing Geishas by Veronica Chambers
February Flowers by Fan Wu
Bang by Sharon G. Flake (YA)
Anila's Journey by Mary Finn
Kid B by Linden Dalecki (YA)
Begging for Change by Sharon G. Flake (YA)
The Unresolved by T.K. Welsh
Who Am I Without Him by Sharon G. Flake (YA)
Taneesha: Never Disparaging by M. Lavora Perry
Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki (YA)
When The Black Girl Sings by Bil Wright (YA)
The Untelling by Tayari Jones
Gringolandia by Lyn Miller-Lachmann (YA)
Trail of Crumbs by Kim Sunee
The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas
Houston, we have a problema by Gwendolyn Zepeda
B as in Beauty by Alberto Ferraras
A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass (YA)
Shine, Coconut Moon by Neesha Meminger (YA)
72 Hours by Bebe Moore Campbell
Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley
The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake (YA)
Who Will Cry for the Little Boy? by Atwone Fisher
Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper (YA)
Red River by Lalita Tademy
Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey
Ugly Ways Tina McElroy Ansa
Don't Get It Twisted by Paula Chase (YA)
Marya by Joyce Carol Oates
Barefoot Gen by Nakazawa
Goddess for Hire by Sonia Sing
The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer (YA)
Change Baby by June Spence
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
The Watercourse by Cynthia Zarin
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Lucky by Alice Sebold
The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (YA)
Talking Drums by Anita Diggs
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
In The Meantime by Iyanla Vanzant
Sold by Patricia McCormick (YA)
After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson (YA)
Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger (YA)
Haiku: Seasons of Japanese Poetry by edited Johanna Brownell
The Embroidered Couch By Lu Tiancheng translated by Lenny Hu
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (YA)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
What Look Like Crazy on an ordinary day by Pearl Cleage
We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

*Mystery Prize- choose this option and be pleasantly surprised.