NOW CLOSED: Calling all parents of children aged 1 to 7. Do you want to join Pearson's Book Review Panel?

[AnnMumsnet]

You may know Mumsnet have been working with Pearson to provide some special learning-related content for you.

Linked to the site is a Pearson shop where you can buy educational books for children ? Pearson say, "There are touch & feel books for your littlest learners, brilliant fiction and non?fiction for your early readers, science and history books for 9?11 year olds and much more besides ? all at great prices and with free UK P&P on all orders over £24.99".

They have now asked us to find 80 Mumsnetters to join a special book review panel. To take part you must:

~ live in the UK
~ have a child aged from 1?7 - in KS1/p2 (If you have more than one child aged 7 and under please choose one child to take part in this review with)
~ be willing to review (and keep!) up to 5 packs of books before the end of the year

[Please note at some stage we will be recruiting parents of children aged 8?11.]

Each reviewer will be sent up to 5 packs of books before the end of the year for review. You'll be asked to take a proper look at the pack, read the books with your child, maybe get together with a group of mums to see what they think, and then submit your review on a special review thread on Talk. Panellists will be asked to submit their reviews within 2 weeks of receiving their review packs. You must review each book pack you receive. If you want to opt out of the project you can at any stage by emailing MNHQ.

If you are selected to take part, MN will email you to let you know. We will then pass on your name, age and gender of your child, and address details to Pearson for them to dispatch your books.

Each panellist will be able to keep the packs they review. Pack values vary from around £7.00 to around £30.00 and contain up to 24 titles. As a thank you for taking part there will be a monthly prize draw (on the last day of each month) for all those who have submitted a review in that month. The prize each month will be £50 of John Lewis vouchers.

The reviews will be used by Pearson to help promote the books to other Mumsnetters ? they will link to the feedback thread from the book shop pages and will feature the reviews you send in on the site. Pearson also say "we want the reviews to help us refine and improve our selection of packs for the shop, so if a particular programme is receiving rave reviews, we'll add more titles into the shop and if something isn't being received well, we'll use this feedback to refine our offering."

So if you and your child would like to take part please add your details here.

The first packs will be sent out in the next couple of weeks.

Thanks, MNHQ

I'm in. Got a nearly 2 year old here. Likes books.

Sorry for being dense, thanks!

Why is it 1-7 but only KS1? DS is 6 but will be going into year 3 in sept. Sorry but seems a little daft to me. In the next round could it be KS2 ages 7 and up please.

Do we have to post a message on this thread as well as completing the survey? And does posting make you more likely to be picked or is it just random from completing the survey? Ta

Aw mine moving up to KS2 also

But she's not 8 til January.

im i in page went off :)

Awww I'd LOVE to do this! Hope I get picked

Oh ps, how soon will we know if we get picked?

Hope I get picked!

What a fantastic opportunity, we love books and you can never have too many!

MelodyMagicalMaladies - it's just the age the books they want reviewed are aimed at. It's a tricky time of year with it being end of term.
cairnterrier - no need to post on here.

thanks to all who have applied so far...glad you like this one!

Just filled in the form. Would love to do this, ds1 loves looking at books.
He will be 4 in a couple of weeks and we are trying to continue his interest in reading.

Free books? Yes please! Both DS and DD devour them, so the more then better :)

Signed up

Should completing the survey have taken me back to the home page? I clicked to complete but after that the page went blank (completed on iPhone). Would you mind checking for me please MN?

Ooh done. Hope we get to do it, sounds so much fun!

annmumsnet i filled it in and pressed complete survery but the page just went blank, it didnt take me back to the homepage, can ou tell me if it worked please????

Thanks!

HAve filled it in and 'clicked to complete survey', but got no sign on th epage that it had registered - can you check?

done!

Done it. Hope we get picked as dd is going through books like you wouldn't believe at the moment! Fingers and toes crossed

Oooh :) I am so excited about this because I am passionate about books :) This is even better than the prospect of the fridge! lol...can you tell I love books :)

:) :) :)

Are they all in English or do they do a Welsh range?

DS1 is just finishing Derbyn (reception) in a Welsh school and won't formally be learning to read and write in English until year 3.

We do enjoy lots of English books at home, though he's not trying to read them himself yet.

Would he be eligible, or should I just enter ds2 who hasn't yet started school?

Done too. Ds loves to be read to but is proving a reluctant reader through reception. He is just starting to gain confidence so could be an interesting time for us to have more books.

Done (for my younger one). DS is another of the 7 year olds who will be in KS2 in September. Can the older ones be for 7-11 please otherwise most of those in Year 3 in September are in danger of missing out.

Me too, DD is a bookworm who can't yet read herself, so mummy has to do all the voices, sometimes several times over - just DON'T tell Nickel I have entered

I've filled it in - fingers crossed!