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Contest: Take a Trip Without Leaving Home with the Complete, Acclaimed "Travels with My Family" Series from Groundwood

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Remember family vacations? It's been a while since we could all easily hop in a car and have an adventure somewhere new with our loved ones. But in the pages of wife-and-husband team Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel's Travels With My Family series, you can explore without leaving home by joining a madcap family on their offbeat journeys. Based on their own family memories, the series is utterly charming, following a big and little brother as they try to rein in their dreamy, disorganized parents who insist on finding unconventional destinations. 

Both Gay and Homel are decorated in their fields: Gay's beloved children's books have been published around the world, earning her numerous awards in Canada and abroad, and Homel is an award winning writer, translator, documentarian, and screenwriter. We're excited to offer one lucky reader a chance to win the entire Travels with My Family set, courtesy of Groundwood Books. The prize pack includes the brand new instalment in the series, Travels in Cuba.

The Travels with My Family prize pack contains one copy of each of:

To enter, send us an email at contests@open-book.ca with the subject line "Travels with My Family contest" and your full mailing address. And for a bonus entry, tell us where you'd visit right now if you could go anywhere in the world!

All entries must be received by 11:59pm on Sunday, May 23, 2021 to be considered. One entry per person. This contest is open to Canadian residents only. Chance of winning depends on number of entries received. 

One winner will be informed via email after the contest's closing. Good luck to everyone who enters and our thanks to Groundwood Books for sponsoring this contest.