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Courier
THE WIGAN COURIER - WIGAN’S ONLY FREE NEWSPAPER THAT COVERS LOCAL SPORT
Christmas competition time!!! Are you ready for adventure?
WIN MYRO, the Smallest Plane in the World Audio Story Books narrated by Christopher Biggins, and other Myro goodies for your child and their class. To celebrate the launch of the new 'Myro, the Smallest Plane in the World' Children’s iPad Story Apps and Audio Story Books + CDs, narrated by the ‘King of Pantos’ and ‘I’m A Celebrity’ Winner Christopher Biggins, we are offering prizes for four lucky winners and their classes! The 1st prize winner will receive for themselves a set of six Myro Audio Story Books + CDs and a Myro Activity Pack! They will also win a Myro Picture Story Book for every child in their class (maximum 35 books) and a Myro Story Sack for their teacher, total prize worth up to £325! The three runners up prize winners will each receive for themselves a Myro Audio Story Book + CD and a Myro Activity Pack. They will also win a Myro Story Sack for their teacher, each total prize worth £33. This new series of Myro iPad Story Apps and Audio Story Books + CDs are based on the original Myro picture storybooks and follow the adventures of a little British Microlight called Myro – mischievous, curious and prone to disaster – as he settles into his new home in Australia. The iPad Story Apps are fully interactive with animations, music, sound effects, actors and songs. Like the Audio Story Books + CDs, they are narrated by the wonderful Christopher Biggins! With their gripping stories, beautiful images and irresistible characters, 'Myro, the Smallest Plane in the World’ is sure to find a place in everyone’s heart. The iPad Story Apps can be downloaded from the App Store and the Audio Story Books + CDs are available from Waterstones, Amazon.com and Independent Booksellers. To win one of these fantastic prizes, all your child has to do is draw a picture of Myro or one of his friends and send it to us at Myro Competition, The Wigan Courier, Suite 107, The Standish Centre, Cross Street, Standish, Wigan, WN6 0HQ. The closing date for the competition is Friday 30th November, 2012. Your child must be aged between 4yrs and 7yrs and attending a Reception, Year 1 or Year 2 class in a UK primary school. All prizes will be sent directly to your child’s school, to be presented to them and
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GET READY FOR CHRISTMAS their class by their head teacher. To find pictures of Myro and his friends to draw for the competition, visit www.myro.com or visit Facebook or Twitter @MyroAdventures. Introducing Steady Eddie World! TRAVELLING with Children just got a Little Easier with Steady Eddie World! Travelling with children is about to get easier as Steady Eddie takes to the road with a new Kids Club from the Stobart Group. Keeping a child or children occupied during a long road trip has always presented parents with challenges. Constant cries of ‘Are we there yet?’coupled with the need for frequent bathroom and eating stops usually increases the tension in the vehicle. Fortunately, help is at hand. The familiar ‘Spot the Stobart Lorry’ game, well known to most children (and adults) for years is about to be updated for the 21st century as an interactive app (released December 2012) along with a Kids Club and website called Steady Eddie World featuring travel-related games and books for children aged 4-9 years. Steady Eddie World contains premium content for members including: online games, downloadable puzzles, recipes and videos introducing Steady Eddie and his friends! Stobart take education seriously which is why lesson plans in literacy and numeracy, using the Steady Eddie characters, have been devised and are available for download on Steady Eddie World. Together, Stobart’s aim is to make a family’s journey as exciting as arriving at their destination, by invigorating traditional travel games into a form that today’s young person can appreciate and enjoy. Whilst some may remember an early incarnation of Steady Eddie as an anthropomorphised lorry, Stobart have rebooted Eddie for the 21st century ‘little traveller’ as something more recognisable – a boy. Ably assisted by his
sidekick Tina Towers, Eddie runs Steady Eddie Enterprises (SEE) World Inc. from Greenville…UK. He maintains a close relationship with his fleet of lorries, as they do their best to outfox the nefarious Tycoon Terry – Managing Director of Horrid Haulage. The app (to be released Dec 2012) – called The Eddie Stobart Tracker – will activate an alarm when a Stobart lorry is coming within range and will be displayed on a real-time map. Once the truck has been spotted the child can enter their sighting onto their account and compare their tally with other ‘tiny travellers’ via the leader board. This new interactive element will create a community of tiny travellers that will entertain themselves – thus relieving the burden from long suffering parents! Steady Eddie embodies great values of practicality, fun and fair-mindedness with his one fear being he hates to let people down – a great role model for children. The Steady Eddie club membership costs £15.99 and members receive copies of the fanzine 3 times a year, along with a goodie bag. The items are mail order and the numbers are already climbing as Steady Eddie takes to the road again! To win one of the Kids Club Pack (worth £15.99/year) which include Pump bag, Cap, Membership card, Oyster wallet, A5 notebook, Colouring pencils x 6, Fanzine x 3 per year just answer the following question: What is the name of Steady Eddie's female sidekick? Send your entries to Steady Eddie Competition, The Wigan Courier, Suite 107, The Standish Centre, Cross Street, Standish, Wigan, WN6 0HQ by the closing date of Friday 30th November, 2012. Entries can be by post or email to info@courier-online.net
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