Some fun for the little Thomas & Friends devotee in your life… Borders is having a colouring contest where your little one can win some cool Thomas stuff (over $1000 in prizes)! (You have to be under 6 years old to enter :)

I’m horribly addicted to kids books, and had to pass along this online game from Borders to win the Ultimate Kids Bookcase. I managed to snaggle a couple coupons (but reckon every book has a coupon behind it anyway!), but the grand prize is 100 kids books so think it’s worth having a few clicks!

My favourite children’s book review podcast, Just One More Book, is coming up to it’s 400th episode this July… and to celebrate the love of reading they’ve invited children’s book illustrators to come up with a logo for their website. Mark & Andrea are a lovely couple whose love of reading with their children is truly apparant through their podcasts… they’ve received some great submissions already, including this awesome one by one of my favourite illustrators/writers, Oliver Jeffers… as well as artwork by some very tallented kiddies! Deadline for entries is June 15th, 2008… Happy drawing!

My favourite comic strip artist, David Malki of Wondermark, is having a zany “make-something” contest, check it out! We’ll see if I have time to whip something up between burping Hera and illustrating Charline & Lauren’s storybook.

This is a bit of fun : The HowDesign.com forum has an album up where you can upload a pic of your desktop, and the designer who receives the most votes wins a free subscription to How Magazine… very cool!