Link to the sign-up thread

I'm already starting to collect books. *happy dances* This is my very favorite release challenge! :yahoo:

OK, I signed up... this is only my second release challenge ever, but I want to get into wild releasing a little more, so this is probably as good start! :)

I've joined. I saw some on my available shelf I could use.

Are there any labels and cover stickers we can download from somewhere? I asked this at BC too, but thought I might get a reply here faster.

I don't know if I should. I just got a bunch of books with animals in the title..

I don't think I could come up with enough books, myself, but good luck to the rest of you! It does sound fun.

I'm working on special labels now. Give me a few days and they should be ready. :)

Of course I'm in... I've got two boxes of animal books that I've been collecting! :whistle:

I've scrounged up about a dozen books I can use with some type of animal in the title...though the books aren't about animals. :blush: Think I'll hit up my local BCers at the next meeting for animal titled books.

Just some ideas for animals you might not know:

Queen - a female cat
Jenny - a female wren or donkey
Jill -a female ferret, opossum or kangaroo
Sprite - a spayed female ferret
Nymph - a baby cockroach or grasshopper
Jack - a male donkey, mule, opossum or kangaroo
Fry - a baby fish
Tod - a male fox
Kid - a baby goat
Billy - a male goat or a baby goat
Nanny - a female goat
Stud - a male horse
Joey - a baby kangaroo, opossum or koala
Pinkie - a baby mouse or rat
Cob - a male swan
Pen - a female swan
Tom - a male turkey
Drone - a male wasp

See the whole list here

Funny, I never knew an opossum went by jack or joey...and I had one as a pet. Learn something new every day. :P

Thanks for the list appa!

Labels are ready!

You can download them here! Note: these are in Microsoft Word (.doc) format and fit the 2x4" labels.

:giggle:

piteousness of doves
shrewdness of apes
bike of bees
obstinacy of bison
siege of cranes
mob of emu (though isn't one a mob in itself? :rofl:)
smack of jellyfish (isn't that what you're tempted to do to them?)
cartload of monkeys (who'd want that?)
parliament of owls and congress of ravens (is that some sort of comment on governments?)
crash of rhinoceros (I hope not!!!! :yikes:)
harem of seals (erm... :blink:)
surfeit of skunks (well, yeah... I'd say one is a surfeit unless it's descented...)
ambush of tigers (:runaway:)


Baby pigeons are squeakers!!!

:D I googled for images to play around with, and this is what I came up with for journal entries/release notes:

Hey Appa if you or Dae want to look through my AVLs for animal titles I'll be more than happy to donate. :grin:

Here are the ones I spotted:

The Disapparation of James
Noah's Ark (Black Swan S.)
Firebird
Still Life With Woodpecker
Illuminating Angels & Demons
The Hobbit
I Was Amelia Earhart
Red Dragon
Silence of the Lambs
Thrush Green
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Old Dogs and Children
Taxes and Termites
The Snapper
Early Stories of Willa Cather
Sick Puppy
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
The Rebellion of Yale Marratt
Winnie-The-Pooh on Problem Solving: In Which Pooh, Piglet, and Friends Explore How to Solve Problems, So You Can Too
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish
Dragonflight
Truelove & Homegrown Tomatoes : A Novel
Sisterchicks on the Loose
Malice Domestic 2
Malice Domestic #5
The Covenant (Abram's Daughters)
In the Time of the Butterflies
School Days (Spenser)
The Twelfth Angel
Jacob Have I Loved
Finn Mac Cool (Celtic World of Morgan Llywelyn)

I'd be happy to have any one of these (and of course share and share alike with all the other BOb'ers who are participating in this challenge)! Check out my 'books for postage' and let me know if there's anything you'd like in trade or if you'd prefer me to send you money for postage instead.

Ack!! School Days is a Spenser book I don't have. I love Robert B. Parker stuff. *Covers eyes before she sees any more* :P

I did say donate. So no need for paying postage or books in return. :wink: Although I'm going to send Dae School Days (Spenser)

It's yours. :hug: :kiss:

Thank you!! :hug:

I found all the books but 3.
Firebird
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Rebellion of Yale Marratt

I threw in The Reptile Room by Lemony Snickett though. :wink:

I finally signed up. I found dozens I can use, and lots in my unregistered TBR pile.

Now I'll have to find places to release them. :wink:

I am seriously considering participating. I don't think I have wild released anything in a few years. I have a few animal titles in on my shelf (helps that devil counts as an animal word.) If I can get to the UBS or thrift store and pick up some more titles I will join.

I am so totally in! :D

I was going to do last year, but I never got totally in gear. I have books I saved from than and now going through newer ones!!

I finally mailed out the books today. I do hope we get some good catches Appa. :D

I know I said I couldn't do this... but I've been stressed out and depressed for the past few days, and wild releasing tends to help with those things.... soooooo.... I've bought a few animal books anyway :lol: I figure that if I don't get enough for it, I can always save them for next year or otherwise bookcross them.... right?

I bought 4 books at Value Village, so I got another one free.... all have animals in the titles! But, sadly (for me and my release collecting) the free one must be used for something else...

Oooh, I'll keep an eye out for them! Thanks again! :wub: :flower: :kiss:

Does anyone have an full version of Adobe? I thought it would be nice to have some outside labels for our books to with the graphic nwpassage posted to use in our journal entries. Found one label someone made here -- http://www.rinaldiweb.it/eurobc/stuffs/BC-...s-lightwavz.pdf
and thought it would be good to just change out the picture. I only have Adobe Reader though.

I do have some made through word, but I'm not thrilled with them. :unsure:

I am confused about this challenge.... cause on the sign-up thread it says to release 20 books.... but I posted to ask if there's a date by which you need to sign up, cause I'm trying to determine whether or not I'll have enough.... but then someone said you can do it even if you just have 1... does anyone know?

I think you can sign up anytime, even during the challenge. :shrug: I would ask Secretariat or someone who has done the challenge before (this is my first year too so I don't know either)

The goal is to release 20 books, but even if you can only release one that's still okay. The fun of the challenge is just the togetherness of all releasing books together and watching other people (and hopefully yourself!) getting catches. :)

Thanks guys, I will go sign up then. I am up to....8 now. Mostly kids books. It's not that many.... but it's a start!

We can start releasing books now! :yahoo:

Now I just need to decide if I need to go anywhere today so that I can. :unsure:

That's exactly what I'm doing right now!