Update: Thank you all for entering. It has been so much fun reading your comments. The two winners have been chosen by a random number generator. I wish you all could win!
Back by popular demand, the June 2010 giveaway is sponsored by the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
THE PRIZE: Two people will win a pair of tickets each to California Academy of Sciences AND a copy of the new Cal Academy picture book, by Jean Marzollo, illustrated by Laura Regan, and published by Sleeping Bear Press.
TO ENTER: Leave your Cal Academy Comment at the end of this post. (As long as you use the words California Academy of Sciences, Cal Academy, or simply CAS, you’re in. (The two winners will be notified by 5pm on Monday, June 7.)
ABOUT THE BOOK: This is the new children’s hardcover picture book about the Academy’s own wetsuit-wearing penguin Pierre. How cute is that?
“When Pierre, an African penguin living at the California Academy of Sciences, begins to lose his feathers, the zoo staff is at a loss as to what to do. The lack of feathers causes Pierre to lose warmth, making him afraid to swim in the zoo pool. And the other penguins start to shy away, giving Pierre the ‘cold’ shoulder. Unfortunately, heaters and medications fail to correct the situation.
But one rainy day, inspiration strikes a biologist named Pam. While walking her dog in the rain, Pam notes that her pet wears a raincoat. Could a “raincoat,” or wet suit, help Pierre?
A tiny neoprene wet suit is designed especially for Pierre. But will it work?
Told in rhyme by noted I SPY author Jean Marzollo, this true story of veterinary ingenuity charmingly comes to life.”
CHEAP TIP: If you don’t win, you can always download Skip-The-Line tickets to California Academy of Sciences and save a dollar.
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I loved CAS as a kid and it’s even better now. My 3 and 9 year old had a great time!
I would really like to win tickets to the California Academy of Sciences! Have stood outside with sign that says “will work for science” but have yet to be taken up on offer (not really, but would still be funny). Free tickets would be nice.
I love the California Academy of Sciences!
I love the California Academy of Sciences. It bums me out that as a graduate student I cannot afford to go on my own
My wife, daughter, and I LOVE the California Academy of Sciences! Can’t wait to go back.
So grateful to have California Academy of Sciences in the city!
I can’t wait to see the new California Academy of Sciences!!!
I am looking forward to seeing the new Academy of Sciences building.
I am looking forward to bringing my granddaughters to the California Academy of Science this summer, I think they will love the new building. We went to the temporary downtown, now they will be able to see the penguin exhibit.
I remember as a young girl feeling very excited to visit the California Academy of Sciences, and now having a daughter of my own it would be awesome for her to have a similar experience. Thank you CAS!
We can’t wait to visit the California Academy of Sciences! We haven’t been there since our last trip to San Francisco, in 2004!
We’d love to visit CAS!
We love going to the CAS – we’re headed there tomorrow!
I love the California Academy of Sciences – and penguins!
My daughter loves penguins and the academy is one of her favourite places!
love love love to go to California Academy of Sciences!!!
I would love to come to California Academy of Sciences!!!!!!!!
My love for science is an open book.
Let’s go to California Academy of Sciences!!!
Can’t wait to go the California Academy of Sciences.
I heard that the place is amazing and spectacular!
CAS hope to see you in the summer!
We would love to see the California Academy of Sciences this summer!!!
I am going to the California Academy of Sciences this summer and would love free tickets!!!
I haven’t been to CAS yet but I really want to go this summer!
I hear the Academy is spectacular, I think my son will love it. I can’t wait to go.
I would love to see the new CAS. We have not visited since the new one opened.
The California Academy of Sciences was my second home when I was growing up in The City. O please let me win tickets!
I took my kids, 8 & 13 to California Academy of Sciences, Cal Academy, and we all 3 just loved it. My oldest son, 17, went with his high school and said his favorite part was the penguins. the 8 year old burst into tears, because that was the only spot we missed!
I went to CAS for Mothers Day and had a blast, would love to head back for Fathers day!
The California Academy of Sciences is not just for kids, my boyfriend and I enjoy date night there often.
I love the new California Academy of Sciences, and i loved the old one too! Thank You!
The first time I took my kid to the California Academy of Sciences, she was so excited, she peed her pants. Whoohoo California Academy of Sciences!!
I would love to go to CAS this summer!
I can’t wait to take my boys to Cal Academy! They will love it.
Can’t wait to see the extreme mammal exhibit at CAS!!!!
California academy of sciences! gotta take the niece and nephew there!
Here we come………..California Academy of Sciences! Get ready for the Johnson Clan.
WOW … what an awesome prize. It’s been way to long since I’ve been to CAS. Winning would make for a great mother-daughter date.
The California Academy of Sciences provides a wonderful mix of innovative green architecture and interactive learning. A must for all who come to our city.
The California Academy of Sciences is on my list of “to-dos” this summer! I can’t wait to take my kids there, especially my 12 year old who has a special love of penguins.
I’ve heard a lot about Cal Academy but never been there.
California Academy of Sciences ROCK!! Love the Philippines coral reef which houses more than 2 thousand fish & of course, the penguin feeding time…both worth a trip to CAL Academy! Since then, the penguins on their blog is my fav tv show. They have an early bed time, check them out. They sleep on their bellies!!
How exciting, would love to get the tics to CAS!!
While visiting the California Academy of Sciences I played “follow me” with a lovely penguin. He followed my hand back and forth as a waved in in front of the glass. I’d love to go back and visit my friend!
I still have yet to visit the Academy of Sciences and would love to do so. Hope I win!
I would love to go to CAS!
We love Cal Academy of Science and can’t afford to go this year with high medical bills for Mom’s illness.
Hopefully we can win some!
I love the California Academy of Sciences and have the perfect kids to give the book to!
California Academy of Sciences is awesome but so expensive to get in
I would love to visit the California Acadamy of Sciences with my family. I have heard amazing things about this place.
I haven’t been to CALIFORNIA ACADEMY of SCIENCES in ages. I hope go again this year.
Can’t wait to say hi to Pierre.
I just moved to the bay area and I’ve never been to CAS, but I’m so excited to visit there! I’ve heard wonderful things about it.
I celebrated my birthday at Cal Academy of Science and it was awesome!
The California Academy of Sciences is the place to be! We love visiting with friends and family. The kiddies love the Steinhardt Aquarium especially visiting Pierre and Claude. The adults enjoyed “Night Life” – celebrating Jacques Cousteau 100th birthday. An interactive night of beautiful music, sounds and sights, The museum seems to sparkle and shine above all the attractions in San Francisco, A must for all who visits the beautiful city.
i so very much love the green roof. the california academy of sciences is a pioneer and model for all buildings in san francisco. i hope i win and get to see it again, it has been a while!
Excited to learn about Pierre at the SF California Academy of Sciences
My children love the CALIFORNIA ACADEMY of SCIENCES!!! My 7-year-old daughter, the book worm, would so love to get the book. She has been eyeing it at the Academy last time we visited. She’s been good.
My Family and I went to the California Academy of Sciences on Mother’s day and had a blast! My son actually took a picture with one of the penguins that kept posing for the camera. Too adorable! Can’t wait to go again!
I am excited to go to for the first time to the California Academy of Sciences to meet Pierre and all his friends!
A long time ago when I was a bit younger, I was even on the Board for the California Academy of Sciences although I am most interested in the living critters, we do learn from everything…
I remember years ago I visited CAS and got to meet an penguin named Percy. He was about eight months old then. So cute!! I love that the penguins are part of the new museum.
The California Academy of Sciences has so many great exhibits for children & adults — a great spot.
We love reading about Pierre and so hope to be able to cross the bridge and visit him in his lovely home at the California Academy of Sciences, a SF treasure!
My daughter and I were at CAS for our first visit last summer. Loved it and plan to visit again during our summer vacation this year!
I love that the California Academy of Sciences has a web cam of the penguins so I can see how they are doing.
Aaaaah! I went to CAS for their pre-opening event, and was very, very excited to meet Pierre.
I plan to spend my birthday at the California Academy of Sciences!!!
I cannot wait to go to the California Academy of Sciences this summer!!!
Tourist may come to San Francisco for the bridge and Alcatraz, but residents will withstand ridiculous rents and crowding for treasures like the CALIFORNIA ACADEMY of SCIENCES!!!
I’d love to take my brother out to the California Academy of Sciences! We’d especially be enthralled by the “Living Roof”–it seems like something taken out of a sci-fi story!
Of course, he’d probably go off into the planetarium and star-gaze and think about billions and billions of stars while I would go off to the extreme mammal exhibit and look at all the specimens…and then we’d probably meet up again to look at the giant octopus and water exhibits (the common point of interest, although we both like learning pretty much any new things).
I LOVE going to California Academy of Sciences Nightlife! Its the perfect date spot!
I love going to the California Academy of Science, one of my favorite places to be!
The Cal Academy is awesome, and so much fun!!
I’ve gone to Golden Gate State Park several times but never stopped at the California Academy of Sciences. What is wrong with me?!?!
I just recently visited the new Academy of Sciences. It was fantastic!
Thank you for all the wonderful virtual field trips we have taken from our desk….and for the beautiful atmosphere at the California Academy of Sciences. We plan on using this local resource as we help broaden our granddaughter’s exposure to the living world……….thank you!
I can’t wait to visit the California Academy of Sciences this summer!!!
I absolutely love the California Academy of Sciences. I went to nightlife a couple months ago and absolutely loved it. The penguins were my favorite!!!
Always wanted to check out the Cal Academy of Sciences!
awwww, Pierre looks so sporty and cool in his custom designed CAS jacket!
The California Academy of Sciences is a true Bay Area treasure. I have many wonderful memories of visiting , and hope to pass on that love to my children.
one of the greenest museums in the world is a reason enough for me to support the California Academy of Sciences.
I love the white alligator at the California Academy of Sciences but will check out the Penguin next time if i win
My husband and I loved the California Academy of Sciences so much we brought our daughter there for her 2nd birthday! Can’t wait to go back!
Just went to CAS for the first time. Pretty awesome.
California Academy of Sciences = perfect date! Penguin book = perfect gift a special little lady.
My family loved visiting the California Academy of Science. My wife was thrilled by the rainforest exhibit while my son was fascinated with the albino alligator. Its a really a wonderful place. Kids have so much fun there they don’t even realize that they are learning.
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Have heard a lot and have desire to visit asap. Can’t wait for my visit to CAS soon.
California Academy of Sciences is a great place for family to visit !!!
The new California Academy of Sciences is beautiful. The kids love it.
My family would like to visit CAS in the near future.
Can’t wait to take my new baby boy to visit the California Academy of Sciences!
My family and I love coming to the California Academy of Sciences. Our trips even inspired our middle child to become a Marine Biologist! Great contest! Thanks for the chance to win.
Haven’t been to the new CAS yet but is a must on the to do list!
I am very excited to visit for the first time the California Academy of Sciences!
We loved our last visit to the California Academy of Sciences and we can’t wait to return! There were so many wonderful exhibits that one day is just not enough time!
I really want to goto CAS. I went to old one but have made it out to the new one
We absolutely love each trip to the new CAS and always look forward to our next trip
The new Cal Academy is awesome. I loved every bit of it…..a great place for adults as well as kids! For those of you that haven’t seen it yet, don’t wait any longer. Get your tickets and GO!
aww….a lil wet suit for penguin Pierre. my son would love this story. I can already imagine the cute adventures of Pierre!
Can’t wait to visit the California Academy of Sciences and read Pierre the Penguin!!! Hope we win!!!
I have not had a chance to visit CAS yet because I am a busy graduate student and a teacher, but have heard many good things about the exhibits and I am excited to have a chance to check it out!
California Academy of Sciences- Love it, hope to win. Thank you.
I love California Academy of Sciences. I’m glad they reopened it and made it completely environmentally friendly. A great place for everyone!
Would be wonderful to take the kids to the California Academy of Sciences.
I’d love to win tix. The CAS is my favorite spot. I’ve been going ever since I was a kid.
California Academy of Sciences
I’d love to come and see CAS! This is a great way of getting comments
I remember going to the California Academy of Sciences as a kid and was so happy my children could enjoy the same experience and awe 30 years after me. Even now that they are grown, they fondly remember so many of the exhibits. My husband and I just brought our youngest daughter for her 4th birthday this year and her older brother and sisters had lots to tell her about what they remember and enjoyed the most. Thanks for being there!
CAS is cool
I would love to see Pierre being warmed wearing his custom raincoat. I have not yet been to California Academy of Sciences and look forward to visiting soon.
I’m a CAS Member and I’ve visited dozens of times since the re-opening. One of these daze I am going to work at the California Academy of Sciences–only they don’t know it yet. I see myself as being the host of the Shows presented at the Planetarium. “Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to The Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences. . .” I am retiring soon and will then have the time to pursue this dream–a dream that I’ve had since the re-opening of The Academy–one of the most fascinating places on this planet.
Sincerely–Allen Terry
Future CAS employee
I really really really want to visit the New California Academy of Sciences! Loved the old one and hope to take my class to the new one sometime but for now I’d just be happy if I got a chance to preview it on my summer break! Penguins are SOO cool.
I love to visit the California Academy of Sciences! The penguins and the rain forest are my favorite. I also love Nightlife and think its a great idea to host an adult after hours event.
Pierre may lack feathers but alas is styling in his cool Wet suit jacket at the CAS!!!
We love going to the Cal Academy! There’s nothing like going from Costa Rica to Africa to the Phillipines all in one day!
We’ve only been the the California Academy of Sciences once but the penguins were definitely a favorite for my 8 year old daughter. We can’t wait to go back!
Ooh, pick me. I love the California Academy of Sciences.
We love the California Academy of Sciences. Hoping to visit this summer!!
I love the California Academy of Sciences, penguins, and children’s picture books, so I would, of course, be a perfect winner for this giveaway. My children would get a thrill watching the feeding of the penguins, too.
I went there last year and want o go back with a friend who is visting me.
Thanks CAS for make good things to happen!
i love the California Academy of Sciences! i feel like i lose 20 years the moment i step through the doors – i love that there is such a wonderful place to spark the imagination of people young and old!
We love the California Academy of Sciences!!!
oh california academy of sciences – thanks for your presence and your many wonderful little creatures.
My family and I LOVE the California Academy of Sciences!! We just went May 15, 2010. Now my husband and I are picking up his two boys this weekend. We would love to take them to CAS because we just know that they would fall in LOVE with CAS too. There’s a total of 6 (2 adults/ 3 boys ages 7,8,10 and 2 1/2 month old baby girl) Winning these tickets would be a money saver.
I was delighted to visit CAS last year with my husband. The new eco-roof is gorgeous, the marvelous rain forest is amazing and something to experience at least once in your lifetime. Furthermore, my favorite creatures on Earth were there: pinguins and rays. So great that I am going to be back there because a friend is visiting and I want to take her as well!
Thanks, California Academy of Sciences!
Great idea California Academy of Sciences! I hope me and friend win! We are dying to visit, and I’ve never been there! Broke student status too!
I am so excited & can’t wait for my 1st visit to the California Academy of Sciences!!!
My BF and I BOTH have Birthdays this month, so how great would it be if we won free tickets to celebrate?!?
The California Academy of Science has the most incredible indoor rainforests I have ever experienced.
Would love to bring my nephew to see the penguins at the California Academy of Sciences!
Being a reef hobbiest, I was so excited to go to the opening of CAS but they ended up running out of tickets. I’m still patiently waiting on a day when we can return and finally the the exhibit.
My sons adores Penguins and the Cal Academy. We watch the live webcam so he can see the penguins swim and play.
I used to go to the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) before it was CAS! I used to love it as a child! I can’t wait to take my son for a visit and see the penguins!
My 3 year old son loves the CAS. Now, we have to take my daughter as she just turned 5 months old. I’m sure she’ll love the Cal Academy just as much
We love the Cal Academy!!
We have been wanting to visit California Academy of Sciences since it re-opened. Heard so many great things about it. Love penguins and would love to visit Pierre! Such a cute book idea!
Pierre is so cute. Can’t wait to see the new book. Still hoping to catch the nightlife at Cal Academy soon!
Love the CAS! Go every year, if not more. Brought my daughter there every year too. Now she’s a member, and so am I.
Really want to visit the new California Academy of Sciences. Have many happy memories of many visits over the years to the old CAS. Hoping to visit this summer.
I visited the “new” California Academy of Sciences with a friend in May, and we had a great day! It brought back wonderful memories of the field trips I had been on there as a kid. It was just as inspiring, interesting, and FUN as an adult!
Pierre is the COOLEST penguin in town! I love the Jackass Penguins at the California Academy of Sciences. I could sit there all day and watch them. Such an awesome place to spend the day.
The California Academy of Sciences was one of favorite places to go when I was growing up. Now I’m a mom with two kids of my own and have never gotten the chance to take them. Though I’ve been abke to make excuses as to why we haven’t quite made it there yet, I’m running out. My seven year old son is madly obsessed with Penguins and has even talked about wanting become a filmaker when he grows up and traveling the world to film movies about Penguins. I know he would love to see the Penguins at CAS, especially since he’s visited the Cal Academy website more times than I could count to see the them….
Thanks!
I took my baby to CAS for the first time earlier this year and had so much fun! Would love to visit again.
Would love to take my daughter to CAS for her 2nd Birthday in a couple weeks.
I visited the California Academy of Sciences for the first time last year and loved it! Then we went for Nightlife at the Academy last Thursday… even better. A different atmosphere with music, no kiddies or strollers, and being able to see the sunset and look at planets or the moon using telescopes… very cool! Thank you California Academy of Sciences!
I have been enjoying the California Academy of Sciences for over 35 years now. It makes for a great day in the Park!
I love the California Academy of Sciences! Especially the Amazonian fish….
I’d love to go to the Cal Academy! My girlfriend has told me all about it and we’re excited to see it some time. Hope we win tickets!
CAS is good!!!
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Our family of five would love to come to the California Academy of Sciences and see Pierre in his wetsuit.
I used to visit the California Academy of Sciences back before it was renovated. Now that it’s had a make-over I’d love to see all the new exhibits and the awesome architecture of the new building. Plus, I’d love to hear the story of Pierre the Penguin and how his wet suit was made!
One place my girls never get tired of visiting is the California Academy of Sciences…Each visit, they find/discover something new. I know they would love the new book Pierre the Penguin book to add to their library. Crossing fingers & toes!
Would love to take the kids to the California Academy of Sciences. Hope we win!
A penguin with a wetsuit at the California Academy of Sciences? Sounds like a great companion to Claude the albino alligator!
Love penguin biographies. Thanks Cal Academy!
My kids are ALWAYS bugging me to take them to the California Academy of Sciences. Interestingly, the first thing they remember from our first visit were the penguins!
We went just after the new facility opened and it was too crowded. Our kids loved it. Looking forward to returning on a non-weekend day
I have ALWAYS wanted to visit the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco but have not been able to get there yet!! These kind of exhibits intrigue me–I’m like a kid in a candy store!! A few friends of mine have visited CAS over the last few months so I have heard nothing but GREAT things and I can not wait to finally visit Cal Academy myself!! And I’m definitely interested in finding out if a wet suit or rain coat help Pierre out!! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE make a winner!!
We love going to the CAL Academy of Sciences with both of our kids. They love checking out the fish and the penguins and I love the butterflies!
I’ve got to go see the California Academy of Sciences & it’s raincoat wearing penguin.
My mother and I haven’t been to the new California Academy of Sciences yet, but would love to go. In addition to all the neat stuff inside, I want to see what they did with the Buffano statues that were in the old courtyard.
I went to the California Academy of Sciences last year with a group of friends, but I would really like to go back with my boyfriend sometime… he really loves animals!
Love the California Academy of Sciences.
so cute! I cannot wait until my baby is a tad older to take her and show her the penguins!
I have been dying to bring my son to the “new” California Academy of Sciences, we have been eager to see all the changes and especially the living rainforest.
I LOVE THIS PLACE, PERFECT FOR THE FAMILY AND OUT OF TOWN GUESTS. I WOULD LOVE VISIT IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
ENTERING THESE WORDS FOR THE CURRENT CONTEST: California Academy of Sciences, Cal Academy, of simply CAS
Love the California Academy of Sciences- went once soon after it opened….Would love to visit Pierre….
California Academy of Sciences – That’s such a cool story. Haven’t been there but now I want to visit Pierre! Hope I win.
(adding in Cal Academy and CAS just in case)
As lovers of fauna and flora, my husband and I were so excited when the California Academy of Sciences opened up to the public last year! Now that we have a three-month-old daughter, we can’t wait to bring her there and watch as she marvels at the natural world around her.