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Canadian Freebies: General Mills Cereals Free Books (Bite Into Books)

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General Mills Canada Free Magical Bookcase

Saw this on TV today:

Pur­chase Gen­eral Mills’ cere­als and use the secret code inside to get one of many free books. The books gets mailed to you free of charge (no ship­ping fees :-) ). You can also buy sev­eral cereal boxes and get more than one free book. Find more details on this pro­mo­tion in Gen­eral Mills’ BiteIn­to­Books web­site here. The web­site is very inter­est­ing and the intro reminds me of Harry Pot­ter. Here is a list of the books they’re offer­ing for free:

Children’s Books:
1. Nancy Drew: With­out a Trace
2. Meet Casey Jones
3. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
4. Zin! Zin! Zin!: a Vio­lin
5. The Hardy Boys
6. Micaw­ber
7. I’m a Man­a­tee
8. Mar­su­pial Sue
9. Go to School, Char­lie Brown
10. Clorinda

Children Cereals

Adult’s Books:
1. 7 Habits of Highly Effec­tive Peo­ple by Stephen R. Covey
2. A Lith­gow Palooza! by John Lith­gow
3. Night­time is My Time by Mary Hig­gins Clark
4. How to Win Friends and Influ­ence Peo­ple by Dale Carnegie
5. Har­vey Penick’s Lit­tle Red Book by Har­vey Penick (Golf tips)
6. Talk­ing Dirty with the Queen of Clean by Linda Cobb
7. Decep­tion Point by Dan Brown
8. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gor­don by Stephen King
9. Larousse French-English, English-French Dic­tio­nary
10. Franken­stein by Mary Shelley

Adult Cereals

More info in the Gen­eral Mills’ Bite Into Books web­site here

20 Responses to “Canadian Freebies: General Mills Cereals Free Books (Bite Into Books)”

  1. Susan Battle

    I just went and checked all my cereal boxes and not one said free book, how­ever i eat gen­eral mills prod­ucts every day, so i will be look­ing for the free book ban­ner as i am an avid reader. Sin­cerely yours Susan Battle

  2. elizabeth derksen

    To Whom It May Concern,

    I found the web­site and code inside the cereal box, how­ever, I have been unable to locate the place to enter the code that will allow me to choose my free book.

    Eliz­a­beth

    note: I enjoyed the cereal with the fruit.

  3. Boo Radley

    Susan, thanks for your feed­back :-)

    Eliz­a­beth, here is where to enter the code:
    – Go to http://www.biteintobooks.com/main.asp
    – wait until the intro ends and you get a book­shelf.
    – click on “Choose My Free Book” and you will get a page to enter the code :-)

    Eliz­a­beth, your web browser must have flash installed to see the page. If you can’t see any­thing on the page you need to go to
    http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
    and down­load and install Flash

    Hope that helps :-)

  4. Michelle Soucy

    Hi I tried to order a book in french but it doesnt work

    I ordered the minja book in englis but can I have it in french instead

    thanks.
    Michelle

  5. Boo Radley

    Hello Michelle
    I don’t work for Gen­eral Mills so I can’t really help solve this prob­lem. I think the best solu­tion is to phone them and hope­fully they’ll be able to help you out.

    The Gen­eral Mills phone num­ber is:
    1–800-767‑5350 between (9:00 a.m. — 7:00 p.m. ET, weekdays)

    Hope this helps you out and please let us know how things go :-)

  6. evelyn

    hi i have just entered my secret code. then when it came to the instruc­tion that ” I HAVE TO CHECK IF I ENTERED THE RIGHT CODE”, i checked on it and it is miss­ing the first two let­ters. so i re-encoded it again and it did the same thing. i hope there won’t be any prob­lem that would arise.

    thanks and i hope to receive my free book by next month.

  7. Boo Radley

    You’re wel­come eve­lyn :-)
    I don’t think this error will cause any prob­lems and I hope you get your book soon. Let us know when you do :-)

  8. nat

    I can­not read some of the computer-generated codes on the cereal boxes. Is there a pat­tern so that I can guess at the let­ters or num­bers. I’ve found that this is the case in about half of the cereal boxes I’ve bought.

    Thanks,

    Nat

  9. Susan Cripps

    How frus­trat­ing this is!!! I get to the book­case, click on choose a book, then just get a page with like a star­burst on it!!! Is it me or my com­puter?? I tried to click on “help” but can not!!! All this for a free book!!! Will try 1 more time!

  10. Erik

    Hey there I just fin­ished read­ing the girl who loved Tom Gor­dan. Very good book sad end­ing how­ever. But in my opin­ion there are no other good free books. This has intro­duced me to the great writer Stephen King. I highly rec­comend any­one to read this book if they haven’t already.

  11. Connie

    7 Habits of highly effec­tive peo­ple
    Zin! Zin! zin! a vio­lin
    Decep­tion Point

    Thank you for the oppor­tu­nity to get some free books. From all our eat­ing Oat­meal Crisps it is great to be rewarded!

    This does give the rite to share the email address with ANYONE!!!!!

  12. Deb

    I received my 2 books that I ordered. It was great. what a won­der­ful idea. I wish they would do some­thing like this more fre­quently. I had no prob­lem with the website.

  13. val

    I had no prob­lem with the free book web­site, how­ever, I ordered my free books on Oct 10/06 and I still have not received them. I hope I get them soon.

  15. lynn

    i found the book­case and how to get in but it stops after way threw the site.
    am i doing someething wrong

  17. Erin

    I ordered a book from the “adult” selec­tion and received it. How­ever, I am hav­ing prob­lems with a code from the children’s books. It says that the secret code that I enter has already been used (when I know that it shouldn’t be since I just opened the box)!

    Has any­one else had this happen?

  19. Melanie Bourg.

    May I please have a code please. I have no gen­eral mills cereal around here or any­where close by and i would like to have a book for my child pleasee.

  20. Melanie Bourg.

    Umm. thank-you very much angie mor­gan but it didnt work.

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2 Responses to “Canadian Freebies: General Mills Cereals Free Books (Bite Into Books)”

  1. Susan Battle

    I just went and checked all my cereal boxes and not one said free book, how­ever i eat gen­eral mills prod­ucts every day, so i will be look­ing for the free book ban­ner as i am an avid reader. Sin­cerely yours Susan Battle

  2. elizabeth derksen

    To Whom It May Concern,

    I found the web­site and code inside the cereal box, how­ever, I have been unable to locate the place to enter the code that will allow me to choose my free book.

    Eliz­a­beth

    note: I enjoyed the cereal with the fruit.

  3. Boo Radley

    Susan, thanks for your feed­back :-)

    Eliz­a­beth, here is where to enter the code:
    – Go to http://www.biteintobooks.com/main.asp
    – wait until the intro ends and you get a book­shelf.
    – click on “Choose My Free Book” and you will get a page to enter the code :-)

    Eliz­a­beth, your web browser must have flash installed to see the page. If you can’t see any­thing on the page you need to go to
    http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
    and down­load and install Flash

    Hope that helps :-)

  4. Michelle Soucy

    Hi I tried to order a book in french but it doesnt work

    I ordered the minja book in englis but can I have it in french instead

    thanks.
    Michelle

  5. Boo Radley

    Hello Michelle
    I don’t work for Gen­eral Mills so I can’t really help solve this prob­lem. I think the best solu­tion is to phone them and hope­fully they’ll be able to help you out.

    The Gen­eral Mills phone num­ber is:
    1–800-767‑5350 between (9:00 a.m. — 7:00 p.m. ET, weekdays)

    Hope this helps you out and please let us know how things go :-)

  6. evelyn

    hi i have just entered my secret code. then when it came to the instruc­tion that ” I HAVE TO CHECK IF I ENTERED THE RIGHT CODE”, i checked on it and it is miss­ing the first two let­ters. so i re-encoded it again and it did the same thing. i hope there won’t be any prob­lem that would arise.

    thanks and i hope to receive my free book by next month.

  7. Boo Radley

    You’re wel­come eve­lyn :-)
    I don’t think this error will cause any prob­lems and I hope you get your book soon. Let us know when you do :-)

  8. nat

    I can­not read some of the computer-generated codes on the cereal boxes. Is there a pat­tern so that I can guess at the let­ters or num­bers. I’ve found that this is the case in about half of the cereal boxes I’ve bought.

    Thanks,

    Nat

  9. Susan Cripps

    How frus­trat­ing this is!!! I get to the book­case, click on choose a book, then just get a page with like a star­burst on it!!! Is it me or my com­puter?? I tried to click on “help” but can not!!! All this for a free book!!! Will try 1 more time!

  10. Erik

    Hey there I just fin­ished read­ing the girl who loved Tom Gor­dan. Very good book sad end­ing how­ever. But in my opin­ion there are no other good free books. This has intro­duced me to the great writer Stephen King. I highly rec­comend any­one to read this book if they haven’t already.

  11. Connie

    7 Habits of highly effec­tive peo­ple
    Zin! Zin! zin! a vio­lin
    Decep­tion Point

    Thank you for the oppor­tu­nity to get some free books. From all our eat­ing Oat­meal Crisps it is great to be rewarded!

    This does give the rite to share the email address with ANYONE!!!!!

  12. Deb

    I received my 2 books that I ordered. It was great. what a won­der­ful idea. I wish they would do some­thing like this more fre­quently. I had no prob­lem with the website.

  13. val

    I had no prob­lem with the free book web­site, how­ever, I ordered my free books on Oct 10/06 and I still have not received them. I hope I get them soon.

  15. lynn

    i found the book­case and how to get in but it stops after way threw the site.
    am i doing someething wrong

  17. Erin

    I ordered a book from the “adult” selec­tion and received it. How­ever, I am hav­ing prob­lems with a code from the children’s books. It says that the secret code that I enter has already been used (when I know that it shouldn’t be since I just opened the box)!

    Has any­one else had this happen?

  19. Melanie Bourg.

    May I please have a code please. I have no gen­eral mills cereal around here or any­where close by and i would like to have a book for my child pleasee.

  20. Melanie Bourg.

    Umm. thank-you very much angie mor­gan but it didnt work.

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