2026 Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge Book Giveaway Terms and Conditions

General

1. The Book Giveaway is open to Victorian schools and early childhood education and care services signed up for the 2026 Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge.
2. To enter the Book Giveaway, you must sign up your school or early childhood education and care service for the Challenge and complete the entry form.
3. By entering this Book Giveaway, you are accepting these Terms and Conditions.
4. The Victorian Department of Education (the ‘Department’ or ‘We’) runs this Book Giveaway. Our address is 2 Treasury Place, East Melbourne VIC 3002.
5. We reserve the right to cancel or change the Book Giveaway and these terms and conditions without notice. If we need to make changes, we will let you know by updating this webpage.
6. We will decide whether entries meet the rules of the Book Giveaway and can go into the draw to win a book pack based on the eligibility criteria set out in these terms and conditions. If we decide an entry does not meet the rules, our decision is final.

Entries and eligibility

7. Entries open at 9 am on Monday 16 March 2026 and close at 5 pm on Friday 4 September 2026.
8. To enter the draw, schools and services must sign up for the 2026 Premiers’ Reading Challenge and submit the Book Giveaway entry form on our website.
9. Entries to the Book Giveaway:
   • must be from a Victorian school or early childhood education and care service that is signed up for the 2026 Premiers’ Reading Challenge
   • must be submitted before the closing date.
10. We will check entries to make sure they meet the rules. If entries don't meet the rules, they cannot go into the draw.
11. Entering the Book Giveaway means you give us permission to publish the name of your school or early childhood education and care service on:
    • our public website
    • our social media platforms and those of Members of Parliament
    • in our newsletters.
12. We will use the name and contact details on your entry form to:
    • run the Book Giveaway draw
    • contact you if you are a winner
    • supply drawn winner details to Penguin Random House so they can send out prizes to giveaway winners.
13. We will use your personal information in accordance with the Department’s Privacy Policy. You can read it at Department of Education privacy policy.
14. Each school and early childhood education and care service can only enter the Book Giveaway once during the Challenge. Duplicate entries from a school or early childhood and education care service will be removed from the Book Giveaway draw.

Prizes and Draw

15. The Book Giveaway a game of chance. Winners are selected at random which means that every entry has a chance to win.
16. The winners will be randomly drawn by an electronic draw process from all eligible entries received during the promotion period. The first valid entry drawn will win the prize.
17. A draw will take place on the last Thursday of each month during the Challenge (April to September 2026) at 2 Treasury Place, East Melbourne VIC 3002.
18. There are 3 prizes to be won each month from April to September 2026, totalling 18 prizes.
19. The prize to be awarded to the winner of each draw is a pack of 5 books from Penguin Random House valued at approximately $90 (RRP). The books are pre-chosen and cannot be substituted for other titles.
20. Winners cannot transfer the prize to someone else or request a different prize. If a prize is unavailable, the Department reserves the right (but is under no obligation) to substitute a prize of equal or greater value (as determined by the Department, acting reasonably).
21. Winners will be notified by email within 10 business days of each draw. If a winner does not respond within 10 days of notification, the Department can choose to withdraw the prize from the winner and conduct a second randomised draw from the original pool of eligible entries to select another winner for the prize.
22. Once a winner has been contacted, Penguin Random House will deliver the prize to the school or early childhood service’s address.
23. Although every effort will be made to ensure Competition book prizes are sent to the winners’ school as stated on the entry form the Department takes no responsibility for lost or misdirected items not received by winners.