CREATE
A STORY…..
SHARE A STORY!
Calling all young artists and writers! READING
RAINBOW is inviting youngsters to participate in its Ninth
Annual Reading Rainbow Young Writers & Illustrators
Contest! Submit your work to APT
by March 24, 2003!
Children from kindergarten to third grade
are encouraged to write and illustrate their own stories
and enter them in READING RAINBOW's Young Writers &
Illustrators Contest, which is conducted in cooperation
with local PBS stations across the country. Applications
are available here and can also be located on the
PBS Kids website.
This year the Contest partners with the new
PBS Kids campaign, Share A Story - Give Them Words To Grow
By, a national initiative inspiring adults to help children
develop language and literacy skills through daily activities.
Entries are judged in local contests, with
the local winners advancing to the national competition.
Each child who participates in the Contest receives a special
Certificate of Achievement signed by READING RAINBOW's host
LeVar Burton.
Plus, Alabama First place
winners in the Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade,
and Third Grade will each receive a $100 gift certificate
to Books-A-Million!
Second place Alabama winners will receive a $50 gift certificate.
There will be more national winners this year.
For the first time a third place winner will be added to
the national first & second place winners in each age
category (K-3rd grade). All national winners will receive
a READING RAINBOW library set, comprised of ten DVDs and
matching feature books. First place winners will receive
a computer and printer, and second place winners take home
a DVD player. In addition, all 12 winners receive READING
RAINBOW library sets for their schools and for their local
libraries.
Noted children's book authors, illustrators,
publishers, educators, and representatives from such organizations
as the American Library Association and the National Council
of Teachers of English make up the panel of national judges,
who evaluate the entries and select the winners.
Alabama's Winning Tradition
In 2002, Haley
Suzanne Stewart of Trinity, Alabama won the National
First Place Grand Prize for Second Grade in the Eighth Annual
Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Competition!
Haley's book, I Wished I Had a Sister was
awarded First Place in the state back in April 2002, and
national contest winners were announced in mid-June.
That was the third consecutive year that an
Alabama student has won a national prize in the public television
writing competition that
attracts more than 40,000 entries each year. Two Alabama
girls received national second place prizes in 2000
for their respective grade levels, and another received
a national second place prize in 2001. First and Second
Place Prizes are awarded for competitors in four grade levels,
Kindergarten - Third Grade, that are judged separately.
See a list of 2002's State Winners
here.
Read Haley's winning book online at http://gpn.unl.edu/rainbow
