Alabama Winners Announced
for
Eleventh Annual Writers & Illustrators Competition
Tayllor-Hanson |
Laren-Doyle |
Chanda-Shaw |
Luke-Reynolds |
Alabama Public TV received hundreds
of fantastic books for the Eleventh Annual Reading Rainbow
Young Writers And Illustrators Competition! Now it’s
time to announce the winners!
First Place winners in Alabama were Luke Reynolds of
Albertville, Lauren Doyle of Bessemer, Chanda Shaw of Huntsville
and Tayllor Hanson of Woodstock. They won $100 gift certificates
to Books-A-Million, and they could win the national grand
prize in June.
Second Place prizes were awarded to Dakota
Caffee of West Blockton, Ariel Odom of Mobile, Michael
Kathryn Cassity of Trinity and Jordan Sanders of Huntsville
. They won $50 gift certificates to Books-A-Million.
Everyone who sent in a book received a "Certificate
of Participation" from LeVar Burton for all their hard
work. Congratulations to all the winners, and to everybody
who sent in their books. You did great!
The First Place winners' books have now progressed
to the national level Reading Rainbow judging which will
be done in June. National prizes include computers and Reading
Rainbow book and DVD libraries for kids and their schools.
Reading Rainbow is the most-used television
program in American schools. Winner of several Emmy Awards
for Best Children's Television Program and Best Actor in
a Children's Television program, Reading Rainbow airs every
weekday at 12:00 noon on Alabama Public Television.
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.
