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| KQED Education Network Showcases Reading Rainbow Young Writers & Illustrators Contest Winners |
KQED Ready To Learn Celebrates Young Literary Talent with a Ceremony at the San Francisco Main Library
San Francisco, CA, May 24, 2001 -- KQED Education Network and Reading Rainbow, the Emmy Award-winning PBS children's series, are pleased to announce the winners of the local Seventh Annual Young Writers & Illustrators Contest. KQED Ready To Learn hosted the local contest and will present awards for first-, second-, and third-place as well as honorable mention at a ceremony on Saturday, June 2 from 3-5 p.m. at the San Francisco Main Library, San Francisco (100 Larkin Street at Grove.).
The winners will receive prizes provided by KQED Ready To Learn, Barnes & Noble, GAP, Reading Rainbow and other contest sponsors. Beverly Hock, a Bay Area children's literature specialist, will read from the award-winning stories. All children who participated in the contest received a certificate of accomplishment signed by LeVar Burton, the host of Reading Rainbow.
The local contest is part of a national competition created to encourage children to write and illustrate their own stories. KQED Ready To Learn received over 550 entries from students in kindergarten through third grade. A community panel of judges, including librarians, teachers, storytellers and award-winning authors and illustrators of children's books, evaluated the stories and selected the winners. First Place stories are now competing in the national contest and will be aired on KQED Public Television 9 in fall 2001.
The winners of this year's local Young Writers & Illustrators Contest are:
Kindergarten
1st Place:
The Great Rat Escape by Antonia Calabrese, Oakland
2nd Place:
Rose's Barrette Molly Rosenthal, Berkeley
3rd Place:
The Youngest Astronaut by Aniruddha Dayal, Fremont
Honorable Mention:
The Pretty Lady Bug by Claire Elizabeth Linney, Woodland
First Grade
1st Place:
My Trip To Hawaii by Kevin Ishikawa, San Jose
2nd Place:
Croc Meets a Friend by Gyan Rusconi, Castro Valley
3rd Place:
Little Tails by Cornelia Janze, Alamo
Honorable Mention:
The Fly Who Bugged Me by Danielle Kim, Cupertino
Second Grade
1st Place:
The Boy Who Turned Into A Pig by Nicky Robinson, Los Gatos
2nd Place:
My Brother, the Peanut Butter Ball by Joshua Fitzgerald, Hayward
3rd Place:
The Ladybug Who Lost Its Wing, by Jessica Skowronski, San Jose
Honorable Mention:
Danie and Princess by Brenna Nelsen, Saratoga
Third Grade
1st Place:
Doctor Beverly Whitter: A Tall Tale, by Alia McKean, Albany
2nd Place:
The Crazy Wedding by Bernadette McVerry, Albany
3rd Place:
Reed's Wish by Nicholas Dumas, Palo Alto
Honorable Mention:
One Strange Morning by Christopher O'Meara, Berkeley
Past winners can be seen on the KQED Education Network Web site at KQED.org/ednet. This year's winners will be posted after the award ceremony.
This contest was made possible by financial support provided by the Georges DeBatz Trust for the Arts and Helen Rubin, a recipient of the 2000 McNeil Volunteer Awards.
KQED Ready To Learn, a service of the KQED Education Network, helps parents and child care professionals use public television to encourage children's natural curiosity and love of learning. Ready To Learn combines high-quality educational television with community outreach and innovative learning materials. Together, these resources help parents, teachers and caregivers throughout Northern California use public television to help meet the national education goal that all children begin school ready to learn.
KQED operates KQED Public Television 9, the nation's most-watched public television station, and Digital Television 30, Northern California's only public television digital signal; KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM, the most-listened-to public radio station in the nation; the KQED Education Network, which uses KQED media to inspire thousands of teachers, students, parents and media professionals through workshops, seminars and resources; and KQED.org, which harnesses the power of the Internet to bring KQED to communities across the Web.
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