Since I love writing, I thought I’m tell you about this annual writing contest for kids. It’s by Scholastic, and it’s open to grades K-8. The idea is to create a picture book, in a team of 3 kids, that’s 21-29 pages long. There has to be an adult Project Coordinator to help learn about other picture books and to help send everything in correctly, and the deadline is March 15, 2010. It may be too late to get your teacher to help you with it, but if you’re driven, maybe you ask a parent, or even a counselor at an after school program who’d be interested. Plus two of your friends.
You have to write the story and draw the pictures, then put it together into a book. If you’ve ever thought of becoming an author, this is a great place to start! Two Grand Prize winners in both fiction and non-fiction will have their books published.
Click here to read the contest guidelines and download an entry form.
