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Bookmark
Design Contest
Winners
of Local Council Contests will be on the bookmark page.
The
ORA Patricia Gallagher Picture Book Award <click here for more
information and images of the books>
Nominees for the 2008-2009 Award are:
Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson, Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter
Chameleon's Colors written and illustrated by Chisato Tashiro, Translated by Marianne Martens
How the Moon Regained Her Shape by Janet Ruth Heller, illustrated
by Ben Hodson
Not Norman: A Goldfish Story by Kelly Bennett, illustrated by Noah Z. Jones
Old Cricket by Lisa Wheeler, illustrated by Ponder Goembel
Summaries
of the books - (coming soon)
Information
about the choices and votes for last year's nominees
For information about
previous years' nominees and winners, click on "previous winners" in
sidebar to the left.
Letters
About Literature Writing Contest for Students in Grades 4-12
Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress
in partnership with Target.
Entries in each state will be assessed on three
criteria: content, or the writer’s achievement in addressing the contest theme; exposition,
or the writer’s use of language skills; and voice, the writer’s
style and originality of expression. Level I - Grades 4-6,
Level II - Grades 7-8, Level III - Grades 9-12.
For more details click here
For entry form and guidelines click here
ORA Literacy Project Grants
Fifteen $200 grants
will be awarded in December 2008.
Grants applications are due November 15, 2008.
More information
A
list of
the 2007-2008 winners
The
IRA Exemplary School Award
One
$500 award given to a school that has
an exemplary school-wide reading program.
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