is for students in grades one through four.
Students are invited to submit a drawing or painting
they have created on their own. Works are judged based on
quality, originality, and effective story-telling.

Read about the details and the rules below:

This contest is a pre-cursor to the Young PictureBook Contest (Senior Division.) The contests are meant to provide yet another opportunity for children to exercise their creativity. Children will use their imagination to solve visual problems of story-telling and composition. And the main reason for the competition, of course, is it's FUN!

1st place: $25 gift certificate for art supplies, plus the winning picture will be posted on this website for one year for everyone to see. (Plus one or two other things.)

2nd Place: $10 gift certificate for art supplies, plus your picture will be posted on this website for one year for everyone to see. (Plus one or two other things.)

3rd Place: Your picture will be posted on this website for one year for everyone to see. (Plus one or two other things.)

Classroom Award: The teacher whose class has the highest number of participants (not number of entries, and not percentage of participants) will win $300 for their classroom. Only one classroom prize will be awarded (junior and senior contests included.) A teacher must have at least twelve students participate in order to qualify for this award. If no class has twelve or more entries, no award will be given. Separate classes may NOT combine under one teacher to increase the number of participants. In the event of a tie, the award will go to the tied class with the most winning entries. If this fails to resolve the tie, the tie will be broken by drawing the teacher?s name from a hat. The committee may choose whether or not to give a second place classroom award.

For the 2004-2005 school year, students in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades may participate. These students should be from six to ten years of age.

Entries MUST BE RECEIVED BEFORE Tuesday, March 1st, 2005. Prizes will be awarded at the awards ceremony on Saturday, March 19th at 10:00 a.m. in the Bullock Room of the Provo Public Library at Academy Square. Entries should be picked up at the awards ceremony.

Entries may be any size UP TO 14 inches by 9.5 inches. Entries larger than 14 inches by 9.5 inches WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED NOR RETURNED.

You may submit UP TO TWO entries for the competition.

In order to help cover the cost of this competition, a $3 entry fee will be charged FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL ENTRY. However, every eligible child who wants to participate will be allowed to participate. If the parents cannot afford the entry fee, the child will be allowed to submit an entry with no fee by checking the SCHOLARSHIP box on the entry form.

Please mail or deliver your entries to:        J. Kirk Richards
Young PictureBook Contest
1059 Briar Avenue
Provo, Utah 84604

Entries may be picked up at the Awards Ceremony or after, at the above address. Entries not picked up by December 15th WILL BE GONE FOREVER. If you will be out of town, you may include a self-addressed stamped envelope with enough postage for your entry to be returned by mail.

Children should create their own drawings or paintings. Parents may give editorial suggestions and help with presentation, but they should not actually paint or draw for their children. Also, pictures containing borrowed or copyrighted characters will be ineligible for prizes.

Please tell your friends about this contest. The more entries we get, the better the prizes will be next year. Also, you could help your class win the Classroom Award.

You can download a PDF version of the entry form HERE. Please be patient while the entry form is downloaded.

or request an entry form by mail:        J. Kirk Richards
Young PictureBook Entry Form
1059 Briar Avenue
Provo, Utah 84604