3rd Annual Unusual Reading Spot Contest: REMINDER!

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The England Library is so excited to host our Third Annual Unusual Reading Spot Contest!  Students will enjoy having their picture taken while reading in an unusual place or pose and entering their picture in our school-wide contest.  Students might be found reading in a refrigerator, near an important landmark, in a basketball hoop, or any place your imagination takes you. Our students read EVERYWHERE!

In the photos, students should be visibly reading a book – and we should clearly be able to see the book cover (see examples below).  The 10 winning images will be enlarged to 12”x16” for display in our England Library during the 2015-16 school year. ALL PARTICIPATING IMAGES will be displayed in the hallway after the winners are announced so that our community can view and admire the awesome student entries!

Who:  Any student attending England!  (Only one entry per student, however students are welcome and encouraged to include siblings in a joint photo!)

When:  from NOW until Friday, April 17, 2015

Contest Rules:  Participating students must turn in a 4”x6” or 5”x7” photo print on photo paper of their contest entry.  The entries will be voted on by a panel of judges and the winning images will then need to provide a digital version of their image (please take the photo in the highest resolution your camera will allow) so that we may enlarge it for display in the library.  Please note that “camera-phone” photos will not be a high enough resolution to print in an enlarged size.  Additionally, please do not Photoshop or otherwise edit the photo in order to superimpose parts of the image – we want it to be as authentic of an image as possible.  Pick up a participation form in the library or click on an image below to download one to attach to your contest entry picture.

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Please note these additional guidelines:  Your book should “match” the unusual reading spot, and the cover of your book should be visible in the photo.
In one example below, the student is reading The Boy Who Saved Baseball while wearing baseball gear on a baseball field. In another example below, the students are readingWhere The Wild Things Are at the zoo!

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Is your family traveling somewhere special in the next couple of months?  Bring a book with you that “matches” your location, grab your digital camera, and think of a creative reading spot along the way to enter in our contest!  Happy Reading!

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