FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:    Heather O’Connell, Public Information Coordinator
                    LEE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM
                    (941) 479-4629 Office
                    (941) 479-4631 Fax

Library Bookmark Contest for Kids

The Lee County Library System invites kids in grades 3, 4, and 5 to participate in the

Design a Bookmark Contest.

 

Here’s how to enter:

1. Pick up a contest entry blank and complete rules at any Lee County Library System Library or the bookmobile.

2. Design a book mark on the entry blank, using this year’s theme "Get Carried Away. . . Read"

The deadline for entries is October 17.

 

The first place winner at each library will receive:

a first place certificate

an invitation to a reception at Barnes & Noble, and a Barnes & Noble gift certificate

a free family ticket to the local Tellabration 2001

(this is a storytelling event presented by the Tamiami Tale Tellers on November 17. )

Other outstanding entries will receive honorable mention certificates.

Entries will be displayed in the public libraries during Children’s Book Week, Nov. 12 - 17.

For more information about the contest, call any location of the Lee County Library System or 479-4636.