And the winner is...

Last year's Reading Rainbow Young Writers & Illustrators Contest Winners Visit the Reading Rainbow website!

CET is pleased to announce the local winners of the Fourteenth Annual Reading Rainbow Young Writers’ & Illustrators Contest. Nearly 185 entries were submitted by children in the Greater Cincinnati area. After carefully considering the many creative and entertaining original stories and illustrations, the following stories were selected as our winners.

Kindergarten
1st Place
The Happy Ending by Chandra Justice
Honorable Mention
My India Trip by Jihad Ali Khan
Corinna Saves the Day by Jeana Simpson

First Grade
1st Place
The Princess and the Golden Retriever Meet the Macaroni Man by Sydney Sauer
Honorable Mention
Boppa and the Whale by Catherine Feldkamp
A Big, Big Flower by Nuha Syed

Second Grade
1st place
Seasons by Sara Martina Roell
Honorable Mention
The Magical Piano by Anna Catherine Wolfe
Super Monkey and the Monster by Ashwin Chidambaram

Third Grade
1st place
All About Me by Lexie Potts
Honorable Mention
The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk by Caroline Feldkamp
Alace and the Biggest Grape by Lauren K. Goslee

The four local 1st Place winning stories will be featured in a video on CETconnect.org in June and will also go on to compete at the national level.

CET congratulates these budding young local authors!