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Local Student Wins!

July 26th, 2009 | Category: Good To Know,Local Events

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Jayda B. of Eldridge placed First Place (First Grade Category)  in the 2009 Reading Rainbow Story Contest.

“We are thrilled that Jayda has once again placed as a national winner,” said WQPT Educational Outreach Director, Ana Kehoe. This is the second year in a row that Jayda has been a national winner. As a kindergartener, Jayda was a Third Place national winner.

For her original story, Jayda wrote, and drew pictures for “Gus and the Garbage Mountain,” the tale of a mouse named Gus and his friend, Cuddles who recycle, reduce, reuse and repair in order to save the planet. Read Jayda’s story online.

Jayda is one of only 12 authors selected from more than 35,000 Contest entrants nationwide.

Congratulations Jayda and all of our local participants. See the local winners.

14 comments

14 Comments so far

  1. georgia August 6th, 2009 7:15 pm

    My sister wrote the book. I like it. I like the pictures of the garbage.

  2. jayda August 6th, 2009 7:33 pm

    I wrote the book gus and the garbage mountain. it was fun writing the book. the funnest page i did is the one were they are sleeping. gus is famous…cuddles is to. i like win they put squweek on the commercial on tv for my book.

  3. branson August 6th, 2009 8:11 pm

    thats so kewl i read your story and i really like it. i’m glad you won all the way to america. way to go. branson

  4. Ben August 6th, 2009 8:28 pm

    ur story is so kewl. really kewl that you won. way to go. we love u r story.

  5. Hillary August 6th, 2009 9:02 pm

    that story is really cool and i really liked reading it. i am glad you won because you put a lot of hard work into the pictures and everything. way to go.

  6. jackson August 7th, 2009 7:35 am

    jayda it must super hard to come up with your story. how do you know what to write, i cant write anything. im not happy about homework when shcool starts.

  7. ema August 7th, 2009 5:15 pm

    I really like Gus and Cuddles. They could come and spend over night at my house because they have good manners and they like to recycle and reuse things and so do I. I am proud that Cuddles is a vegetarian and tries to eat healthy. I hope you were having fun doing all that hard work writing your book.Things seem to work out better if you are having some fun along the way. Love, Ema

  8. LUCAS August 7th, 2009 5:31 pm

    THIS BLOG IS KEWL

    I WRTOE A STORY TOO BUT I DIDNT WIN ANYTHING I DUNT RITE WELL YET

  9. calla August 7th, 2009 6:07 pm

    your story is about garbage and to recycle. gus is cute

  10. Nathan and Ava August 7th, 2009 6:23 pm

    Cuddles is funny. I love Cuddles. I found the bee on every page. -Nathan

    Thanks for being on the TV and the newspaper. I love your story. -Ava

  11. LUCAS August 7th, 2009 7:16 pm

    WE RECYCLCE ALL THE TIME. I HELP TO. WE HAVENT GONE ON A FIELD TIP THERE AND I DONT WANT TO GO. BUT RECYCLCING IS KEWL I LIKE THIS BLOG

  12. de mo August 8th, 2009 10:25 am

    cool but living at dump would be smelly and scary at night but if you are with a friend it is ok. but dont ask me to come i have to be inside by eight oclok.

  13. Amy August 17th, 2009 3:57 pm

    Jayda-
    You are an amazing writer. I hope you become famous someday and we can all come to your big house and swim in your pool. I think you will be on Oprah’s book club someday.
    Love,
    Amy

  14. BOB August 26th, 2009 9:48 am

    You did a great job writing and drawing for your story. I know you worked hard and had fun. Love, Bob

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