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All Creatures Great and Small Writing Contest for Grades 5 & 6 by Matt MacHutchon - Thursday, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:27am
All Creatures Great and Small
A Writing Contest for Grades Five & Six

The perfect pet story.
The silliest skunk story.
The most fantastic fish tale.

McNally Robinson Booksellers and Scholastic Canada invite grade five and six students from Manitoba to submit an essay or story of between 500 and 800 words. The subject is animals, tame or wild. Birds, fish and crawly things are included.

Individual entries are welcome; teachers may sponsor up to five students each.

Entries will be accepted at

McNally Robinson Booksellers,
Grant Park,
until 11:00 p.m. Friday
March 26, 2010.

Submissions must be typed and clearly identify the author's name, phone number, and school on a separate page. Please do not put your personal information on your work. All entries become the property of McNally Robinson Booksellers.

Winners will be announced on Thursday, April 15, 2010. Prizes will be awarded at a celebration to be held on Thursday, April 22, 2010, where the winning entries will be read aloud by their authors.

PRIZES

1st PLACE
$75.00 Gift Card from McNally Robinson for the author, and a collection of books by Kathryn Lasky, celebrity judge and author of The Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, for the winner's school.
2nd PLACE
$50.00 Gift Card from McNally Robinson.
3rd PLACE
$40.00 Gift Card from McNally Robinson.
1st & 2nd HONOURABLE MENTION
$25.00 Gift Card from McNally Robinson.

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