Write and Illustrate Your Own Book Winners Announced

Last night the winners of the were announced at the .

The judges sorted through more than 100 submissions and students in grades K-6 were rewarded for their writing skills, creativity and imagination in a contest that dates back more than 20 years.

It was Nancy Hensler's idea, the now-retired Huntingdon Valley Librarian who worked there for 20 years, and it's been running since 1990.

[Here is an article written about her from 1998 found in the Philly Inquirer]

The students have the opportunity for their books to be professionally bound and added to the vast collection that sits in the HV Library. People in their 20's and early 30's who won the contest can still go back and find their book sitting in the children's section.

"I am impressed with the effort was that expended. We live in an area where there are extremely bright kids and it's reflected in these books," said Alice Turman, youth services coordinator at the HV Library.

Here are the 2011 winners:

Kindergarten

1st place: Sienna Chaela Lawson
2nd place: John Kroll

1st Grade

1st place: Maria Mavroudis
2nd place: Sarah Kideckel
3rd place: Alexandra Kupper

2nd Grade

1st place: Tommy Mavroudis
2nd place: Timmy Kroll

3rd Grade

1st place: Shejin Shaju
2nd place: Cassidy Sudell
3rd place: Justin Sandler
3rd place: Phoebe Lynch
Honorable mention: Alice Jun

4th Grade

1st place: Elizabeth Rubin
2nd place: Gwendolyn Duncan
3rd place: Katherine Mavroudis
Honorable mention: Joy Hutchinson
Honorable mention: Michael Connolly

5th Grade

1st place: Teleri Broomhead, Jennifer Rossiter
2nd place: Matt Purcell
3rd place: Kiera Kilkinney, Erin Woltemate
Honorable mention: Annmarie Coates, Ellen Hueber
Honorable mention: Kyle Dunn, Julia McCann, Katherine Tracey
Special for Graphic book: AnnaKate Murphy

6th Grade

1st place: Danielle Greenberg
2nd place: Alyssa Wawrzyniak
3rd place: Mackenzie Listman, Tess Hopkins
Honorable mention: Katherine Connolly
Honorable mention: Andrew Jun