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| Written by Brian McCauley | |||
| Wednesday, 16 December 2009 09:00 | |||
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With budget cuts looming, Sunflower Elementary librarian/teacher Rena Smith was worried there would be little to no funds this year for new books. Third-grader Kelsey Lester took care of that problem last week, when it was announced that a book cover she designed as part of a competition sponsored by Price Chopper was selected as the third-grade winner for the entire Kansas City metro area. Kelsey earned a classroom party for her and her fellow students, but she also earned a $500 donation to the school’s library. Price Chopper received more than 4,000 entries in the Bag Your Favorite Book competition, and only one winner was selected from each grade, according to a news release. Kansas City-area students from kindergarten through eighth grade designed an original cover for a book for entry into the contest from Sept. 1 through Oct. 16. Kelsey designed a cover for the book “Caterpillars, Bugs & Butterflies,” by Mel Boring. Kelsey’s parents, Brad and Christina, found out about the award about a week before it was announced during an all-school assembly on Dec. 8, and Christina said it wasn’t easy to keep it from Kelsey. “We told her we were going on a tour of the school that day,” said Christina, referring to the excuse they came up with as to why they would be attending the assembly. But when Kelsey saw her parents along with her grandparents and other family members come out onto the gym floor during the assembly, she knew something was up. Despite the slim odds, it didn’t surprise Christina that her daughter won the contest. “She’s very artistic,” Christina said. “She’s had a lot of things entered into the (Miami County Fair).” Paola Price Chopper store manager Dusty Laderer and Smith presented the award to Kelsey during the assembly last week. Bag Your Favorite Book is one of two programs under Price Chopper’s Feeding the Reading Appetite literacy initiative, which was launched in 2007 to provide teachers a new way to incent their students to read more. The other program, Party for Pages, allows classrooms to earn parties based on the number of pages they read collectively over a 35-week period, with different levels based on the grade level, according to the release.
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