2019 Winners
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Photo Album of the Awards Ceremony
2019 Finalists’ Book Covers
- Bella Wang - Kindergarten - "Hailey the Hedgehog"
- Metin Talha Demirci - Kindergarten - "The School Underwater"
- Dylan Fuselier - Kindergarten - "James Harden and the Magical Basketball"
- Rami Ghuneim - Kindergarten - "Big Bend And The Black Bear"
- Hamza Khan - Kindergarten - "Pizza Monster"
- Zoya Khan - Kindergarten - "My Journey Through Outer Space"
- Shaheer Masood - Kindergarten - "My First Bike Ride"
- Nandini Palange - Kindergarten - "My Spring Break"
- Ziyah Moore - First Grade - "The Little Firefly"
- Aziz Al-Rehman - First Grade - "My First Soccer Game"
- Durriya Khatri - First Grade - "Teeny, Tiny Marinette"
- Isha Nambi - First Grade - "Friendship Always Wins"
- Kailey Joy O'Connor - First Grade - "Dustin's Dizzy Day"
- Melissa Passamen - First Grade - "Sharkie the Awesome Super Hero Dog!"
- Arham Patni - First Grade - "Santa Is On Vacation?"
- Claire Sherman - First Grade - "My Soccer Team"
- Atharv Gupt - Second Grade - "Houston's Harvey Heroes"
- Aaila Ahmed - Second Grade - "Why Am I So Different?"
- Hidaya Omotola Akimtola - Second Grade - "Annie, the Bee Daughter"
- Aizah Ali - Second Grade - "The Great Biryani Quest"
- Seth Bauder - Second Grade - "You're Weird!"
- Zahra Dhilawala - Second Grade - "Superhero Mommybird"
- Aditya P. Jetti - Second Grade - "We are Alive !!"
- Taylor Johnson - Second Grade - "The Perfect Meal"
- Hisham Khair - Second Grade - "The Elements Take a Trip"
- Tala Khayyal - Second Grade - "50 Juggles"
- Sanjay Mallya - Second Grade - "Jupiter is Bored"
- Samhita Suresh - Second Grade - "Jordan and Her Legos"
- Emma Goto - Third Grade - "Mina My Little Sister"
- Akshita Cheraku - Third Grade - "The Bicycle That Rode Away"
- Shafer Gribb - Third Grade - "Super Trott"
- Sana Kale - Third Grade - "The Leaf Maestro"
- Feryal Khatri - Third Grade - "Good Friends"
- Evan Lan - Third Grade - "Frostbite and Blizzard's Adventure: in the Ozone Layer"
- Tahani Meraz - Third Grade - "Best Friends Forever!"
- Isabel Tate - Third Grade - "San Antonio Fun"
2018 Winners
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2018 Finalists’ Book Covers
- Kindergarten Winner Ana Sofia Munoz's story, "Lala and Max"
- Minah Saravanos, "Don't Stop Trying"
- Liam Tinder, "Don't Judge a Fish By His Teeth"
- Sirac Aktepe, "The Brave Family"
- Aasiya Yar Khan, "Snowy, the Cat"
- Ziyah Moore, "The Butterfly and the Bee"
- Aleena Hussain, "The Old Flower"
- Maryam Afridi, "My Spring Break with My Family"
- Aziz Al-Rehman, "My First Spring Garden"
- Atharv Gupt, "The Blue Mango"
- Tala Khayyal, "Stella's Mars Mission"
- Adarsh Mohanty, "The Hunter and the Doves"
- Zoe Ralhan, "A Home for Coco"
- Aditya P. Jetti, "The Summer on the Pond"
- Danya Ghuneim, "A Butterfly, a Moth, and the Magical Sky"
- Akshita Cheraku, "Spring in My Neighborhood"
- Hana Iqbal, "A Dolphin in Space!"
- Amelia Blouin, "Poems By Me"
- Mary Brush, "Ciro's Day (A True Italian Story)"
- Gia DiSantis, "Roly Poly's Permission"
- Emma Goto, "Adventure in the Botanical Garden"
- Evan Lan, "A Tooth's Idea: A Tooth That Wants to Be Free"
- Everett Turner, "The Little Boy"
- Deven Almaguer, "It's OK to Be Different"
- Munir Moore, "The Dinosaur Who Wanted to Be Brave"
- Sana Kale, "Bloom"
- Rania Mansoor Chughtai, "Coco and Bella"
- Ateeb M. Hilal, "The Lonely Little Kitten Jack!"
- Abhinav Nambi, "I Won't Write a Story"
- Yosef Sagar, "The Mystery of the Magical Bag"
- Yutia Li, "Simon, My Younger Brother"
- Emanuela Nwaonu, "Amazing Dallas"
- Meera Patel, "Unicorny"
- Avika Pauri, "The Magic of a Hug"
- Emily Yen, "The Challenge"
- Reva Dastidar, "Can You Really Make a Frog Bark?"
- Ali Marfani, "Sundae World"
- Aisha Hilal, "Cookies Go to School"
- Saad Hilal, "A Summer That Changed My Life"
- Vrishni Venkata Krishnan, "The Greedy Goblin"
2017 Winners
Photos from the 2017 PBS KIDS Writers Contest Awards Presentation
2017 Finalists
- Ayaan Ali - "Submarine Dive" - Kindergarten
- Diksha Chandrasekaran - "Divi the Talking Plant" - Kindergarten
- Abdulsallam Rabiu Gada - "My Lacey Shoes" - Kindergarten
- Danya Ghuneim - "My Wiggly Tooth" - Kindergarten
- Aleena Kahn - "The Cat ... with a Bat" - Kindergarten
- Adarsh Moharty - "The Turtle and the Two Geese" - Kindergarten
- Isa Rashid - "How Kangaroos Learned to Be Strong" - Kindergarten
- Celia Serena Gonzalez - "Do You Want a Quill?" - Kindergarten
- Hamza Albalas - "The Giraffes and the Elephants" - First Grade
- Sofia Asif - "It's Okay to Be Different" - First Grade
- Ariz Dada - "The Business Wolf" - First Grade
- Emma Goto - "Finding Things" - First Grade
- Jesse Kim - "The Mystical Weiner Dog Versus the Mayo Man" - First Grade
- Everett Turner - "The Magic Watch" - First Grade
- Reva Dastidar - "My Odd Friends" - Second Grade
- Sophia Jonke - "The Lost Gosling" - Second Grade
- Amna Khan - "Sara's Computer Adventure" - Second Grade
- Ali Marfani - "Baby Storm" - Second Grade
- Avika Puri - "Can Birds Do Math?" - Second Grade
- Musa Rashid - "How Mr. B Got His Stripes" - Second Grade
- Lara Vieira Berbert - "The Art Gallery" - Third Grade
- Eli Bonnema - "Big Foot and the Boy" - Third Grade
- Zoe Ju - "The Adventures of Sweet and Salty" - Third Grade
- Tesneem Mouchli - "You Snooze You Lose" - Third Grade
- Thalia Evangelina Oddo - "A Home for Ranger" - Third Grade
- Maya Treviño - "Luck Pen? Where Are You?" - Third Grade
- Carson Wang - "The Adventures of a Mouse" - Third Grade
2016 Winners
Kindergarten
Eliza Smith
First Grade
Vivian Buchanan
Second Grade
Andrea Willman
Third Grade
Isabel Chung
2015 Winners
Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade