The Santa Monica Public Library has announced about 300 drawings by local children are currently on display in the main library children’s department at 1343 6th Street, (at Santa Monica Boulevard). The drawings were submitted as part of a city-wide bookmark contest done in conjunction with the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District, in which children were asked to design a bookmark with the “Get Carried Away... Read!” the winners are as follows: Grades K-1 First Place: Shari Kiana Ratcliff Second Place: Cami Berry Grades 2-3 First Place: Jovan Johnson Second Place: Steven Gordon Grades 4-5 First Place: Maisy McVicar Second Place: Caer Fergusen All first-and second-place entries will be made into bookmarks, soon to be available at all open branches of the Santa Monica Public Library. For more information call the children’s department at (310) 458-8621.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 7, 2001. Read the original PDF.