Submissions are invited for Your Pages 2024 Competition for School Children by Children’s Book Trust. The last date of submission is July 31, 2024.
About Children’s Book Trust
Children’s Book Trust was founded by Shankar in 1957. It came to be housed in Nehru House, inaugurated by the President of India Dr. S. Radhakrishnan on November 30, 1965. Pioneer publishers of children’s books in India, Children’s Book Trust has set for itself an ambitious target to promote the production of well written, well illustrated and well designed books for children. In furtherance of this objective, the Trust brings out books that are easy to read and easy on the eyes, including books that enable children to have a better appreciation of India’s cultural heritage.
CBT is now in the 60th year of its establishment. These golden years have seen a marked progression not only in terms of creative ideas, themes and factual accounts, but in their presentation, production and visual interpretations as well. From playful animal fantasies that were published as Panchatantra tales or the retold folktales that even today make perennial favorites, CBT gradually steered its energies towards reality issues like teenage problems, scientific and technological advances, school and sports dilemmas, contributions of eminent men and women in India’s progress, the changing mindset of ordinary people and the evolution of their thought.
The Trust brings out a monthly four-colour magazine for children called Children’s World. It is one of the oldest magazines for children in English, now in the 57th year of publication.
Competition Details
Children’s World is inviting ORIGINAL Stories, Poems & Features (in English) & Paintings (in any medium) for the 35th YOUR PAGES Special November issue!
Rules
- The Competition is open to all school children.
- Each participant is allowed to send ONE written entry and/or ONE painting only.
- Schools can send a maximum of TEN written entries & TEN paintings.
- The written entries must be typed; handwritten entries shall not be accepted.
- The word count of prose shouldn’t exceed 750 words; poems shouldn’t exceed 25 lines. Each entry must clearly indicate the word count for prose/line count for poems. Any departure from the given length would disqualify the entry.
- The entries should be sent via email (MS Word doc file for written entry & Scanned jpegs for Painting; no pdf files shall be accepted).
- Each entry must be accompanied by a latest passport size photo of the participant & the Declaration form (given alongside) duly filled.
How to Submit?
Each entry, Declaration & photograph should be sent in a single email as attachments to cwcontest[dot]nd[at]gmail[dot]com ONLY.
Submission Deadline
The last date of submission is July 31, 2024.
Click here to view the official notification of Your Pages 2024 Competition for School Children by Children’s Book Trust.
