Children's Stories
Description
Participants create an illustrated children’s story that will incorporate educational and social values. The story may be written in a genre of their choice and must address the annual theme. Examples are fables, adventures, non-fiction, fiction, and fairy tales.
2025-26 Theme
Rhyming or Repetitive Text used to develop language development and memory in early readers.
North MS, Team 3,
2025 1st Place
Event Resources
EVENT EXAMPLES
Click on the links to the right to view past entries for this event.
Event Deadlines
January 22, 2026
Students will need their Participant ID number, and password, from their advisor. Only the team captain will be able to upload the file.
Students submit story outline, design sketches, storyboard, materials list and a minimum of 3 completed pages as a multi-page pdf file. Students who do not submit ALL of these elements will not be scored.
April 2026
Students will submit their book and portfolio on Wednesday evening of the conference.
Semifinalist list will be posted on Friday afternoon. Semifinalists will read book to judges, and answer interview questions.
Washington TSA Rules
To compete, students must:
Belong to a currently affiliated TSA chapter
Be registered (by their TSA advisor) for competition by December 19, 2025 ($35)
Compete in the January 22, 2026 virtual competition (see individual event pages for details)
Be selected as a top competitor in their event(s) and invited to participate at State
Number of competitors is dependent on specific event
Qualifying competitor lists will be published by February 8, 2026
State Conference registration week February 23-27, 2026 (see state conference page for details)
At the state level, 3 teams (may be a team of 1) per chapter may compete.
