Events: 2024-2025 Bookmark Contest

Congratulations Winners of the 2024-2025 Bookmark Contest!

The Springfield Public Library has selected eighteen young artists as the winners of the 2024-2025 Children’s Bookmark Contest.  The winners were congratulated by Mayor VanGordon at the regular City Council Meeting on Monday, February 3rd. 

The Springfield Public Library has held its Bookmark Contest for 44 years! Over 1400 students entered the contest this year, from Kindergarten through 12th grade, creating art around the themes of books, libraries, or the 2025 Summer Reading theme, “Level Up at Your Library”. Oversize versions of the winning designs are on display at the library until next year’s contest, and schools with winning students also received large bookmarks to display. The winning bookmarks are professionally printed and available in the library. All of the 1400+ submissions will be on display in the Youth Gallery in City Hall during the month of March, courtesy of the Springfield Arts Commission who also support the contest.

The library thanks all of the artist who entered the contest for their amazing work, and we are grateful for all of the parents, caregivers, teachers, and school librarians who helped support the artists.

The contest for the 2025-2026 school year will open after Thanksgiving this November.

This year’s winners are:
 

• Olivia Thomas, Kindergarten, Elizabeth Page Elementary                
• Joscelynn Thomas, First Grade, Guy Lee Elementary         
• Kaycie Carr, First Grade, Walterville Elementary                      
• Oliver Kling, Second Grade, Two Rivers-Dos Rios                 
• Jesus Flores-Ortiz, Second Grade, Two Rivers-Dos Rios                 
• Sage Bar, Third Grade, Walterville Elementary                 
• Julian Maxwell Garcia, Third Grade, Yolanda Elementary     
• Rowan Robinson, Third Grade, Maple Elementary         
• Eliza Calkin, Fourth Grade, Douglas Gardens Elementary         
• Cailin Cole, Fourth Grade, Centennial Elementary             
• Georgia Brewer, Fourth Grade, Douglas Gardens Elementary     
• Thomas Haberstroh, Fifth Grade, Teach NW         
• Jessica Ward, Fifth Grade, Thurston Elementary                 
• Camille Black-Williams, Fifth Grade, Ridgeview Elementary             
• Noah Savelich, Sixth Grade, Eugene Christian School         
• Jade Asumendi, Sixth Grade, Briggs Middle School                  
• River Davidson, Seventh Grade, Briggs Middle School          
• Maxwell Britton, Twelfth Grade, Springfield High School