Letters from Lockdown Competition 2020

The results are in!

Congratulations to our winner!

Kumari age 9, Merrydale Junior School, Leicester

And congratulations to our two runners-up:

Maisie age 10, Rectory Farm Primary School, Northampton
Bella age 9, Dorchester Primary School, Worcester Park

Our judge, Sunday Times journalist Sian Griffiths said of the winning letter:
‘The thing that stood out for me was that the writer’s Mum worked for the NHS so on top of the shared childhood frustrations of lockdown such as boredom and not seeing friends, the writer had to cope with her Mum being on the frontline of the fight against Covid.’

Our Bookshow team praised the three selected prize winners, who will all receive a set of 10 books by Children's Bookshow authors and illustrators.

We loved the way Kumari expressed the experience of lockdown so beautifully; not seeing friends, hoping Covid would go away and also sharing another letter with us so we could understand more about her lockdown world. The happy news of the kittens arriving was illustrated perfectly with a cartoon style drawing of one of the black kittens with its big blue eyes, wide open.

The letter from runner up Maisie was beautifully presented, with her the use of the NHS rainbow colours and the 2 metre spacing rule and she also gave us a wonderful insight into life with her family in lockdown and message of hope.

Runner up Bella, packed so much into her short letter with joyful photos to illustrate not only her lockdown activities but also of the friend she missed.

Thank you to everyone that entered our Letters From Lockdown Competition. We’ve had lots of wonderful entries and we’ve loved reading each one. We hope you’ve all enjoyed being back at school with your friends and teachers and we hope to see you at one of our Children's Bookshows next year.