Kids across the country in Grades 1-6 are invited to talk about their favorite book on YouTube for a chance to win prizes. It's simple!

 Just make a 2-minute-or-shorter video about your favorite book and upload it to YouTube.

Then, go to the StoryTubes.com web site with a parent, upload your video and send  the link to your video to the National StoryTubes Contest.   StoryTubes videos can be entered beginning April 1.

You choose a category for your video:
Hair-Raising Tales
From or For the Heart
Of Heroes and Heroines
Facts, Fads and Phenoms

Each week, the top ten videos in each category will be featured for voting. 

Voting mania will then begin and happen each week in May!

At the end of each week, one lucky contestant will win $500 in books.  Their sponsoring organization (school, library or designated organization for home-schooled youth) will receive $1,000 in books. Book prizes are sponsored by publishers Simon & Schuster, Scholastic, Eaglemont Press, DK Publishing, Charlesbridge Publishing and Shenanigan Books.

The StoryTubes national partner libraries are: Northeast:  Middle Country Public Library of Centereach; NY; Southeast:  The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County/ImaginOn, Charlotte, NC; Midwest:  Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, IL; Northwest:  King County Library System, Issaquah, WA; and Southwest:  Pasadena Public Library, Pasadena, CA.

Get your story, camera (almost any digital camera will do) and let the streaming stories begin!

Please pass on this information to everyone you know who loves stories. 

For more information, visit www.storytubes.info.