Secret Seed Society Children's Book Contest


The Secret Seed Society are creating a series of small books, each book comes as part of an activity pack - with organic seeds, growing instructions and a recipe to take children on an adventure from plant to plate. The audience consists of 3-9 year olds and those that read with them. Lead character is an Onion. Alliterate the name. The character should face 'real life' dilemmas, situations or decisions. The onion and others live in Seed City: an urban environment with The City Farm, Leafy Lane Park, The Bandstand, The Lido, Salad Square and more. Please feel free to develop your own and include those that already exist. Format: 500 - 700 words, divided in to 12 chunks ('spreads' if you’ve done this before) that will be integrated in to double paged illustrations. If we select your story to work with, we give you £700 ($1,124.00 US) and five percent royalties on every activity pack sold over 5,000. We invite you to be credited as the writer, although you will have the option to remain anonymous. The author must assign the copyright of the story to Secret Seed Society. Deadline October 5, 2009. Submit by email to story@secretseedsociety.com. The story must be in text in the main body of the email, so those of our judges who are out and about in the wilder parts of the UK have a chance to read your story via their phones.