The England Library is excited to host our 14th annual Unusual Reading Spot Contest!  Students enjoy having their picture taken while reading in an unusual place or pose and entering their picture in our school-wide contest. Students might be found reading in a refrigerator, near an important landmark, in a basketball hoop, or any place your imagination takes you. Our students read EVERYWHERE!

In the photos, students should be visibly reading a book – and we should clearly be able to see the book cover (see examples below). The 10 winning images will be enlarged to 16”x20” for display in our England Library during the 2026-27 school year. 

Who:  Any student attending England! (Only one entry per student, however students are strongly encouraged to include siblings in a joint photo!)

When:  from NOW until Friday, April 10, 2026

Photo Specifications & Requirements: Participating students must email the high-resolution photo of their contest entry to England_Library@roundrockisd.org (student name in the subject line, please) in addition to submitting this signed paper permission form to the library. When photographing your student for this contest, please adjust camera settings to the highest resolution your camera will allow so that we may enlarge it for display in the library. Minimum resolution pixel dimensions are 1840x2300; optimum resolution pixel dimensions are 2400x3000 or higher. Please note that “camera-phone” photos may not be a high enough resolution to print in such an enlarged size for display in the library. Additionally, please do not Photoshop or otherwise edit the photo in order to superimpose parts of the image – we want it to be as authentic of an image as possible. 

Contest Rules:  The submissions will be voted on by a panel of judges and the students with winning images will be notified via email mid-May. Pick up a participation form in the library or download one from the Library Website to attach to your contest entry picture.

Please note these additional guidelines:  Your book must “match” the unusual reading spot location, and, the cover of your book must be visible in the photo.