Bookmark competition

Children's Book Week turns 80 in 2025! To celebrate, we're holding a Book Week bookmark competition with great prizes to be won!

The 2025 Children's Book Week theme, and the theme for our competition, is 'Book an Adventure'.

The competition opens on Saturday 14 June 2025 and closes Sunday 20 July 2025.

Categories and prizes

There are 3 categories for entry:

  • Ages 5-7
  • Ages 8-10
  • Ages 11-13

The winner of each category will win a Dillons book voucher and 15 bookmarks featuring their design to give to their friends and family!

Winning bookmarks will be professionally printed and distributed to participating schools in time for Book Week, 16-23 August 2025.

The winners will be notified via phone and announced on 2 August 2025 via the Campbelltown Library Facebook page and our website.

How to enter

Entry is as easy as 1, 2, 3!

  1. Download and print the bookmark template.
  2. Create your design in the space provided on the template, using the theme 'Book an Adventure!' to inspire you.
  3. Scan and submit your entry online or hand your hard copy design in at the Campbelltown Library (please note that original artwork will not be returned).

Download the bookmark template

Submit your entry

Terms and conditions

  1. One entry per person.
  2. The competition is open to children aged 5-13 years.
  3. Entries must be submitted before 5 pm on Sunday 20 July 2025. Entries must be submitted via hardcopy or via the website.
  4. Bookmark design entries must be the original work of the entrant.
  5. Designs must be hand drawn. AI and digital art cannot be used, and artwork must not feature copyrighted art (e.g. no copying of logos, designs like Pokemon, Disney or similar).
  6. Entrants retain the copyright of their work and agree to grant Campbelltown City Council the right to use the bookmark design and supporting information for the purpose of promoting literacy and the Campbelltown Library and may be used in marketing materials, displays and publications.
  7. Entrants must have parental consent to enter. The entrants' parent or guardian warrants that the work submitted is original and does not infringe the copyright or moral rights of any third party, and that the entrant owns all the rights and interests in the work submitted.
  8. The decision of the judges will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  9. Winners will be notified by Friday 1 August 2025.