Shania Vincent’s The City, published in Crayola’s 2007 book, Children’s Visions of the Future. Vincent is a second-grade student at Greenwood Elementary School, Warwick.

Kids can color. And the artwork of some of the best ones can be seen in a new book, Children’s Visions of the Future ($24.99, 87 pages), published by Crayola. That’s the maker of crayons. So naturally, that medium figures in much of the art.

Last year Crayola, which is based in Easton, Pa., conducted a national contest open to children in kindergarten through sixth grade. More than 1,400 students took that challenge, which was to interpret the theme “art and design are all around us.”

From all those entries, 114 winners were chosen, with their artwork appearing in a slick coffee table book. Two of those winners are from Rhode Island: Kaylee Contreras, a second grader at Fallon Memorial Elementary School in Pawtucket; and Shania Vincent, a second grader at Greenwood Elementary School in Warwick.

The entries were judged by a panel of art teachers and early childhood professionals. The judging was based on such things as quality, originality and the artist’s accompanying statement about his or her work.

Shania called her artwork The City.

“I wanted to design these buildings because they reminded me of the ones I saw when I went to New York. I saw really big buildings there, and liked them, but also decided to add some small buildings too. I made some triangles, squares and rectangles with cardboard to print the lines. I added color with the oil pastels and used blue paint for the sky.”

Kaylee called her artwork My Puppy, which she simply noted was “Pump with puppy face.”

Copies of the book can be purchased at www.crayola.com. There you can also find details on submitting entries for next year’s book, which will have the theme of “green, earth’s favorite color.”