Summer reading: freedom, possibilities and fun – Wednesday Journal

Summer reading is back at the Oak Park Public Library. Our new program, Oceans of Possibilities, starts June 1 and runs all summer.

Oceans of Possibilities is for kids age 3 and up, and we have different activities for different age groups, including advanced-level challenges and prizes just for middle-schoolers (for kids under 3, check out our 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program).

You can choose to read whatever you like: chapter books, graphic novels, the newspaper, or ebooks. You can listen to audiobooks and podcasts, or have someone else read aloud to you.

Keep track of your reading time and earn a bead or vinyl sticker for every hour, plus bonus beads for every five hours.

You could read to a dog and it would count (sorry, it doesnt count if a dog reads to you).

Your book does not have to be in English. It doesnt have to come from the library.

All reading is good reading. There are so many possibilities!

And reading isnt the only way to learn and have fun. We have tons of activities to choose from, to earn special beads too. Make art, move your body, listen to music, explore the world, or do a little science.

Everyone, everywhere is welcome to participate, and no library card is needed. So challenge your cousin in Kalamazoo, or a friend in Fargo, to join in.

Starting June 1, you can sign up online and start logging your reading and activities with Beanstack. You can access it through a web browser or download the Beanstack app to any device, including an Oak Park public school device.

If your family would benefit from a paper version of the program, stop into any library branch to pick one up, or its available to print at oppl.org/summer. Once you start earning prizes, you can stop into the library to pick them up when its convenient.

Visit the librarys Day in Our Village booth in Scoville Park on June 5, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., to learn more, or catch us out and about all summer on the librarys Book Bike (oppl.org/bike).

There are Oceans of Possibilities! Find all the details at oppl.org/summer.

Eileen Saam and Genevieve Grove are childrens librarians at the Oak Park Public Library.

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Summer reading: freedom, possibilities and fun - Wednesday Journal