Summer Reading & Learning

Smokey Bear’s Reading Challenge Kits will be mailed to me at the NH State Library in January. Please sign up to receive one of these kits with Smokey stickers and stamp. https://forms.gle/nkzXWGfGkhJYnUpE7

The online tool kit can be found here: https://smokeybear.com/library-toolkit-reading-challenge 

If you haven’t received your manual code—please reach out to me.

Hope you are ready for some Adventure in 2024!

The 2024 CSLP Social Media Toolkit is live and ready to help make this summer the best ever! Find pre-written posts, ready-to-go graphics, Adventure Begins at Your Library brand guidelines and customizable Canva templates! Find the toolkit here: CSLP 2024 Social Media Toolkit

Take a look at these outdoor programming resources from our Summer Symposium presentation:

• 1,000 Hours Outdoor Sample Calendar Handout
• 1,000 Hours Outside Ready-Made Resources 

See the Summer Symposium webpage for recordings and handouts. 

Libraries and Summer Food    

Food Access-NH Map from UNH Extension

B & T would like to let you know that they have a summer prize book program. Grace is happy to work with libraries to get you a 45-50% off discount on the specific titles they have if you are using them for giveaways for summer reading or any other book giveaways you would like to do. The prize books can be found on their website, Titlesource, by clicking on Browse>Selection Lists>Children’s & Teen and looking under the Summer Reading Prize Incentives. Folks do not need to order from B&T to take advantage of this resource, as well.

If you are interested in these discounted titles, feel free to contact Grace to have the discount applied. B & T has over 1,000 titles to choose from and they do have CSLP-theme specific titles and iREAD as well. B & T has partnered with both organizations this year.

Also – B & T is offering some additions to their prize book program this year, including several live Zoom events with authors and Mychal Threets, as well as a Learn to Draw event with Jason Chin! They also are giving away temporary tattoos to libraries that order over 500 titles from our list and free downloadable posters and activity sheets for everyone who orders from them this year.