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Read all summer long with the St. Charles Public Library! 

 

Monday, June 2–Thursday, July 31

 

ALL AGES are invited to sign up at the library, online or print a log  to track your reading and listening—it all counts! If you complete your log, print the bonus log here!

 

Summer Reading Log
Baby-Toddler Log
Toddler-Pre-K Log
Bonus Log

 

Registration opens on Monday, June 2. The last day to log reading and redeem prizes is Thursday, July 31.

 

You will earn a prize at the halfway point of 500 minutes and another prize once you’ve read 1,000 minutes! Additionally, for every 500 minutes of reading logged, you automatically earn another entry into the grand prize drawing.

 

Get the whole family involved for a chance to win the Family Prize Game Night Prize Bundle! If you have both a child or teen and an adult participating from the same family, you are automatically eligible to win. The prize bundle includes an assortment of over a dozen board and card games, a Domino’s Pizza gift card, and a microwave popcorn variety pack!

 

Grand Prize and Family Prize winners will be drawn within the week after the program ends. 

 

 

Youth

 

500 Minute Prize:
Spin the prize wheel at the YS desk!

 

 

1000 Minute Prize:
Choose a book from the Summer Reading cart at the YS desk

 

 

Grand Prizes: 

  • Brookfield Zoo membership
  • DuPage Children’s Museum membership
  • Library Night (movie, breakout, makers activity, you pick!)
  • Motorized Marble Run
  • 3D Pen
  • Robotics Kit
  • Pretend Ice Cream Counter
  • Bluetooth Karaoke Machine
  • Little Tikes Story Dream Machine
  • $50 Target Gift Card

 

 

 

Young Adult


500 Minute Prize:
Choose from an assortment of prizes at the upper-level desk

 

 

1000 Minute Prize:
Choose a YA book from the Summer Reading cart at the upper-level desk

 

Grand Prizes 

 

D&D Package:

  • D&D Starter Set
  • D&D Monsters & Dragon Model Set
  • D&D Map Kit

 

Let the Games Begin Package: 

  • Before Or After Trivia Game
  • Wrong Answers Only Card Game
  • Splendor Board Game
  • That Escalated Quickly Card Game
  • Dumb Ways to Die Card Game
  • Coup the Card Game

 

 

Level Up! Gift Card Package: 

  • $25 to Amazon 
  • $25 to STEAM  
  • $25 to Target  
  • $30 to Spotify  

 

 

Game On. Read On. Package:

  • Don’t Read the Comments Book  
  • Check & Mate Book  
  • Dating and Dragons Book  
  • Book highlighters and sticky notes  
  • Owala Water Bottle  
  • $25 to Barnes & Noble 

 

 

 

Adult 

 

500 Minute Prize:
Pack of mini-sized dominoes

 

1000 Minute Prize:
A regular or large print deck of playing cards

 

Grand Prizes

 

Lawn Games Package

  • Bocce Ball Set
  • Viking Chess Yard Toss Game
  • Yardzee – Giant Wooden Dice Game

 

 

Board Games Package

  • Flip 7
  • Sky Team
  • Harmonies
  • 7 Wonders

 

 

Out on the Town Package: 

  • $25 to Charlestown 18 Movie Theater
  • $25 to Target
  • $25 to Town House Books and Cafe
  • $25 to Whole Foods

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,000 Books Before Kindergarten

 

Learning to read begins long before kindergarten.  Reading to your child is one of the best ways to boost their brainpower.  Any child from birth to entering kindergarten can participate in this self-paced early literacy program.

 

Come into the Library to sign up and get a paper log.  Check in at the Library when you finish a log and move your canoe up our pretend river.  When you finish 1,000 books, you’ll receive a fun, musical prize!

 

If you read just one book per day, you will reach 1,000 before the child is three years old.  Join us on this journey to help create a brighter future for your child.