Kid Services

2021 Summer Reading Program

June 7th – August 31st

All ages can participate in our annual Summer Reading Program!

Track your reading progress to earn free books and entries into raffles drawings.

This year there’s two ways to choose from to participate:

1. Paper (with physical reading logs, sign up is at the library)

2. Virtual (fully online, sign up through Beanstack)

Come to the library to sign up!

1,000 Books Before Kindergarten

Our early literacy program for children has been redesigned for 2021! We have new ways to sign up, new ways to log reading and new prizes!

This program is designed to encourage families to make reading aloud a habit. Reading aloud is the single most effective thing parents and caregivers can do to help their children get ready to read when they start school.

Who can participate? Children ranging from birth until they enter kindergarten. Children in the 4K program are eligible to participate.

*If you’re already signed up for 1,000 books, you can use the logging sheets you already have, or you can switch over to the new ones. To do so please email Leanne at lgoeppner@prescottpubliclibrary.org

You can also participate virtually through Beanstack.

Storytime To Go: E is for Early Literacy

The 5 most important things parents and caregivers can do to support their child’s early literacy learning.

Talk     Talking with children helps them learn to express themselves with language.

Sing     Singing, which often includes rhymes, helps children become aware of sounds in language.  This will help them decode words when they learn to read.

Read   Do you know the best way to help your children become successful readers?  Read to and with them from birth!

Write  Through writing, children realize that sounds are represented by letters and words and that text means something.

Play     Children learn about the world through play.  The knowledge they gain from playing helps children comprehend what they read.

The above information is from Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library, 2^nd Edition; ALSC/PLA, 2011. Print.  More information can be found at www.everychildreadytoread.org.

Excellence in Early Learning Digital Media Award

The American Library Association’s 2021 award winner, The Imagine Neighborhood, and honor recipient, Sesame Street Family Play: Caring for Each Other.

To find out about more digital media for children, visit ALSC’s Notable Children’s Digital Media List.