Our Summer Reading Challenge is here (June 1-August 9)
We have a reading challenge for all ages, and to make it easy to participate, you can sign up and log your reading at the library or participate online using Beanstack. Grow your reading skills and nourish your imagination!
- Sign up in person at the library and pick up a printed reading log, or
- Sign up and participate online using Beanstack. Need help? Learn how to use Beanstack
Summer Reading Kick-Off Week Fun (June 1 – 7)
To celebrate the first week of Summer Reading, we invite you to stop by our lobby from June 1 - 7 to:
🌱 Pick up a seed packet (while supplies last).
🫙 Guess the number of items in our estimation jar for a chance to win the jar, its contents, and a $100 Reds Garden Center gift card.
🎻 Enter a drawing for the chance to win a family pass to the Northbrook Symphony kids’ concert, "Beethoven Lives Upstairs."
About our Summer Reading Challenge
🌞 Adult Summer Reading Challenge (Ages 18 & Up)
Log your reading to be entered into our weekly gift card drawing. When you log four or more books, you'll earn a ceramic planter and a coupon for a free book from the Friends’ Bookshop and you'll also be entered into our Grand Prize drawing for a Chicago Botanic Garden household membership! Starting June 1, you can visit the library to sign up and pick up a reading log, or participate online using Beanstack.
🌞 Youth & Teen Summer Reading Challenge (3 years - Grade 12)
You're encouraged to try to read each day (30 min. for kids and 60 min. for teens). At 5, 10, and 15 days of reading, you will earn a prize (like a coupon to a local business) and a drawing ticket (for a chance to win other prizes, including a 24" bike from George Garner Cyclery). After you have logged 20 days of reading, you'll earn a drawing ticket and a prize book. Participants can also complete additional bonus activities to earn a planter kit and extra drawing tickets. Starting June 1, you can visit the library to sign up and pick up a reading log, or participate online using Beanstack.
🌞 Baby Summer Reading Challenge (Birth - 3 years)
Complete fun literacy activities with your little one, like reading or singing, to complete the challenge. Once finished, your little reader will receive a special prize and a free book. And you’ll also be entered into a Grand Prize Drawing for a chance to win a Radio Flyer 4-in-1 Stroll 'N Trike! Starting June 1, you can visit the library to sign up and pick up a reading log, or participate online using Beanstack.
Need to print an extra reading log?
Print an Adult Reading Log | Print a Youth/Teen Reading Log | Print a Baby Reading Log
Thank you to our Summer Reading Challenge Sponsors
Summer Reading is sponsored by the Friends of the Northbrook Public Library and the Laird Family Foundation
