Summer Reading 2024!

11/01/2023

Summer Reading planning takes time. Each year’s themes create an opportunity for librarians to brainstorm fun ideas for programming in the library, as well as choosing books to match the Summer Reading theme (that kids will want to take home). Penworthy has created two collections – Every Book is an Adventure and Read, Share, Repeat – on our website to support your 2024 Summer Reading Program. Look for these collections to browse titles that would relate to your Summer Reading theme.

The Collaborative Summer Library Program theme for 2024 is Adventure Begins at Your Library. This is perfect for introducing kids to adventure books, both fiction and nonfiction. Grab books that inspire kids to try new things, such as cooking, fishing, crafting, and more. Plan an activity in your library where kids plan an adventure, it can be real or imaginary. How about a train ride to the past? Or a spaceship to the future? The possibilities are endless! Check out our Every Book is an Adventure Collection, to see all our titles that relate to the 2024 Collaborative Summer Library Program theme: Adventure Begins at Your Library.

Just a few titles that relate to the Adventure Begins at Your Library theme:

The iRead Summer 2024 theme, Read, Renew, Repeat, is focused on conservation. The conservation movement focuses on protecting species from extinction, maintaining and restoring habitats, enhancing ecosystem services, and protecting biological diversity. The iRead Summer theme is a great opportunity for kids to learn about their community and its conservation plan. Talk with your local parks and services for additional information. Talk about ways kids can reduce and reuse materials, such as creating crafts with items found in nature. Have fun reading books with an ecological theme or read books on extinct animals (such as dinosaurs).Don’t forget to share your favorite books and then repeat. The possibilities are endless – check out our Read, Share, Repeat Collection, to see all our titles that relate to the 2024 iRead Summer theme: Read, Renew, Repeat.

Just a few titles that relate to the Read, Renew, Repeat theme:

Written by Nancy Stetzinger, Penworthy’s Product Manager