Ericson Public Library 2024 Summer Reading Program
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Our 2024 Online Summer Reading Program
Sign up through Beanstack! OR Register online and pick up a paper log!
All ages can decide which option works best for you. Parents if you have a family you want to participate and track, you will want to decide which method you will want to use for your entire family. You won't be able to do the app with one child and log for other.
Our program runs from Monday, June 3 through Saturday, July 27. Our community goal this summer is 500,000 minutes of reading and attendance at programs and completing fun activities! We can do it!
CHILDREN (INFANT to Grades 5)
Welcome to the 2024 Children's Summer Reading program. This program is open to infants through children going into fifth grade in the fall. You will have to choose between the paper option or the Beanstack (app) option. Once registered, each child will receive a free book from the book cart as a special thanks from Friends of Ericson Public Library. The following will provide instructions for each option.
Option #1: Beanstack: If you have not installed the app, you will need to download the app BEANSTACK from your app store. You will use this app to track both minutes read and activity badges. Your child will earn logging badges for every 20 minutes read to or they read on their own.
Option # 2: Paper Option: Register Online and pick up your bookmark at the Children's Department desk. You or your child will color in a circle for each 20 minutes the child is read to or reads. The bookmark back lists activities to complete to be entered into prize drawings. You must turn in your bookmark by Saturday, July 27th to be entered into the prize drawings.
Children will earn the following incentives:
You are welcome to stop in & pick-up all prizes beginning the week of June 10 or throughout the program.
- 1 Free book from Children’s Department book cart
- Hy-Vee donut certificate
- Blank Park Zoo pass
- Dutch Oven Bakery donut certificate
- Tickets for Scenic Valley Railroad ride(for immediate family members only)
- Tickets for a I-Cubs game (for immediate family members only). Pick up starting Monday, July 1.
- Taco Johns free taco certificate
- The Book Shoppe certificate for free book
- 1 End-of-SRP Luau Pool Party pass. Pick up starting Monday, July 1. (Pool Party is Friday, July 19 at 6:15pm)
Children will also earn activity badges for each activity completed. Each activity badge completed will go towards special prize drawings at the end of the program. These prizes include: mini helicopter metal kit, tiny art studio kit, rock painting kit, fairy garden figurines, & butterfly cross stich. Children must have all activity badges completed by Saturday, July 27th to be entered in the special prize drawings.
TWEENS & TEENS (Grades 6-12)
Grades 6th - 12th, based on the grade you will be entering in Fall 2024.
Read, renew & repeat this summer at Ericson Pubic Library! You can earn badges by logging reading minutes and for each 2 hours of reading you log, you will earn tickets which you will enter in the end of program prize drawings. The more tickets you earn, the greater your chances of winning gift cards from Amazon, Walmart, Target & more! You get to choose which drawings to place your tickets into!
The program also includes multiple activity badges like attending programs. All of these badges earn you additional prize tickets.
Use Beanstack or Register Online and pick up a log at the Main floor desk or Children's desk.
Just for signing up you get to pick a FREE book from a designated book selection, and at the beginning of July come on in for a coupon for a FREE Taco from Taco John's!
You can read anything: i.e. books, Ebooks, magazines, newspapers, comics, manga, the internet (or listen to audiobooks) and log those minutes!
ADULTS:
Welcome to the Ericson Public Library 2024 Adult Summer Reading Program, “Read, Renew, Repeat,” featuring conservation! “Read, Renew, Repeat” makes for a wonderfully diversified summer reading program that encourages reading as a restorative method of self-improvement and self-preservation, all while learning some valuable information and having a good time!
Explore Ericson Public Library this summer and all the fun reading has to offer – all while earning badges! Read out of your comfort zone and try new genres of books and sample some of our programs and activities this summer to collect badges to earn prize chances!
Just for registering, you will be eligible to choose one FREE book from a selection at Ericson Public Library AND be added to these prize drawings:
1. Tandem Rail Explorer ticket (for 2 people worth $99) 2. Boone Theater “Night Out” voucher (for 2 people worth $38 which includes 2 adult tickets and 1 combo = 2 large drinks and 1 large popcorn)
Earn three badges and get a raffle ticket to win a $25 gift card to the business of your choice! The following 4 prizes are available:
1. $25 Fareway Gift Card
2. $25 HyVee Gift Card
3. $25 Walmart Gift Card
4. $25 Boone Chamber Gift Certificate to any Boone Chamber member business
Keep reading and earning badges for a chance to win a $50 gift card to a local or an online business! The more you read, the higher your chances of winning a $50 gift card!
You will automatically be placed into a drawing for all these prizes (no need to choose as the drawing includes all):
1. $50 Fareway Gift Card
2. $50 HyVee Gift Card
3. $50 Walmart Gift Card
4. $50 Amazon Gift Card
5. $50 Boone Chamber Gift Certificate to any Boone Chamber member business
Download the BeanStack Tracker App to your mobile device or computer to access this Adult Summer Reading Program! OR Register Online and pick up a log at the main floor desk!
Be sure to follow and check Ericson Public Library’s Facebook page and website calendar for upcoming in-person, virtual, and hybrid programs and events!
We hope our conservation theme and programs will encourage adults to participate in many outdoor activities in area parks, Boone Y Camp, Herman Park Pavilion, Boone Municipal Band and visit Ericson Public Library for the carnival and wide variety of summer programs!
ADULTS, we hope you accept and attempt these challenges and have a wonderful summer of reading and participating at Ericson Public Library!
Be sure to follow and check Ericson Public Library's Facebook page and website calendar for upcoming in-person, virtual, and hybrid programs and events!
