Programs
Children's Summer Reading
Read for fun all summer long during the annual Summer Reading Program open to kids three to fourteen.
Dates: June 9 - August 2, 2008
Current Partners:
City of Chicago’s Department of Environment
Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance
Please join us this summer in any of our 79 locations, including the Thomas Hughes Children's Library and the Bookmobiles, to read across the city. Children ages three to fourteen are invited to explore the environment
Kids up to the age of nine who read or have read to them, twenty-five pictures books will earn a Reader's T-shirt. Children over age nine who read ten chapter books will earn a T-shirt as well. Weekly raffles, book giveaways, author visits, performers and presenters are some of the activities that are featured throughout the summer.
For more information contact your neighborhood library or call Children and Young Adult Services at 312-747-4780.