Creepy-House

Suffolk Libraries will be helping thousands of children to take part in the 2013 Summer Reading Challenge this year.

The Summer Reading Challenge is a successful campaign by the Reading Agency which works with libraries to engage and encourage children to keep reading through the long summer holiday with a series of fun and exciting activities and challenges.

The Reading Challenge has the exciting theme of Creepy House this year. Children earn stickers and other rewards, with a certificate for everyone who completes the challenge of reading six library books.

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All children with a library card can take part for free and it is easy to join at any library in Suffolk. There are long lists of spooky books to appeal to older and younger children but you can read any library book as part of the challenge. There are books about coins, cars , or cookery; stories about dogs, dinosaurs or disasters; picture books about teddies, trains or trains.

If anyone is interested in taking part in the challenge they can contact their local library. Children will be able to sign up to the Creepy House reading challenge from 21 July and after they have read their first book, will get a poster which divides the Creepy House into three sections which they move through as they read each book. The Reading Challenge runs until 8 September.

Last year nearly 3,800 children in Suffolk completed the challenge and nearly 2,300 joined the library to take part so it’s also a great way of introducing children to what their local library has to offer. The Summer Reading Challenge now accounts for 20% of all books issued annually byUK libraries.

 

Comments from last year’s Reading Challenge:

“Parents said it helped their reading development during the holidays. Some enjoyed reading as a family and the challenge was the incentive and at the heart of it.”

“My daughter only reads in the holidays because of the challenge, it’s the perfect incentive.”

“I really loved reading all the books.”

Anyone looking for more information about the Summer Reading Challenge and how children can sign up will be able to find out more at their local library in July.

There is more information at:

http://readingagency.org.uk/children/news/summer-reading-challenge-2013-theme-is-announced.html and www.creepy-house.org.uk plus there will be more information available from www.suffolklibraries.co.uk

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