Summer Reading Week 7: Music from around the world

Summer Reading Week 7: Music from around the world

by | Aug 11, 2025 | Uncategorized

Hello Summer Readers!

This week we will stop to listen to the birds sing, the drums play, and the wind whistle- this week we are learning about “Music around the World”! This is our second-last week of summer reading club – oh how the time flies!

We are having a special guest join us from the Huron County Museum – Kathryn Scott from Museum on the go! This week we will be reading a musical story about animals and their adventures called Wild Symphony by Dan Brown.

For those who can’t come join us this week, as usual, we have musical colouring sheets that you can print at home or at your local library for some colouring fun. Take a look at our week 7 reading lists that we made for you! These books are all about music in our lives. You can check out these books and more at your library, and please do!

See you next week! 

Nadine and A.J.

Summer Reading Week 6: Sports around the world

Summer Reading Week 6: Sports around the world

by | Aug 3, 2025 | Summer Reading

Hello Summer Readers!

Pass the ball! This week will be all about the different kinds of sports that people play over the world- from luge to cricket, boat racing to archery- there are so many different ways to play with a team! What sports have you played?  

This week we will read some stories about a girl who bravely tries out two different sports – luge and short track. Luge is a speed sledding sport invented in Switzerland, and short tract is a speed skating sport invented in Canada! The books are called Lucy tries Luge and Lucy tries Short Track, both by Lisa Bowes. Together we will invent our own sports and sport teams – and play them!  

If you can’t make it this week, we have colouring sheets just for you that you can print out at home or at your local library, and we encourage you to check out some books while you’re visiting! We have a week 6 online reading list full of sporty stories that you are sure to love.  

Catch you later! 

Nadine and A.J.

Summer Reading Week 5: Food around the world

Summer Reading Week 5: Food around the world

by | Aug 3, 2025 | Summer Reading

Hello Summer Readers!

Across the world, food plays an important role in how we all live, in how we interact with other people like family and friends, and in the ways, we plan our days. Scandinavia in northern Europe is known for buffet style meals with variety. Some regions use chopsticks or clean hands to eat most of their meals. What is most common across all these regions is a love for food.

This week’s theme revolves around food, and how food is treated differently in each and every country on earth. Not only the foods they eat, but how they treat cooking and eating. This week we’ll be reading the story Ramen for Everyone by Patricia Tanumihardja. This story tells a heartwarming tale about perseverance, family, tradition, and the love that can be shared through food.

Our story will be accompanied by a food bingo game, in addition to a craft in which participants will have to consider the importance of texture to creating a truly gourmet meal!

If you can’t make it this week, no worries! Feel free to use this colouring sheet, to print at home or to pick it up from your local library branch. Don’t forget to check the week 5 online reading list.

Sincerely,
Nadine and A.J.

Summer Reading Week 4: Natural Environments Around the World

Summer Reading Week 4: Natural Environments Around the World

by | Jul 21, 2025 | Books, Children & Families, Summer Reading

 Hello Summer Readers! 

This week’s theme is all about the Natural Environments that can be found in each and every corner of Earth! We hope you bring your binoculars for our Safari Scavenger Hunt, where wild animals have taken a safari of their own within each Huron County Library branch. After that, we’ll be reading the story I Am a Meadow Mermaid by Kallie George. A heartwarming story that looks at an environment that can be found across the globe. To finish off our programming, we’ll be blending reading and nature together with a unique craft.  

If you can’t make it this week, no worries! Feel free to use this colouring sheet, to print at home or to pick it up from your local library branch. Don’t forget to check the week 4 online reading list to find a book about natural environments!  

Sincerely, 

Nadine and A.J. 

Summer Reading Week 3: Animals Around the World

Summer Reading Week 3: Animals Around the World

by | Jul 13, 2025 | Children & Families, Summer Reading

Dear Summer Reading Kids,  

After getting active and engaged in some international games, we will be exploring the world’s strange and intriguing animals as this week’s theme.  

To continue our fun-filled summer, we’ll be looking all the way to South African animals in the story The Ugly Five by Julia Donaldson – a campy story about animals of the Savannah who find comfort and glee in embracing their appearances. This week’s craft is a favourite of A.J.’s- it tasks participants to make a fun and easy-to-use animal toy that can climb over and over again. We will play a creepy crawly game together called “Eek! A Snake!” Better keep your nerves while we work together to reach the finish line.  

For anyone who can’t make it this week, we have something special for you too! This colouring sheet is a fun way to spend time, print it off at your library or at home! You can also check out our week 3 online reading list to find books about all kinds of animals – big, small, friendly, not-so-friendly… check it out! 

Sincerely,  

Nadine and A.J.