Summer Reading Week 8: Mail Around the World

Summer Reading Week 8: Mail Around the World

by | Aug 18, 2025 | Summer Reading

Dear Summer Reading Kids,  

After getting active and engaged in some international games, we’re taking a look across the world to New Zealand with our theme “Mail around the world”!  

Get your pens and papers ready, because this week we are going to write some super cool letters to our friends all the way on the other side of the world in a library in New Zealand! The Wellington Library is in Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. They live in the North Island, also called Te Ika-a-Māui, in the language Māori! Wellington is right beside the Tasman sea, which is the ocean. In our letters we will ask questions about life in New Zealand, draw pictures for our new friends, and tell them about our lives in Huron County! 

We will be reading a book called A Letter to my Best Friend by Yangsook Choi, a story about a boy who writes a letter through pictures to his best friend who lives all the way across the world in a country called Korea.

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 try to write a letter to a friend or family member and see if you can bring it to them or send it in the mail! You can also check out our week 8 online reading list to find a book about letters or mail that you’ll love! 

As this is our last week, it’s a chance for us to say goodbye to our new friends, as well as giving out our final prizes for reading excellence! 

Thank you all for an amazing summer, 

Sincerely,  

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.

Summer Reading Week 8: Houston, We Have a Problem

Summer Reading Week 8: Houston, We Have a Problem

by | Aug 19, 2024 | Children & Families, Reading, Summer Reading

Did you know it’s our last week of summer reading club already? We have had so much fun this summer and we are sad that it’s coming to an end (but not before one more week of fun!)  

This week our theme is “Houston, we have a problem!” and we will be learning about all the technology that helps us discover and learn about the mystery of space! Did you know that there is a robot (rover) on Mars right now, exploring? Its name is Curiosity, and it’s been working for 12 years! Together we will read Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover by Markus Motum, and create our own kaleidoscopes with recycled materials! As this is our very last week of club meetings this summer, we will say goodbye to all our new friends and give out prizes to celebrate everyone’s amazing reading accomplishments!  

Thank you all for an incredibly adventurous and fun summer, and as always, for those who were designing robots and could not make it to our club, we will miss you, but we have colouring sheets and a techy reading suggestion list for you to enjoy! 

Keep reading! 

Nadine and Morgan