Gallery: Stoughton Public Library Kicks Off 2012 Summer Reading Program

The following is submitted by the Stoughton Public Library Photos by Sue Hargreaves:

The for children and teens kicked off June 28, with dozens of children packing the Wales French Room at the library to signup. It runs until August 10 for the children and August 8 for the young adults/teens. 

The theme of this year's children's program is "" while the theme for the young adult program is "Own the Night."

The children receive prize incentives for reading 3, 8, 15 or 25 books or if they read chapter books each 50 pages counts as a book.  They enter for raffle prizes for every book they read and move their symbolic "bed in a cloud" along the back bulletin board in the children's section of the library as they read more books. 

There are programs offered all summer long for the children to attend.  There is zumba for ages 6-10 and crafts for kids 3 1/2-6 as well as many other programs.  There are Arts in the Park Programs at the South School every Monday while the program runs.  On Friday, July 20th at 10am there is a preformance by Johnny the K in the South School cafetorium open to everyone.

At the finale party the raffle prizes are drawn (There are raffle prizes for parents as well!) 

The young adult program also offers prize incentives for reading. The teens receive prizes for reading 5, 8 or 12 books. They must submit a brief book review for each book they read. 

The teens also make out raffle tickets for every book read to be drawn at the finale program. 

The teens have programs such as martial arts, zumba, and many crafts. They are also having a psychic evening, ghost hunting program and zombie make-up workshop. 

At the end of the program they will be having an ice cream social with face painting and glitter tattoos.

All programs are free of charge as long as you sign up for the summer reading program at the Stoughton Public Library!

Come join the fun!