Canvas Book Bags help Promote Reading
The 16th annual Family Read Aloud program is under way in the Tippecanoe County Public Library system. The registration deadline is Sunday.
The theme is “Chill Out & Read,” said Carol Stult, head youth librarian at the downtown library.
“We do it to encourage family togetherness, to read together, to highlight our collection, and to promote literacy and reading,” she said.
She said the monthlong Family Read Aloud program offers prizes as incentives.
“Families participating earn prizes for spending time at home reading together,” she said.
Families keep track of the hours spent reading aloud.
Prizes range from stickers and bookmarks for the first hour; Moe’s Kids Meal or Friends Book Bucks for the second; a canvas tote bag for the family for the third hour; and a family paperback book for the fourth hour.
The program is sponsored by the Purdue Employees Federal Credit Union, the Friends of the Tippecanoe County Public Library and Moe’s Southwest Grill.
Other programs at the library are part of the Family Read Aloud effort. There are regular storytimes for infants, toddlers and preschool children at the youth library downtown.
The Klondike branch and campus library at Ivy Tech Community College also offer family storytimes.
