2024 Summer Reading Program
Read & Record at least 20 minutes each day in your Beanstack Account. You can read any book, magazine, or audiobook that interests you! If you read for MORE THAN 20 MINUTES a day, that's awesome, but it will still only count as ONE DAY. SO, if you read for an hour on Tuesday, you get credit for reading and logging on Tuesday, but you can't divide those 60 minutes to count for other days that week. The goal is to read EVERY DAY--for at least 20 minutes.
Each day you read and log 20 minutes you are automatically entered in the Readers Raffle, which will be drawn weekly. Entries reset each week on Sunday. Winners are announced on Tuesdays.
Read and log at least 20 minutes a day to earn each virtual Reading Badge and associated rewards.
| Register | 7 Days | 15 Days | 24 Days | 34 Days | 45 Days | 60 Days |
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| Lanyard, Danbury Westerners Ticket, Bookmark | Adventure Begins at your Library Poster, Brag Tag | Deborah Ann Ice Cream Coupon, Brag Tag | Friends Book Sale Coupon, Brag Tag | Toy Chest Coupon, Brag Tag | Name Plate in a Library Book, Brag Tag | Ridgefield Library Mini-Journal |
| 1 Grand Prize Raffle Ticket | 1 Grand Prize Raffle Ticket | 2 Grand Prize Raffle Tickets | 2 Grand Prize Raffle Tickets | 3 Grand Prize Raffle Tickets | 3 Grand Prize Raffle Tickets | 4 Grand Prize Raffle Tickets |
For each reading badge, activity badge, and review badge that you complete, you will receive raffle tickets for our Grand Prizes! Enter tickets into the bins to win one of the adventurous prizes!
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| Win a firetruck ride to school from the Ridgefield Fire Department. (Winner will be connected with the RFD to arrange their ride.) | Three horseback riding lessons lessons at Stony Lane Stable in Ridgefield (ages 3+), Nat Geo Ponies & Horses Sticker Activity Book | Day passes and a month membership to Rock Climb Fairfield (under 12 must be accompanied by an adult) | Smokey Bobblehead, Smokey the Bear Puzzle, Smokey Bear’s Cooperative Board Game, Wildfire! by Ashley Wolf and Nat Geo Wildfires by Kathy Fugang, binoculars and travel compass | New Sprouts Camp Out! Set and pop-up tent, binoculars, travel compass, Bompa’s Insect Expedition by Tanya Lloyd Kyi and The Things That I LOVE about TREES by Chris Butterworth |
Earn badges for our SRP while also participating in the Ridgefield Conservation Commission and Parks & Rec Summer Trekking Program! Visit ridgefieldconservation.org/trekking to log your hikes and be entered to win great prizes! Check out trekking bags at Parks & Rec or the Library.
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Around the Globe |
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I Survived |
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Star Lore |
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Bird Songs |
Smokey the Bear Weekly Search & Find
Celebrate Smokey's 80th Birthday with our Weekly Search & Find! Our Smokey figure will move the Monday of each week. When you find Smokey, DON’T MOVE HIM! Remember where he is and whisper to a librarian where you spotted him in order to earn a badge!
Check out Smokey's Reading List by the USDA and U.S. National Forest Service by clicking here.
Mondays: June 24-August 19, 2024
Each Monday there will be a different adventure-themed take & make available in the Lodewick Children's Library. One per child and while supplies last. Take & Make projects are geared towards students entering grades K-6.
Walk around Down-town Ridgefield and read "Once Upon a Book" by Grace Lin and Kate Messner, while also getting some exercise and visiting town. Pick up a handout at the Children's Services Desk to participate and finish the puzzle to earn a rubber duckie!
Great news, readers! You can participate in both the Governor's Summer Reading Challenge AND the 2024 Ridgefield Library Summer Reading program! You can keep track of your reading on Beanstack and use that information to submit your reading journal for your school at the end of the summer.
Monday: 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday: 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday: 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
(closed summer Sundays)
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