Hafnarfjörður Library's Summer Reading starts today.
The Summer Reading Programme is for everyone, and parents and guardians are especially encouraged to take part with their children. The Hafnarfjörður Library aims to help children and parents maintain children's reading skills over the summer.
With the summer holidays at Hafnarfjörður's primary schools just around the corner, reading can often be forgotten as there is so much fun to be had. Research shows that children's reading skills can be lost over the summer months, so it is important to maintain them during the summer holidays. Hafnarfjörður Public Library wants to help parents with this by offering a summer reading programme, as in previous years. It starts on 3 June and runs until 16 August.
The summer reading is for everyone
The Summer Reading Programme is for all children, and parents and guardians are especially encouraged to take part with children who are not yet reading independently by reading to them. Parents are also, of course, encouraged to read for pleasure themselves and to bring their children to the library in search of good books. Anyone interested in taking part in the summer reading programme can come to the library and sign up. There, everyone will receive a reading diary, which they then return to the library at the end of the summer reading programme. Everyone who returns their reading diary will receive a small treat.
It is also possible to fill in a book review for each book read and return it to the postbox on the children's and young people's floor. Every Friday, the 'Reader of the Week' is then drawn, and they receive a prize. On 7th September, a harvest festival will be held to celebrate the summer's good reading achievements with grilled sausages, games and entertainment. Prizes will be awarded to readers from all the diaries submitted.
Happy reading summer!