What’s it all about?
The Summer Reading Club is about reading and writing for fun and pleasure.
Every summer holidays, the State Library of Queensland runs a Summer Reading Program for children and their families. This program has a strong conservation focus. It is all about Paradise and how we can restore and maintain it.
Last year more than 8,200 Queensland participants enjoyed the program, reading more than 40,000 books, improving their reading skills and winning great prizes along the way.
The Summer Reading Club has two parts:
1. Library activities – State Library of Queensland and Queensland public libraries have great games, activities and workshops for kids to do over the summer. As well as a wide range of books, magazines and audio tapes to use.
2. The Summer Reading Club website – the website has lots of games, puzzles, quizzes and competitions to enter. Children are invited to complete authors’ stories, write book reviews, draw paradise and chat with Morris Gleitzman.
To get the most from The Club, your child should register at your local public library. This way they will also go into the draw to win some great participant prizes including an iPod, generously donated by Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Website activities
The website activities are separated into four levels based to enable a diverse range of readers to participate. Each level has a number of interactive activities including a game, a story, the Paradise e-Gallery and Book reviews. On the right hand side of the homepage you can listen to Paul Jennings read a story, read the latest episode of Pat Flynn’s story 'Sick', or read one of our virtual books. On Wednesday, 19 December 2007 at 11am, Morris Gleitzman was online for a one hour chat.
