who is doing the reading challenge this summer

My younger three DC are doing it. They enjoy it every year and read anyway so it's just giving them a little recognition for doing something they already enjoy. DD2-6 has read four so far.

So, thanks to this reminder, ds (9) & dd (7) now signed up.

I've found them a stash of likely books - thought it might be worth us all posting ideas, so's to help with picking from library stock (which can be a bit variable)?

We have some usual suspects, like Joan Aiken, Philippa Pearce, Enid Blyton, Cressida Cowell, Terry Deary and a couple of the "Dead Famous" biography things; but also some new to me:

• Julia Jarman book about girl with cat that takes her travelling through time to solve mysteries

• Geoffrey McSkimming (more time travel & historical mysteries, with a boy-y slant (ie not pet-focussed) this time)

• fantasy-adventure set underneath Manhattan, by Suzanne Collins

hula - he got none of that
will ask next time

DD is doing the reading challenge- she is so keen on getting a medal, whether it be a paper one or a real one! She is only 3 though but the librarians know her so they let her do it. They said though we could only count the chapter books she read out aloud....grrr to them!
I have set my rules for DD- only one Rainbow Fairy book and one Lucy Daniels book, listening to anymore of them being read out loud is mind numbing.

We got the naff pen too. He should have got a sheet with 3 stickers on too Popsy - a bronze medal sticker, and two stickers to go on the Team Read poster you get when starting.

You can track your progress on the Team read website too. DD just logged in and found it all this afternoon.

We are, at least dd1 is (dd2 is book crawling, too little for the challenge)
She was all fired up when we went to lib on MOnday, since then her books have languished on shelf. Will have to kick her up the arse encourage her to get going.

oh its the same thing

ds1 only got a naff pen for his bronze - no sdtickers

reafd properly nowitis team read he is doing

ds1 is doing it

moondog - so will DD. She loves reading and reads every day, through hoice and for enjoyment. But she is 6y, she loves stickers - and the library challenge incorporates both!

Aye probably

You're in a sour mood, Moondog.
MN is very anti-fun last few days.
Some kids need encouragement, many parents on this thread are saying that they might not manage to get to the library very often if it weren't for the incentive scheme.
Not all kids or families easily take to the joy of reading, eh?

What is the point of spreading more expensively produced tat around the globe that average kid will play with for oooh, 15 minutes?

My childminder took my kids to fire station. They came back with v expensive looking goody bags full of all sorts. I wanted to point out that the visit itself was the fun bit.

I just feel so irritated at the way that things have to be marketed, which invariably involves public funds being frittered on banners, posters, websites, badges and stickers.

Having extra entitled justification to bleat on at children's librarians (a nice lot) about what they really liked and what else it was like and ... so on. Altogether a good thing in my book

Mine read constantly all the time and have no need at all for incentives - but they still think it's FUN - joining in with something children all over the country are doing, having an excuse to raid the library for forgotten treasures, discovering new authors, and so on.

Dd1 is on her 5th book. She doesn't need any encouraging.

Dd2 has been allowed to enter as she atsts school in September.
But she cannot read???
She is on her 2nd book.

Last year dd1 got osme seeds ot plant and loved it.
Think they get an odd stretchy man this year?

My kid/s will read because the habit itself is intrinsically reinforcing. They don't need medals or stickers or certificates. Acknowledge however that useful for many.

We are doing it, but am trying to persuade DS2, in particular, not to choose really long books as he'll never read 6 of them - they are out at day camp all this week and DS2 is too knackered to do anything other than eat, wash and sleep afterwards.

The librarian told me that they had targets, and the school sent a note to parents saying they wanted to get 200 children participating. We always do it, but often read books from home. The library doesn't care.

Team read website

Ah right, okay. Thought we might have supposed to have been in some mini team or something, trying to do it as fast as possible! Glad it is just a case of reading during the holidays. DD is loving the whole thing. She enjoys reading anyway, but likes the idea of going to the library to chnge the books and telling the librarian she has finished them and getting her stickers.

Didn't hear about it from school though, so not happening via that. No doubt DD will take her certificate in to school to show her teacher though.

I used to do something liek this when a child at my local library. But it was never some big national thing at all.

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No
Not at all
Have just devoured a Stephen King novel by pool in 2 days and din't even hide the cover.

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