Tip of the Day 6/17/11

A great way to motivate and develop good reading habits is to participate in your Libraries summer reading program.  The majority of Libraries have a program.  Most of the time it involves reading a certain number of books and earn a prize.  Most have a grand prize drawing at the end of the summer.  Our Library even has a program for adults.  If your Library doesn't have a program make one up for your family.  Include yourself and treat yourself and the kids to something SMALL (a DQ Blizzard, etc.) for every 5 books you read.  We are encouraging one of our grandsons to read more by offering to buy a book he mentioned if he reads 5 books over the summer.  Also check your local Book Store as many of them also offer a summer program.  Check out the books from your Library, buy books at yard sales, buy books from your local Book Store!  I still have the books I was given as a child and reread several of them every summer and have shared them with my children and grandchildren.  They evoke such happy memories.  When my girls were little I would purchase huge stacks of books each week at yard sales and they would zip through them, choose the ones they wanted to keep, donate the others to a resale shop or for a Library Book sale and then we would do it all over again.  I would offer the seller at yard sales $5 to fill up a bag just like at Library Book sales and often they would except my offer.  Attend your Libraries annual Book Sale or check with your local Book Store to see what types of sales they are having for the summer.  Our local Store is offering buy 3, get 1 free this month.  Happy reading.