Reading Rocks at the Mount Pleasant Public Library!

Join the National Circus Project for the big Kick-off events at the Main library in Pleasantville for the Children’s Summer Reading program on Friday, June 22 at 1:00pm or 2:30 pm. The show will feature circus arts from around the world – juggling, unicycling, balancing, object manipulations and clowning – and lots of audience participation.

Reading Rocks! the Children’s Summer Reading Program is for children entering Pre-K – Grade 4 in the fall. After registering, children can pick up their summer reading backpack, reading record, and stickers to mark the time spent reading this summer. They can also add Pete the Cat shoes to the display in the Children’s room. They add a sticker to their record with every half hour of reading they do. Each time they bring their records to the library they get to pick a Pete the Cat trading card, and get a raffle ticket to enter to win a weekly prize, and the grand prize of a Kindle Fire kid’s edition.

For students entering grades 5 – 12 in September, the library has a Young Adult Summer Reading program. Participants create an online account, log their minutes read throughout the summer and are entered to win weekly prizes. At the end of the program they are awarded raffle tickets based on the number of minutes they have read and any challenges they have completed. Those tickets are then entered into the grand prize drawings, which includes a Kindle Fire Tablet (courtesy of the Valhalla Lions), an entertainment bundle (featuring a prize from the Jacob Burns Film Center), and a bag of books full of advanced readers and popular titles (from the Village Bookstore and Friends of the Mount Pleasant Public Library).

Both programs run June 25 – August 3. Register online, by phone or at the Main Library in Pleasantville or Branch Library in Valhalla.