Barnes & Noble is hosting their summer reading program again this year. Kids who read 8 books over the summer will be able to choose a free book from a select list of titles provided by Barnes & Noble. (Thanks Baby Goodbuys!)
To participate, your child needs to be grades 1-6 and read any 8 books between Tuesday, May 25 and September 7. The fine print doesn’t clarify whether the kids need to be starting grades 1-6 or completing grades 1-6, so I suspect either one is fine. The 8 books can be ones you’ve already got or ones from the library; no need to purchase 8 new books to complete the passport.
Borders also has a summer reading program, which we told you about a few weeks back.
Side note: As a grown up on Barnes & Noble’s website, you can enter to win a sweepstakes for a dream vacation when you write a 100-word book review. Let us know if you win, okay? :)
Your turn: Who else is offering a summertime reading program, whether a local bookstore or a national chain?
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Borders does the same program, only you have to read 10 books and any age child can participate. If you have a young child, you reading to them counts. Just remember that the free books are of a higher level than what a preschooler would be interested in. I say, get it anyway and save it for a couple years for them!
Leann-
Can you send me information about Borders’ program….I went to their web-site but couldn’t find anything about it. Deb
Plus, we posted about it here http://www.pocketyourdollars.com/2010/05/borders-summer-reading-program/. I’ll update the B&N post to include a link to Borders program so it is easy to find.
LIke Leann mentioned, Borders does the program Double Dog Dare http://www.borders.com/online/store/MediaView_doubledogdare?cmpid=SA_20100513_V2 and Half Price books does Feed Your Brain (earn $3 shopping cards each week) http://www.halfpricebooks.com/feed_your_brain.html. Click on the links for more details!
http://media.bordersstores.com/pdf/summerreading.pdf
Anyone know if the HPB one (like the borders one) can be used by pre-schoolers (ie. does reading to them count?). I know they’re a VERY flexible outlet (I used to work for one…actually owned by one person and her husband and they still gave Christmas and profit-based bonuses at that time), but I don’t want to push it by saying he “read” so many titles when he was read to unless that’s okay. I do know he would be excited to go once a week and pick out a book or two with that $3 gift card.
I used the HPB program last year with my preschooler, she was 4 and I didn’t run into any problems.