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[darchildre]

So, it's June, which means it's Summer Reading time at the library. The way this works in my library system is: you read for 10 hours and get a prize! (Kids get to pick from a selection of books, adults get a prize that varies year to year - this year, it's a picnic blanket.) And then, if you read a total of 100 hours, you get a tshirt that says "100 Hour Reader" on it!

10 hours isn't actually a huge amount of reading, so a lot of folks get that done fairly quickly and then come in for their prizes. In past years, we've done a lot of business in mid-June with 10-hour readers, then something of a lull in July, then an explosion of both 10-hour and 100-hour readers in August.

Except! This year, it was decided that we would be giving out no prizes until August. We don't even have the books yet. (We do have the tshirts and some of the picnic blankets, though apparently we are going to be getting more.) We haven't been given a really satisfying explanation for why we're doing things that way this year. Also, though the fact that there are no prizes till August is written both on the reading tracker and our website, it's not at all prominent and I would be shocked if anyone had noticed it.

So, basically, this is the summer of library employees making kids cry. Because that's definitely what we need this year.



(Probably your local library system has a cool Summer Reading program that probably involves prizes for adults - you should check it out. Maybe you will get your prize before August, even.)

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[silveradept]

That's certainly going to happen, yes. My system got around it by changing their goals to 45 days of reading except for the adults and the very youngest, and the very youngest get their guaranteed prize up front (a board book).