Summer Reading Renaissance: An Interactive Exhibits Approach

Energize your library summer reading program with this new approach that involves all ages, and rekindles the desire for children and families to read together for recreation, pleasure, and their own curiosity. No more counting hours or books, no rewards and awards--just reading and learning fun! Soltan offers practical guidelines for designing an interactive, centers-based program; and presents four complete themed units that include sample projects, materials lists, and suggested books. (Five more themes are outlined in the appendix.) She shows you how to build interest and use technology; as well as how to evaluate your program. This is a creative, hands-on approach that will get readers involved and keep them involved summer after summer, and all summer long.

Rita Soltan, an independent Library Youth Services Consultant, worked as a public children's librarian for 32 years in New York and Michigan, and she supervised youth services departments for 15 years. She is author ofReading Raps: A Book Club Guide for Librarians, Kids and Families (Libraries Unlimited, 2005) and she reviews children's books forKirkus Reviews and School Library Journal.