🖍️ Library Girl Reading Challenges: December

Just for fun, I’ve started creating monthly reading challenges for readers of all ages. Here's the one for December!

I started creating these reading challenges as a way to offer some examples of how we might challenge kids to read in authentic ways that center joy and fun. I hope they also help teachers and librarians build even stronger reading communities. It's been a fun project and it's been incredibly rewarding to see them being used in schools and libraries around the country (I haven't seen any international examples - yet!) All of that said, I haven't decided if I'm going to continue making them in 2025, but we'll see! Whatever I decide, all 2024 reading challenges will remain available at the link below.

In the meantime, as a reminder, back in January, I decided to create monthly "reading challenges" that:

• focus on authentic reasons for reading (instead of having kids log page numbers, etc), and...

• couple reading with coloring BECAUSE both reading and coloring are proven stress relievers - and I feel like we all could use a bit less stress right now.

 You can download this resource, and all the other month's challenges, here.

Finally, I've gotten some questions about how I create these. I use a combination of the following tools to create the monthly book challenge (and the book related) coloring sheets I share. Each coloring sheet takes me between 4-10 hours to create. (I'm slow).

• Canva

• MS Designer

• Gimp: GNU Photo Editor

• My own drawings (created using Procreate on my iPad)