The Read, Discuss, Do Summer Challenge: Art Camp!

  Our annual summer reading challenge begins soon, and this year our theme is Art Camp! As always, the Summer Challenge is a way to pair books with summer fun, and this year will be all about have some summer camp style fun and sharing ideas for creative art play inspired by some of our favorite picture book illustrations. We hope you'll come along! Don't miss out. Sign up for our newsletter for all the campy, creative fun to come right to your inbox!

Summer Challenge Week Five: FIREWORKS!

 


We are into the second month of celebrating reading and fun with the Read, Discuss, Do Summer Challenge! If you are just joining us, feel free to catch up with previous challenges or dive right in starting with this week's theme: FIREWORKS!

We are continuing a celebration of the USA with today's theme, but even if you're not planning on doing any celebrating this week, you can still play along by reading a book that features fireworks and doing some kind of fireworks activity with your readers. Besides lighting or watching actual fireworks, you could write your own poems about fireworks or create a fireworks themed art project. Be creative and have fun! If you share about this on social media, please use the hashtag #RDDSummerChallenge on Instagram and Twitter. 

Recommended titles: 

Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasons by Laura Purdie Salas, illustrated by Mercè López - A collection of haiku which is not specifically about fireworks, but look at that cover. And there is a haiku about fireworks in it. 

The Night Before the Fourth of July by Amy Wing, illustrated by Amy Wummer - A charming story about a family's Fourth of July celebration written in the style of T'was the Night Before Christmas.

You're My Little Firecracker by Nicola Edwards, illustrated by Natalie Marshall - A cute and festive board book celebrating the love between parent and child.


Do you have a favorite fireworks book? Do you like to light your own or watch from a distance? 

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