Our Summer Reading Program will begin on Saturday, June 11 and continue through Saturday, August 27.
Children and teens are invited to read and listen to books, earn prizes, and participate in library events this summer.
Information for children is on this page. If you're looking for information for 6th - 12th graders, please see our TNT (Teen & Tween) page here.
Registration:
Register HERE for reading/listening/earning prizes and events.
Sign up for additional events HERE if you've already registered and want to add additional events.
Update: We've added a new program.
Porthole Print Making
Tuesday, August 9 at 6:45 P.M
at The Center
Mrs. DeMint, a local art teacher, will lead this class using foam printing to create a porthole design.
Best for elementary ages. Children of all ages are welcome.
Please register here.
General Information:
- Everyone may participate in our Summer Reading Program. You don't need a library card to read, earn prizes, or attend programs! You only need a card to check out items from the library. See information about getting a library card here.
- All programs are free.
- Grade levels are for the grade you will be in next school year (2022-2023).
- Older and younger siblings are welcome to attend children's programs with family members.
- Registration for events is requested so we can prepare for the right number of participants.
Read, Listen, and Earn Prizes
- Read books, ebooks, or magazines.
- Read to yourself or to someone else.
- Listen to audiobooks.
- Listen to someone else reading to you.
Earn prizes and enter the prize drawing as you reach reading goals throughout the summer! See details on our reading logs.
Reading logs will be available at the library beginning June 10.
Prizes/Prize Drawing Entry Forms
You'll receive a prize AND enter the prize drawing as you complete the reading/listening goals on your reading log.
Fill out and cut out the tickets on the side of your reading log and bring them to the library to receive your prizes and enter the drawing.
If you're using our Curbside Pickup and would like to pick up prizes curbside as well, please email youth@milanlibrary.org to make arrangements for your prizes to be ready to be picked up curbside.
Events
Milan's Healthy Summer
Our library is partnering with Aid in Milan, Milan Seniors for Healthy Living, and Moving Milan Forward to provide this intergenerational program supporting healthy bodies (reading, mental health), healthy minds (healthy eating, physical activity), and a healthy community (connections with each other, recycling).We'll host weekly events for children (accompanied by a parent/adult), senior adults, and individuals of any age with cognitive impairments. Events will be presented by a variety of community businesses and organizations.
See the schedule of Milan's Healthy Summer events here.
Touch a Truck
Thursday, July 21, 5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
Wilson Park
Children will see a police car, fire truck, ambulance, and many other vehicles. They can sit in the driver’s seat, meet the people who drive them, and learn about the jobs they do in our community.
Our library and Parks and Rec will host approximately 25 vehicles including Aid in Milan's Pantry on Wheels delivery van, an American Aqua technician's van, Backstreet CruiZers' train, Brushfire Design's work truck, Don Pitcher's rock bouncer, a DTE line truck, a Getaway Tours charter bus, a concrete mixer truck from Gotts Transit Mix Inc., HART Huron Valley's rehab truck, motorcycles from Hot Rods Motorcycle Awareness and Suicide Prevention Foundation, a Huron Valley Ambulance ambulance, a boom truck/mobile crane from Just Right Grain Systems, half-scale tractors from Little Tractor Co., a Milan Area Fire Department fire truck, a Milan Area Schools school bus, a Milan DPW snow plow, Milan Historical Society's 1938 Ford fire truck, a Milan Police Department patrol car, Milan Seniors for Healthy Livings' transportation minivan, a Monroe County Road Commission dump truck/snow plow, Moving Milan Forward's event trailer, farm tractors from Neuhart Auctioneering, a University of Michigan transit bus, a snow plow and aerial lift signal truck from Washtenaw County Road Commission.
Tiny Tales
ages 2 and younger
at Aid in Milan
Fridays, July 8, July 22, August 5, & August 19 at 10:30
We are excited to resume Tiny Tales after a 2-year hiatus! We'll read one short book and have lots of wiggly fun with songs, finger plays, dance, and more. We'll wrap up with play time.
Storytime
ages 3 - 5
at Aid in Milan
every other Friday morning at 10:30
June 17, July 1, July 15, July 29, August 12
Children will participate in books, flannel board stories, songs, dance, finger plays, crafts and other activities. Books and activities will follow our Summer Reading Program theme of Oceans of Possibilities.
Saturday Stories
best for preschool - early elementary
at Aid in Milan
second Saturdays at 10:30
July 9: ocean theme
August 13 - guest: Aid in Milan, theme: helping and receiving help in a community
Children will hear books and participate in related crafts and activities.
Adventurers
Kindergartners - 2nd graders
Mondays, June 20, July 25, and August 22
Children will listen to books and participate in related crafts, games, or other activities.
June 20: Shark theme
July 25: Fish theme
August 22: Beach theme
Explorers
3rd - 5th graders
Mondays. June 27, July 11, and August 8
Children will participate in games, crafts, and other projects.
June 27: fish and shark crafts
July 11: ocean trivia and sand-clay creations
August 8: tbd
Bookworms
2nd & 3rd graders
Wednesdays, June 8, July 13, and August 10 at 4:45
in The Center
Children will read or listen to a book before we meet. They'll then discuss the book and participate in a related craft or activity during Bookworms. Copies of the book (and audiobook, when available) will be at the circulation desk for you to check out beginning a month before the program. Books for the summer are:
June - Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne, the first book in the Magic Tree House series.
July - The Great Pet Escape, a graphic novel by Victoria Jamieson
August - The Adventures of Arnie the Doughnut: Bowling Alley Bandit by Laurie Keller
Chapter Chatters
4th & 5th graders
Tuesdays, June 21, July 19, and August 16 at 4:45
in The Center
Children will read or listen to a book before we meet. They'll then discuss the book and participate in a related craft or activity during Chapter Chatters. Copies of the book (and audiobook, when available) will be at the circulation desk for you to check out beginning a month before the program. Books for the summer are:
June - Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein.
July - "how-to" books. You can read book that help you learn how to do something - drawing, origami, pet care, sports, magic tricks, anything!
Questions
If you have any questions, please let us know here.
If you have any questions, please let us know here.
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