A Friendly Summer Reading Contest
I know a lot of kids are gearing up to head back to school already, but not us. It’s still summer to us, and will be for a while. Yesterday, I was at a discount bookstore in Turkey Creek, and they were having a huge sale. I got tons of books for the kids. When I got home, Kyra wasn’t sure where to start. I had Encyclopedia Brown, Cam Jansen, Mary Kate and Ashley, Katie Kazoo, Hank the Cowdog, and lots more popular kids series books. I brought home biographies of Daniel Boone, Eleanore Roosevelt, and Harriet Tubman. I had classic kids’ books like “My Side of the Mountain”, “The Borrowers”, and “Pippi Longstocking.” I was so excited. Two bags full of books for forty dollars. I didn’t even make it out of the children’s section, and I was there for an hour.
So, while she’s excited about reading, she and I started a little reading contest. Whoever reads the most books by the end of August wins. (I’m assuming that you realize that, considering the length of adult books compared to children’s books, this contest is majorly skewed in her favor.) As a super awesome bonus, if she reads 30 books by September she wins a date with me to Wasabi and Menchies…two of her favorite places. That’s a lot of books, but I’m sure my little bookworm can do it if she wants to badly enough.
So…anyone want to join our contest? If you have any kiddos that want to read with us, let me know, so I can give Kyra a little extra excitement and motivation. All you have to do is read books. You can’t count anything that you’ve already finished. If you are currently in the middle of a book, you can count that one. When I post a blog post asking for an update, you can give me your total and titles in the comments. You can read whatever type of book that floats your boat, but for kids’ books to count they need to at least be chapter books. We will run this thing on the honor system, and the winners (if we have children participating, we will have an adult winner and a child winner) will be announced on September 1st, and will receive an Amazon gift certificate. Kyra and I will obviously not be included in the prizewinning portion.
So, who’s in?
I should have known I could count on you!