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Catch the Reading Bug!
Free summer reading programs are offered at your local library.
Read what you want, when you want, and receive small rewards.
Activities and special events add to the fun.
Visit your local library to join.
Summer Reading Events | Summer Reading Resources
Entertainer/magician David Moreland will perform his “Catch the Reading Bug” program at a library near you.
Catch some laugh-out-loud fun!
Click for David Moreland's schedule
The Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park is bringing live animals to a library near you. Catch a close-up look at an exotic “bug” such as the Madagascar Hissing Cockroach, Chilean Rose-haired Tarantula,
Emperor Scorpion, or Giant African Millipede. Click for Zoo to You schedule
“Catch the Nature Bug” with Ginny Collins, a graduate student at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Learn about some local “bugs” and start a nature journal.
Catch the Nature Bug Schedule
Book Breaks
Personalities from WSTM-NBC3 will be visiting libraries this summer to read to children.
Book Breaks Schedule
Meet the Syracuse Chiefs
Meet a professional baseball player or the team mascot, Scooch, at a library visit from one of these Syracuse Chiefs celebrities this summer.
Chiefs' Visiting Schedule
Resources
Learn facts and enjoy stories about different kinds of bugs.
OCPL has some suggested books in a “bugliography.”
Visit the New York State Summer Reading Website for some fun and games.
Visit Camp Kid Scoop's Bug-a-Palooza for word games, riddles, fascinating facts, and more.
Kid Scoop is published in the Syracuse Post-Standard every Tuesday.
The Onondaga County Public Library’s 2008 summer reading program
is made possible in part by a state grant secured by Senator John A. DeFrancisco.
The 2008 New York State Summer Reading Program is supported by Federal Library Services and Technology Act funds awarded to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. CSLP art/graphics are copyrighted by Upstart for exclusive use by CSLP members and are used by permission. Copying or reproducing these CSLP art/graphics in any way by non-CSLP members is prohibited.