Beat the winter chill with great books!!
From the David A. Howe Library, photo by Mel Hunt
Starting the first Saturday of February, the David A. Howe Library will be hosting their second Winter Reading Program. This event will last four weeks – from Saturday, February 1, through Friday, February 28 – and is open to community members of all ages!
Each week of the program, we will ask participants to report the amount of time they have spent reading. Children and tweens will color in tracking charts and turn them in for a prize at the end of the program. Teens and adults will receive a bookmark on which to track their reading time, which they can turn in for a notebook or mug after the first week of the program. Participants are welcome to report their minutes in person at the library or online. Library staff will tally all of the minutes reported by participants each week and add them to our thermometer tracker! Our goal is for our community to beat the winter chill by collectively reading for 1,000 hours during the 4 weeks of the winter reading program. Adults and teens will also have weekly opportunities to enter a trivia contest for an additional prize.
The third week of the winter reading program coincides with Wellsville Central School’s mid-winter break, February 17-21. We encourage caretakers to bring kids and teens to the library to hang out, read, play games, do puzzles, and make use of our Xbox and Switch during this time. We look forward to seeing how many hours our community can read together this winter!