Summer Reading Challenge 2025

 

 

The Summer Reading Challenge is returning to Havering libraries, and as always - it's free!  This year it's all about the magic of nature with the theme 'Story Garden'.  Its aim is to inspire children from ages 4-11, to tap into a world of imagination through reading, exploring the magical connection between storytelling and nature.

 

How to take part

 

1.  From Saturday 5 July, children can start registering to take part.  Simply visit any Havering library with your library card and ask one of our team members if you can register.  If your child is not yet a member of the library, please complete our online registration form.  You will be given a temporary library card number which you can bring with you, along with an official form of name and address.  We will then issue you a new library card.

 

2.  Once your child is registered, they'll be given a 'Story Garden' character to go on our progress wall and a list of session times.  

 

3.  Borrow 6 library books and take them home.  Once your child has read 2 books, return to the library you registered with, during one of the sessions and your child can speak to one of our library volunteers to tell them about the books they have read.  If you'd prefer you can do a book review for one of the books and tell us about the other one.  Your child will be given a 'Story Garden' sticker booklet and the first two stickers.  

 

4.  Return when your child has read another two books to receive the next set of stickers.

 

5.  To complete the challenge return before 6 September to tell us about books 5 and 6, after which, they will receive a certificate and medal and be entered into a prize draw for a nature book.  Pre-school children will receive a gold sticker instead of a medal.