Camp Summer Read

Covering nearly every possible detail for starting a summer reading camp, this helpful guide addresses camp length (hours per day to how many days), when and where to hold it, registration, and cost. Other chapters include book suggestions and lists to use when selecting titles, considerations for preparing a wide variety of activities, choosing volunteers, and things to remember when providing snacks. Based on their own teaching, library, and camp experiences, the authors believe that sharing books and reading aloud are not only fun activities, but they also allow young readers to gain oral language skills and background knowledge while making connections. Written in a pleasing conversational text, the book is accompanied by delightful black-and-white stick-figure drawings. The first half of the volume concludes with an outline of step-by-step activities during a day at a summer book camp, with possible modifications given throughout. Forms, letters, a certificate of appreciation, etc., for either public or school librarians and teachers to use when organizing a successful and memorable book camp appear in the second half of the book.—Susan Shaver, Hemingford Public Schools, NE