Everyone is getting caught reading this summer

A marble statue reads a book in the Newton Free Library.

Working that Summer Reading Bingo...

Have you read in a hammock yet?  Ms. J. has. 
Check it off. 
It looks like she is reading a magazine. 
Have you read any good magazines this summer? 
How about a food and cooking magazine?
Or a sports magazine? 
Anyone read about the World Cup in a magazine? 
The only problem with reading in a hammock... it is so comfortable it is pretty easy to fall asleep.

Reading on a boat?!

Here I am reading away on board our kayak.  I'm reading a graphic novel memoir about a women who grew up in Iran titled, Persepolis. It is fun to read outside, but it is very hard to paddle and steer while reading!

Caught reading in New York City

Ms. J. was recently visiting the Big Apple and in addition to eating dim sum in Chinatown and catching a show on Broadway she was caught reading in some interesting spots.  Can you guess where she is in each of these photos? She was reading The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton. It was 864 pages and it weighed over 2 pounds!  It was long and it was heavy to carry around but it was amazingly good which is why I managed to finish it.  Then I read a book by Carl Hiassen who wrote Chomp and Hoot and Scat.  He is a very funny writer.

Reading at the beach

Ms. J. reads Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer on a nice quiet stretch of the beach at Walden Pond.

Book Buddies and Summer Reading

Don't worry about the Upham Library Book Buddies.   Today is the official 1st day of summer - the summer solstice - and they are already doing their summer reading. 

What are they reading?  A great new picture book, The Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan.

As you can see Ms. J. has already checked off "Reading on the couch" on her summer reading bingo card.

Summer Reading 2014

The Wellesley Public School library teachers have put together a summer reading list with suggestions for books from a wide variety of catagories and reading levels.

Follow this link to see the list we put together: WPS Summer Reading Lists, Logs and Bingo