Check it out
by LEA AHMED

Last Thursday, June 3, Buda’s downtown park pavilion was filled with nearly 200 children and adults. It was Buda Library’s kick off for the summer reading program. This year’s theme is Catch the Reading Express.

The program included entertainment by dance students, a clown making balloon animals, face painting and, of course, train rides around the park.

The crowd quickly became a sea of yellow as the Friends of the Buda Public Library handed out t-shirts for all the children in the reading program. The shirts were printed with the Reading Express train on the front and a list of the many sponsors of the program on the back. The bright yellow shirts were provided free of charge for all the young readers. Adults made a donation to the Friends for their shirts which were so popular they had to reorder additional quantities. The shirts are now available at the library when the children sign up for the reading program. The adult tees will be there too.

The library tells us that the reading program has gotten off to a “flying start” or should we say, “off on a fast track.” There have already been lots of sign-ups for the title log for the pre-reader/listener group (up to second graders), where parents are reading to the youngest ones.

The young readers in the second to seventh grade can choose to do title or time logs, tracking the number of minutes they read. The teen readers from seventh grade up do time logs. The library reports that some of the teen readers are already turning in their logs for reading they have done since school ended.

The summer readers are excited about reading and looking forward to the many prizes to be given out at the reward ceremony at the end of summer. The library and the Friends of the Buda Public Library want to encourage more enrollments for the program. It is never too late to sign up and get “on track” to the world that awaits the reader.

Want more Library information? Call us at 295-5899 or email librarian@budalibrary.org.