The Ultimate Summer Challenge is the Calgary Public Library's largest program with close to 20,000 people signing up annually for the last seven years.
6-year-old Maribelle Bowns loves to read with her mom Lindsay and the two have signed up for the Calgary Public Library's Ultimate Summer Challengeis the Calgary Public Library's largest program with close to 20,000 people signing up annually for the last seven years.
"What we're doing is creating a daily habit of reading," she said. "So once you've done that for 62 days, you're not going to stop on September 1. It just keeps on going and into the school year and into that back-to-school feeling -- so that's really what we're after."Once signed up, there is an app to track daily reading and see how everyone in the family is progressing.
"I would love for her to have filled up that sticker chart and the coloring sheet as much as she's happy with," said Bowns. "And to be able to proceed into Grade 1 knowing that we've read so many books, we've had so many imaginative trips during the summer, she will have new talking points with her friends, new vocabulary and have been practicing her reading right back into the school year.
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