Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System Offers Summer Fun

Join Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System and “Get Creative” this summer to discover the fun, free ways to spend your summer reading. The 2009 Summer Reading Program is open to young people, preschool through young adults with programs, story hours, reading lists, prizes and more.

This program offers children and families numerous reasons to visit their library to learn, read and enjoy good times with friends and neighbors. This year the program began June 1, and ends on Aug. 1.

Throughout the summer, the system’s 33 libraries will provide a wide variety of books and reading materials at no cost; feature storytellers, arts and crafts, animals, movies and music that stimulate children’s creativity and help bring literature and language to life and promote the idea of reading for enjoyment. The program encourages summer reading and works to build a lifelong love of reading and books.

It’s easy and free to join the Summer Reading Program. Children and teens complete a simple form with their name and contact information, and hand the form in at any branch of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System.

After signing up, each person receives a reading log to keep track of books that are read during the summer. The library awards a certificate when readers complete ten books, and the reader’s name goes into a drawing for prizes like computers and iPods. Children up to age 12 will participate in the “Get Creative at Your Library” program and teens, ages 13-17, in “Express Yourself at Your Library.”

Find the full list of programs on www.afpls.org. All programs are free and open to the public.