Reading Patch Club
Join the "Reading Patch Club" by reading great books or having books read to you. Earn patches for your jacket or backpack!
Register at the Information Desk in Children's Services.
Choose the patch you wish to earn and start reading!
Preschoolers
Young children can join the Reading Patch Club by having someone read books to them! There are now four patches to choose from: Read-to-Me, We Read Together, Reading Makes Me Happy or Cuddle Up With Books. Read 50 books to your child or children. When you have read a book write down the title and author in the folder. When you have read all 50 books, bring your folder to the Information Desk in Children's Services and we will give your child a patch!
Kindergarten Patch
While they are in Kindergarten, children can earn two special patches, the Wagon patch and one called Warm Up to Books by having someone read (or reading themselves) 50 books.
First Graders
First graders have a chance to earn an "I Can Read!" patch by reading 20 books on their own. They can then move on to "I Can Read More" and finally to "I Can Be A Star Reader." To earn each additional patch they will need to read 20 more books.
2nd - 6th Graders
Students can choose from 19 different patches. Students must work on one patch at a time but can earn one of each patch during the school year by reading eight books in that category.
Patch catagories are:
Adventure
Animals
Anything Under the Rainbow (Any combination of books--fiction and/or non-fiction that they'd like)
Award Winners
Biography
Days of Long Ago
Dig Up (Their choice of non-fiction books)
Dinosaurs
Folk and Fairy Tales
Holidays
Humor
Mysteries
Poetry
READ (Their choice of any fiction)
Read Around the World
Scary Stories
Science
Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Sports
Supported by generous donations from the Friends of the Library and the Park Ridge Kiwanis (Noon).
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