I’ve had a Little Library in front of my house for the past two houses, and it has always been wildly successful with both adults and kids. People always have really interesting books to share, and sometimes I get really excited when out of the blue, I find one of my favorite books in my library…and I didn’t put it there! Someone else is reading my jams! Woot!

But I’ve also seen parents of little kids use the library on a frequent basis, creating a routine for their reading cycle. Honestly, besides the struggles of trying to keep moisture out of the box (silicon packs help!!), there is nothing difficult or challenging about Free Little Libraries…and they have a map of registered libraries for you to find ones in your neighborhood!

This app is a subscription, but it’s $5 a month…and completely worth it. This app is very well organized by genre, subject, theme and topic, and you can select ages to specify exactly who is reading what kinds of books. But the app is geared towards kids who like technology…so they can get badges for a variety of things.

One of my kids is completely hooked, and needed to get the badge for “Read 5 Books Before 7am,” and by golly he did it! I also get emails telling me how many books they’ve read, and how much time they spent reading the book.

I gotta say: this is totally worth my $5.

The art of the comic book embraces the grip of the character in a beautiful dance of storytelling. Not everyone gets comic books. And I get that.

Comic books are absolutely not for everyone…but for some, they are everything.

True comic book aficionados know the backstory of a character, side stories, alternate timeline stories and where the movie went wrong (in excruciating detail). If you cannot get your kids into the Hardy Boys series, consider the X-Men series; it’s about a bunch of people with unusual talents working together to save the world. Or Wonder Woman, whose destiny was molded by her mother and hewn by justice.

You don’t have to enjoy them, but you can let someone else enjoy them!

There was no day I loved more in school than the day when Scholastic books brought their display to my school library. I spent a ridiculous amount of time looking over each and every book, and I was able to buy one book…which I treasured like nothing else.

Scholastic always has the best, funnest ideas for reading. They have print outs you can use with your kids to find books at the library together, like “Judy Moody and the Bucket List,” or “The Girl Who Drank The Moon,” or The Magic TreeHouse series!

This page kinda has it all. Summer reading programs, lists, resources, book adventures…plus some I’d never considered, or even knew about. Did you know Chuck E. Cheese has a reading program, and they’ll give your kid 10 free tokens if they read for 2 weeks?

Pizza Hut also has a reading program for free pizza! TD Bank has a reading program, and if your child finishes the reading, TD Bank will deposit $10 into their reading savers account! I love seeing unique ways the world is helping all of our kids be great readers!!