Excellent piece, Becca! Libraries are a wonderful place and those reading challenges are a great way to keep the kids entertained. Since my son hasn’t yet started his school holidays, this has given me an incentive to get him to the library asap after school breaks this coming week.
This reminded me of a vacation in France when he was 5, where we were staying in a small cabin. In the middle of the day, we stayed inside, out of the heat. I had brought the entire Mr Men library, which had been a present from my dad. My son, having not long mastered reading, was so delighted to be able to read them to himself that he would spend every midday reading one after another. He read the entire thing around 3 times over.