Story time resumes in 2022 at the Warsaw Community Public Library. Check the event calendar at the library’s website for dates and times. Pictured is Duane Herendeen. Photo provided by WCPL.

By Amy Mann
Children’s Services

Approximately 1,000 children in the community participate in the summer reading program each year at the Warsaw Community Public Library.

Patrons of all ages can win prizes for doing something that, hopefully, they already enjoy doing. So what happens when the winter doldrums begin? Christmas break is over, but spring won’t be here for a few more months. Check out the library’s website for directions on how to sign up for the winter reading program.

“Beanstack” is the library’s new reading program software. Once you’re in the system, it will be even easier to sign up when the time for summer reading rolls around. You can register either via the library’s website or the mobile app, on a computer or phone. WCPL also has computers set up if you need to use them. Patrons can register and participate using paper forms, and staff will transfer the information to the system. Whichever way you have registered, feel free to take a Bingo sheet for visual encouragement. An adult can add children to their account, if they’d like to, for ease of logging and checking progress.

Children can earn small prizes, a book of their own, and a chance to win one of four large prizes. If you look in the library’s display case upstairs, you will see two three-pound milk chocolate Hershey bars. Those are two of the prizes. Interested yet? Also available for one lucky winner is an Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids Pro. The last prize is an Amazon Echo Show Kids. But, of course, reading just for the joy of reading is perfectly acceptable and just as exciting. Sign up and join in the fun.