Summer reading challenge Calgary Library’s most popular program [Video]

The Ultimate Summer Challenge is the Calgary Public Library’s largest program with close to 20,000 people signing up annually for the last seven years.

The challenge is to encourage every family member to keep track of their reading throughout the summer.

“It can be your family reading at home, it can be your book club, it can be a group of girlfriends sharing titles through the summer,” said Melanie Nicholson, communications lead at the Calgary Public Library. “Read as much as you want, read whatever you want, it can be a fiction novel, it can be a comic, it can be a graphic novel, it can be an audio book, it’s really just about establishing that habit of reading and having fun while you’re doing it.”

Registration opened June 1 and the free program runs from July 1 to August 31st. Nicholson says it’s easy to sign up and participants are eligible for prizes …