Waterville Public Library

Children's Room

"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered as a precious gift." ~Kate DiCamillo

Zeus the Moose, the Children's Room mascot!

Level Up at Your Library with Summer Reading 2025

Level Up at Your Library with our 2025 Summer Reading Program!

Pre-registration opens on June 14th, with the reading challenges opening on June 21st!

Read with your best buddy, a new adventuring party, or together with your family. Enter the amount of time you spend reading. Meet the reading goal for your age bracket and earn prizes!

These challenges are designed for all ages and abilities!

Sign up through Beanstack!

Go to: https://watervillelibrary.beanstack.org/
Create a user account and add reader accounts for each person participating.
Log minutes read to unlock electronic badges!

Our challenges measure minutes spent reading or being read to. Read what you enjoy best: Books, e-books, audio books, magazines or newspapers all count!

Don’t have a computer or smart phone for logging into Beanstack? Paper logs are available.

Everyone who completes all three reading goals is automatically registered for a grand prize drawing in their age bracket, to be held at the end of the summer.
Remember, you may repeat the challenge as many times as you can. You earn the prizes for the first three levels only once, but every time you make it through, you will earn EXTRA entries into the Grand Prize Drawing. Get in the game and Level Up at Your Library!

Weekly Programs for Children:

· Crafternoons: Tuesdays, 2:30 pm - 4 pm, Come make the craft at the Library with help from our staff!

· Homeschool Hub: ON HIATUS FOR THE SUMMER. See you in September! Thursdays, 1 - 2 pm, Homeschool students who are pre-school through elementary grade levels are invited for fun and activities!

· Book Bites! Read-a-Loud with Mrs. Liz: Thursdays @ 7 pm via the WPL Facebook Page

· Rhymetime: for Babies, Toddlers and Their Grownups! Fridays @ 10:30 am in the Children's Room!

1000 Books Before Kindergarten is ongoing!

Parents! If you read at least one book a day to your child from infancy through their toddler years, you will have read to them 1,095 books in three years, thereby setting them up for success when they enter into kindergarten. Part of Waterville Public Library's mission is to come alongside you and provide for your growing family titles, tracking, and rewards for this journey.

It's as easy as downloading the Beanstack app on your mobile device and logging in the books that you read. Earn incentives for every 100 books read! Sign up at https://watervillelibrary.beanstack.org/ or through the app!

Please call 207.872.5433 for assistance and more information.

Updated: 10/02/2024

UPCOMING EVENTS

June 06, 10:30 am - 11:00 am
Rhymetime: for Babies, Toddlers and Their Grownups!
June 10, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Crafternoons - Yarn Bug
June 12, 7:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Book Bites! (Facebook Read-A-Loud)