Oamaru Public Library youth librarian Alison Sofield holds book bingo cards for the competition she has organised for the summer holidays. Photo by Sally Rae.
Youth librarian Alison Sofield has come up with the idea of having bingo-style cards for the summer reading programme, divided into age-groups for children between 12 and 17, 5 and 12 and a third group for the preschool-aged library users.
The aim was to get children to read a variety of books, in different genres, with them having to complete a line of their "bingo" card.
They then had to rate the books as awesome, cool, not bad, OK, or waste of a tree.
Already, 34 children have enrolled for the programme, which will run until the end of January, and sponsored prizes have been obtained.
