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TD Summer Reading Club 2021
TD Summer Reading Club 2021
TD SUMMER READING CLUB STORYWALK
July 1 - 26: Downtown St. Thomas
August 3 - 31: Waterworks Park
Join us for the TD Summer Reading Club StoryWalk®: an outdoor reading
experience featuring The Thing Lou Couldn’t Do, written and illustrated by Ashley
Spires. Used by permission of Kids Can Press Ltd., Toronto.
Get the family outside for a walk while reading a book along the way. In July, find
the Story Walk downtown at local businesses. In August, the Story Walk will be in
Waterworks Park. Read each panel of “The Thing Lou Couldn’t Do” as you stroll in
the fresh air! Sponsored by TD Summer Reading Club.
AMAZING RACE ST. THOMAS BOOKMARK DESIGN CHALLENGE
Monday, July 5 - Saturday, July 31 Runs July 5 - August 30
Pick up your map from the Lower Level of the Library Templates available from the library starting July 5.
beginning July 5 during library hours!
Design your own library inspired bookmark for our Limited
On your mark…get set…go! Join us in an Amazing Race Edition Fall Bookmark Series! A winner will be chosen from
around St. Thomas! You will be visiting the various murals each category. Winning bookmarks will be printed and
we have around town, and doing specific activities at each distributed at the library as part of our Fall Bookmark Series!
one. The Race runs the entire month of July! Participants must
send in pictures of the completed activity at each mural to
be eligible for a prize at
stthomaspubliclibrary.ca/amazing-race.
JULY ESCAPE ROOM: ESCAPE TO HOGWARTS
Online all July!
Your Hogwarts letter accidentally arrives one day late, and as you have to travel
from Canada to England to take the Hogwarts Express, you actually miss the train.
How are you going to get to Hogwarts in time for dinner?
Scan to play!
TD Summer Reading Club 2021
TALE OF TWO CITIES YOUNG WRITERS’ CLUB SUMMER WORKSHOP I:
Thursdays: RAILWAY CITY WRITERLY TREK
July 8, 15, 22, 29 Monday, July 12
August 5, 12 4 - 5:30 p.m.
1 - 2 p.m. West End Reading Garden at St. Thomas Public Library (as
Hosted on Google Meets. Please keep an eye on our COVID restrictions permit). Registration required!
website for updated information. Registration required.
See the Railway City through a writer’s lens as we “trek”
Join us as we hang out virtually with friends from our sister via “special feed” with a seasoned young writer to five St.
library, Stony Plain Public Library in Alberta Thursdays over Thomas locales. Historic snippets and present-day fun facts
Google Meets. Each week will feature a different are sure to inspire spectacular stories. Registration includes
collaborative activity. Ages 9 - 12. a Railway City Writerly Trek backpack with “highlights” from
each locale.
YWC has been supporting, encouraging and inspiring
young writers since our launch in 2013! Ages 8+!
TWEEN SCENE (Ages 8 - 12)
Thursday, July 8
Thursday, August 5 DIGITAL CLAY: CREATE AND PRINT YOUR OWN 3D
4 - 5 p.m. MASTERPIECE
Hosted on Zoom and outdoors at the library if restrictions Friday, July 23
allow! Please keep an eye on our website for updated Friday, August 27
information. Registration required. 3 - 4 p.m.
Virtual program hosted on Zoom. Registration required!
July 8 - No Sew T-shirt Bag
Outgrown your favorite t-shirt? Need a bag for all your Jonathan will be giving a step-by-step tutorial on how to use
library books for Summer Reading Program? We have a a free 3D modeling software app to explore the world of
solution! Join us as we make no sew t-shirts bags. We 3D design. Kids will be able to send in their creations to the
encourage you to bring your own t-shirt but t-shirts will also Library to be printed. They will then be able to pick up their
be provided. masterpieces to take home!
August 5 – Bad Art Night
No artistic ability required! We will provide all the wacky
and wonderful art material you could ever want and then
you turn it into the worst piece of art you can imagine. There
will be a horrible trophy for the best bad art!
TD Summer Reading Club 2021
YOUNG WRITERS’ CLUB SUMMER WORKSHOP II: COSPLAY CONTEST
A SENSORY TWIST CHOOSE YOUR OWN Saturday, August 14
ADVENTURE 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Monday, August 9 Online submissions accepted until Monday, August 16!
4 - 5:30 p.m.
West End Reading Garden at St. Thomas Public Library. Will Get your cosplay on for Free Comic Book Day 2021! We
be hosted virtually if COVID restrictions require. Registration want to see your favourite characters come to life. There are
required! prizes for the best costumes in these categories: Babies, kids,
families, teens, adults, and pets! Weather permitting, we will
Indulge all your writerly senses with this special edition of have a fun photo backdrop outside of the library that you
Choose Your Own Adventure. All materials and sensory can use for your submissions if you would like to make them
items provided. Bring your appetite for adventure (and in person! If you can’t make it in, don’t worry! We’ll accept
beyond). submissions online at
YWC has been supporting, encouraging and inspiring stthomaspubliclibrary.ca/comicbookday.
young writers since our launch in 2013! Ages 8+!
TEENS
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY
Saturday, August 14
Begins at 10 a.m. and runs while supplies last! BOOK BATTLESHIP
At participating locations around St. Thomas, including St. Begins Monday, July 5 and runs until Wednesday, August
Thomas Public Library and Fan of the Sport. 25 during library business hours!
Come and pick up your free comics on August 14th! Come play Book Battleship on the Lower Level of the
Don’t forget to wear a costume, so you can enter our library! Every book you check out earns you a free guess
Cosplay Costume Contest! Limits to free comics will apply. on our giant Battleship Grid. If you sink our battleship, you
Comics available while supplies last! win a free book! The more books you check out, the more
guesses you get and the more chances you have at a prize.
Ages 12+.
AUGUST VIRTUAL TRIVIA:
SUPERHEROES SCAVENGER HUNT
Online all August!
August is superhero month! How many
of these superheroes can you name?
Scan to play! Scan the code to play online!
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