Mother Daughter Book Club and Giveaway
Both of my girls are big readers. T can read a novel in two days and Gabby reads for hours every day. I was excited to learn about the Mother Daughter Book Club that launched this summer. Although Gabby loves to read and reads very well she always picks short story books over chapter books. Over the past couple of months I have encouraged chapter books more to work on her short term memory and comprehension skills.
About the Mother-Daughter Book Club:
Start a tradition of reading with your daughter with a Mother-Daughter Book Club! Scholastic’s monthly selections will help you choose books that you and your daughter will enjoy!The book club launched May 1 with 4 titles: Glory Be by Augusta Scattergood, Pie by Sarah Weeks, The Boy on Cinnamon Street by Phoebe Stone, and Tomorrow Girls: Behind the Gates by Eva Gray. The June titles include The False Prince by Jennifer Nelsen and Whatever After: Fairest of All by Sarah Mlynowski, and there will be 2 new featured titles each month.
Scholastic’s Mother Daughter Book Club not only features two new titles each month, their website also offers ideas for your book club meetings including recipes and discussion guides. It’s so important to encourage reading with your children, especially during the summer months while they are out of school. Finding books they can truly enjoy will make reading so much easier.
Gabby was given a chance to browse all six titles in the book club and she is eagerly reading them. She was so excited about the different titles and the variety of story lines. Although Gabby started reading the first book alone she has told me about it and we plan to use the second book as a bedtime story to read together. The Mother Daughter Book Club will make the perfect bonding time for us and we will read one to two chapters each night together before bed. Most likely she’ll read to me but occasionally I’ll read out loud as well.
Grab one of the June book selections to read with your daughter and join the Mother Daughter Book Club with us. Enter to win my giveaway below thanks to Scholastic and receive all six book club titles along with a $50 gift card to host your own book club meeting. A perfect prize pack to kick off your summer!
*Prize Pack valued at $140
Full Disclosure: Prizing & samples courtesy of Scholastic. I received copies of the book club selections for review. All opinions are 100% mine.
I encourage my daughter to read by getting her books that she is interested in reading. She loves to read, so it isn’t too hard!
Lots of trips to the library and blocking out reading time.
We read together, and include trips to the library in our weekly activities.
We go to the library and story time at the bookstore.
going to the library and letting them pick out books of their choice
we go to the library!
We go to the library weekly to get books
My daughter naturally likes to read. My son, on the other hand, has to be pushed to read outside of school. Having books on my tablet or computer helps him do it on his own.
I get my children new books about topics that interest them.
I try to find books that will interest them so that they want to read!
going to the library and joining book clubs…
My Daughter and I trade off. I have to read one book to her and then she has to read one book to me. I like how she changes her voice for the characters.
Take a lemonade break & read! grammypenny@frontier.com
Using the e-readers seems to be motivating
We pick a book out and then read it from start to finish and then we pick a next one after each one we finish.
By giving out rewards when a child finishes a book.
We participate in the Library summer reading challenges.
We always did the library summer reading clubs and she picked her own books
I enroll my daughter in our libraries summer reading program. Every time she reads a certain amount each week she gets to pick out a prize.
We read everyday. That is one habit I make sure we keep up with.
we participate in a program at the town’s library that rewards children for reading
go often to library
We love the library’s summer reading program!
We joined the summer reading program at the local library
summer program @ the library rewards the kids w/ prizes w/ each book they read that encourages them big time to read!!!
I make sure I buy lots of books from the book fair so that they have books they want to read. They also see me reading and this makes them want to read. thank you!!
We take weekly trips to the library for new books.
By doing it myself – children may not understand or spell hyprocrisy but they know what it is
ky2here at msn dot com
I encourage reading by offering a big reward for meeting a summer reading goal.
By enrolling them in the summer reading program at our local library where they earn great prizes
We read together and listen to the music
We take trips to the library or get new books.
reading outside is a fun thing to do!
Reward for reading… read a certain amount of books and earn a toy or game.
We shop at the used book store weekly to encourage reading!
I go to libraries and bookstores, and talk about books I’ve loved!
We make bi-weekly trips to our community library for reading hour!
We go to the library once a week.
austma7@aol.com
I sign up my kids for the library’s summer reading program so they can earn treats like ice cream sundaes for reading and writing reviews of books!
Trips to the library
we go to the library and are involved in the library reading program
We make a “quiet time”–no going and doing, no running around. Just being quiet for an hour or so a couple of times a week.
The kids have been signed up for the summer reading program at our local library. Eery day is ended with reading before bed…..great way to wind down the day!
Summer reading programs at library – so there are prizes to win 🙂
I encourage reading by reading at least one story every night before bed
read stories at bedtime
It’s not hard when your choices are reading in air conditioning or going out in the 90+ heat.
My daughters and I take weekly trips to the library and shop online with Amazon.com for used books.
We have a 1/2 hour quiet time each afternoon to do our reading. If we are out having fun, we make it up in the evening.
I let my daughter pick out her favorite books and we read together almost every night.
I encourage my kids by reading myself.
We participate in library reading activities.
I take my daughter to the library often
I enrolled the girls in a summer reading program at the local library
Keep it light – choose easy books that don’t seem like a huge task. Also reading in a great spot helps like along the river on a picnic.
Luckily I don’t have to – my son is a voracious reader!
We read daily, and I also make sure I read on my own around them to encourage reading. Thank you for the lovely giveaway!
Erin E
busymom369 at gmail dot com
by setting aside time every day
By going to the library!
We give prizes based on the amount of books read.
The library has a reading contest with prizes.
We read at the park while having a picnic!
ptavernie at yahoo dot com
I reward the kids after reading.
We go the library and we also “play” school
Keep plenty of books and magazines around the house.
We make weekly trips to the library.
I guess I’m one of the lucky few. I don’t need to do any encouraging… in fact, I need to encourange my son to go outside or do something other than read! Of course, his mother and I both read a lot as well, so its to be expected. I’d love to pick up the book club selections! Thanks!
I lead by example. I real so my daughter wants to also,
Library story hours are the best
annabellainla@gmail.com
We set aside time in the afternoon for reading… and we both read a lot to set a good example… also we’re active in the programs at our local library
we go to the library every week and let them pick
we read aloud
vmkids3 at msn dot com
We go to the library often. Thank you for the giveaway!
We read a family story every night as well as go to the thrift store monthly to pick out a few books each.
By keeping the house nice and cool. Heat=fatigue=no reading.
We read together and we also go to the library. On cooler days we go to the lake and have a picnic while we read. I love spending our days like that.
The library is a weekly destination.
I will take the kids to the bookstore and let them choose a couple of books each
brich22 at earthlink dot net
I love to read in the air.
going to the library
By reading also. I also bribe them, if they read for an hour they can play a video game for an hour.
By going to the library frequently
By reading a lot and talking about books.
We go to the library together and pick out books and we read them together before bed
Always having reading time together before bed with a snuggle
We go to the library
My boys are in the library summer reading program.
How do you encourage reading during the summer months?
i throw the book at em..seriously..no choldren…send em to the library!
When my daughter was young we would go to the library several times a week. I also would let her see me reading.
I lead by example. I read to my son and he reads to himself. We cancelled our cable last year and after about a month, we don’t miss it at all. There are better stories on paper than TV will ever carry.
We go to the library each week to find a good book to read.
We get a lot of new books and the kids get rewards for reading a certain amount of books.
I lead by example!
I go to the library very often.
We read together, usually by laying in bed with our own books.
both my kids love to read…so i actually have to make them stop and go outside!
I always encourage reading and always have books and magazines around the house.
Forgot my email for address above
Lorena W
caspersworld @ aol dot com
I read a lot of articles & forums online.
Find an appealing subject/catergory
I read out loud at bedtime.
We go to the library a lot.
by discussing the book with my daughter
By going to the library and reading before bedtime.
We read books with my kids together
We visit the library weekly and I’ve enrolled Liz in the summer activities at our library.
we have “quiet time” for about an hour a day after lunch. time to read.
Visiting the bookstore!
with 5 grandkids here everyday, we have quiet time sometime everyday…they also have story time at the library
my daughter and i like to sit on the swing in the yard and read
I encourage reading by taking lots of trips to the library!
Lead by example!
We entered the library’s reading rewards program and we set aside some time each day for reading. Plus I read a lot, so it’s a good example.
I take the kids on regular trips to the public library to encourage their love of reading.
Going to the library together and reading together every day.
we make bed time an hour later as long as they spend that hour reading.
I make sure that my grandchildren are well supplied with books!
Started with library story hour, then by example–checking out library books, and doing a lot of reading myself.
wweekly libary trips
Thanks for a great contest! janna johnson jannajanna@hotmail.com GFC: janna@feedyourpig
We take LOTS of trips to the library (we currently have 135 books checked out between me & my 3 kids :))
We take a trip to the bookstore every tuesday!
i offer ti read them a book at bedtime
amy16323(at)gmail(dot)com
Read and finish a book, they get a ice cream treat
We read at bedtime and also have a kind of designated reading time every day.
I’m an English teacher so my house is filled with books and we are always talking about what we are reading and making trips to bookstores and libraries.
Signed my daughter up for the summer reading program at the local library this summer
kport207 at gmail dot com
We love going to our local used bookstore!
i am very lucky. i do not have to do anything to get her to read. the problem i have is getting her to go out and play.
We go to the library quite a bit…and like the previous poster said, I don’t really have to encourage her, she just wants to read all the time. (just like me!)
Although my children are grown, , I encouraged summer reading by reminding them of the school required summer reading and providing the books, as well as frequent trips to the library, and setting an example by reading books myself.
With summer visits to the local library.
We visit the library at least twice a week!
We go to the library or book store often and have fun picking out new books.
go to the library they have all kinds of activities
by reading outside – at the beach, if possible!
We mimic the Drop Everything And Read Program the kids do at school – and we read on lifeguard breaks while at the pool! 🙂
e-mail: gildedaged (at) gmail (dot) com
Library time, lots of books available, book gc’s for rewards.
The library is great !
we read at the same time,and that works well
ardelong2(at)gmail(dot)com
Signing my kids up for the local library’s summer reading program! They’re motivated to meet their goals.
1 hour of reading a day 🙂
I make a reading chart for my kids with different prizes per how many books read!
my kids love reading! but i get them to continue by reading to them every night and always looking for new bargain books to keep things fresh.
I don’t really have to, he likes to read. Thanks!!
During the summer, we are always at the library checking out books and on the lookout for great books at yard sales.
I encourage reading by making it a daily fun ritual we do together
We join the summer reading program, set the reading goals and attend the programs they offer.
I encourage reading by making sure books are readily available and by making sure they have library cards. I also am an avid reader, so I hope that encourages them to read as well
I make it challenging and fun. My daughter expressed interest in the planets and stars, so I told her if she were really interested, she would read about them and learn. It usually works.
Weekly library visits
We get involved in the library summer reading program.
repose4jr at gmail dot com
My kids love reading me bedtime stories.
We do contests with prizes
I encourage reading during the summer months by having the whole family read together