Summer Reading Program

• Visit Lenox Library to pick up your Summer Reading materials starting June 24. Join us on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 12:00-3:00 p.m. for our Kickoff Event! Create a craft to add to our “Garden of Good Intentions,” find our Library Gnome Gnorbitt hidden somewhere in the Library, and enjoy some Hawaiian ice from Kona Ice – their truck will be parked behind the Library from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m. Youth who pick up a folder for Summer Reading will receive a ticket for one FREE Hawaiian ice!  Summer Reading materials also may be picked up any time after this event during regular Library hours.
• Use a tracker sheet to record how much you read*
• Color in one bubble on your tracker sheet for every 10 minutes that you read or someone reads to you. Read printed books (including graphic novels!) or ebooks or listen to audiobooks or playaways. They all count!
• When you fill up a tracker sheet, bring it back to the Library to receive a free book and one “Chance to Win” ticket. (You’ll place your “Chance to Win” ticket into the container for the prize you would like to try to win.) You also will receive another tracker sheet.
• The first tracker sheet you turn in also wins you an ice cream gift card!
• After the End of Summer Reading Party, we will pull one ticket from each container and award that prize to a lucky winner. (Limit one prize per child.)

*Summer Reading Challenge: Help us reach our goal of 600 completed tracker sheets! For every one tracker sheet you turn in, $1.00 will be donated to the Lenox Ecumenical Food Pantry! Thank you to BIRCH Properties for their generous donation to make this possible!

Join us for exciting activities, listed below, including our End of Summer Reading Party happening Saturday, August 22, 2026, 12:00-2:00 p.m. We will learn how many tracker sheets were turned in and if we reached our donation goal!

Events include:

Kickoff Event!
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
12:00-3:00 p.m.
Pick up your Summer Reading folder, receive a FREE Hawaiian Ice from Kona Ice, create a craft, and find our Library Gnome Gnorbitt hidden somewhere in the Library!

Terry A La Berry and Friends
Tuesdays, June 30 – August 18, 2026
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Musical performers Terry A La Berry and Friends are back for their 18th season! Fun interactive music for our littlest friends. Come join in the fun! This event is held outdoors in Roche Reading Park next to the Library. Please bring a blanket or folding chair. When joining us for an outdoor event, children under 10 years old who enter the Library building must have their caregiver with them.
The 2026 engagement of Terry A La Berry and Friends is generously sponsored by the Nancy F. Brown Memorial Fund.

A Special Sheep Story Time!
Thursday, June 25, 2026
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Join Le Petit Ranch and Lenox Library for a very special sheep story time experience! Meet real sheep while learning all about sheep, wool, and life on the farm. Enjoy a sheep-themed story time with the flock nearby, create fun sheep arts and crafts, and spend time feeding and gently petting our woolly black and white friends. A magical hands-on adventure for all ages and abilities! Registration required. Please stop by the youth desk or email Vanessa at vjustice@lenoxlib.org to sign up.

Confetti Popper Craft
Friday, July 3, 2026
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Kids of all ages can make a fun craft to celebrate 4th of July! Use cardboard tubes, balloons, and confetti to make your holiday celebration extra special. Children under age 10 must have a caregiver with them.

Ballot Ballad: WAM Theatre Program
Tuesdays: June 30, July 7, 14, & 21, 2026
4:00-7:00 p.m.
Performance/Showing: Tuesday, July 28, 2026
6:00-6:30 p.m.
WAM (Where Arts and Activism Meet) will hold a five-week program titled “Ballot Ballad” at Lenox Library for middle school students (ages 11-14). The program will focus on women in American History and will explore one of the biggest “what ifs” in our country’s founding—“what if women had been in the room where it happened?” We also will examine the history and current landscape of civic engagement in Massachusetts and the United States. Participants will take part in ensemble-based theater and movement workshops, taught by a WAM Theatre Teaching Artist, and craft original performance pieces. Open to all who are interested. Registration required. Please stop by the Youth Desk or email Vanessa at vjustice@lenoxlib.org.

Teeny Tiny Book Club
Fridays, July 10 & 24, and August 14, 2026
3:00 -4:00 p.m.
A club for teens ages 13-17 who will read short stories, novellas, poems, and other mini writings. Participants will meet three times during the summer to talk about books and stories as a group. Meetings will happen outside in Roche Reading Park; snacks will be provided. Teens may choose selections from a list of suggested materials or pick their own. They may also use these for writing reviews for the Teen Grand Prizes. Visit the youth desk at the Library to learn more.

Garden Party: Stories and Songs of Gardens and Nature!
Saturday, July 11, 2026
2:00-3:15 p.m.
P-A-R-T-Y in the G-A-R-D-E-N! From clearing the land to planting seeds to harvesting the crops (yum!), Rona will share stories and songs that will have you tapping your feet, swaying in your seats, dancing, singing and laughing as she shares stories from the silly to the serious, from the mysterious to the monstrous! From cooperating animals to uncooperative giants, worms and bugs that help the soil, nocturnal animals, insects, finding the sun and more! Come join the fun! Best suited for ages 5+. Takes place in Welles Gallery. Following the 45-minute performance will be time to create a fun craft!

Kids Graphic Novel Club
Wednesdays, July 15 and August 12, 2026
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Join Lenox Library for an exciting club for kids in grades 3 – 6. Come talk about your favorite graphic novels and create your own! Meets once a month. Children under age 10 must have a caregiver with them.

Create Your Own Paper! With Crane Museum of Papermaking
Friday, July 17, 2026
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Join Crane Museum staff and Lenox Library for a hands-on papermaking demonstration and an opportunity to make your own! Choose standard paper or seed paper (which can be planted to grow your own flowers!). All ages are welcome. This event is free of charge and will be held outdoors in Roche Reading Park, weather permitting.

Velcro Dodgeball for Tweens
Saturday, July 25, 2026
2:00-3:00 p.m.

Seed Globes
Friday, July 31, 2026
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Everyone is welcome to join us for an outdoor activity where we will make seed globes using clay, soil, and seeds! Take your seed globes, filled with native wildflower seeds, with you to plant wherever you go!

Little Free Library Story Time & Craft
Friday, August 7, 2026
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Join Lenox Library at Liston Park, (on Crystal Street in Lenox Dale) for a story time and craft for all ages. Take a look at our Little Free Library, take a book, or leave a book. Donations of new or gently used books will be accepted at this time.

Junior Librarian Activities
Daily, August 18 –21, 2026
Times and events to be determined by our 2026 summer cohort of Junior Librarians!
They will have been hard at work learning about librarianship, including planning and hosting a program for you to attend! Join one, or all, and show your support for them! (See details below for application information).

End of Summer Reading Party
Saturday, August 22, 2026
12:00–2:00 p.m.
Celebrate the end of summer with games, crafts, food and more! Learn how many people participated in Summer Reading and if Lenox Library reached its goal of having 600 tracker sheets turned in! 12 to 2 p.m.