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Get ready to dig in, grow your imagination, and harvest rewards all summer long! This year's theme, Plant a Seed, Read, is inspired by the farm-to-table movement and celebrates how things grow. Farms grow food that fuel our bodies, libraries grow ideas that feed our minds, and both connect us to family, culture, community, and the world around us. When you plant a seed or open a book, you nuture something amazing! All summer long, we will be cultivating fun with live performers, hands-on fairy garden creations, visits from real (and pretend) farm animals, and plenty of surprises still waiting to sprout. But that's just the beginning!
Get a printable schedule of this year's summer events HERE. Also available en español. You can also sign up for our monthly newsletter to keep up with everything happening @theLibrary.
Plant a Seed, Read begins on Thursday, May 21. Click the button below to sign up online or use the Beanstack app. All participation must be logged online by Friday, July 31. Grand prizes are provided by a generous donation from Friends of the Ascension Public Library.
Babies and toddlers earn prizes based on the number of books that are read to them. Your goal is 20 books.
After registering on Beanstack, visit any Ascension Parish Library location to receive a 4-color click pen, magnet, and bookmark.
After logging 20 books on Beanstack, visit any Ascension Parish Library location to receive a certificate, tote bag, one pick from our prize bin for kids, one discount pass to Premier Lanes, one Raising Cane's free Kids Combo bookmark, and one Chick-fil-A dessert gift card. You will also earn one chance in our grand prize drawing.
Earn one additional grand prize drawing chance for each additional set of 20 books logged on Beanstack, limit 24 chances. Standard prizes are available while supplies last.
Grand prize — Large play tent with flags and star lights
Kids earn prizes based on the number of days spent reading books or magazines or listening to audiobooks. Your goal is to read for 30 days.
After registering on Beanstack, visit any Ascension Parish Library location to receive a 4-color click pen, magnet, and bookmark.
Earn a badge and one chance in our grand prize drawing for every 3 days that you log reading on Beanstack. After logging 15 days of reading on Beanstack, earn one pick from our prize bin for kids. After logging 30 days of reading on Beanstack, visit any Ascension Parish Library location to receive a certificate, tote bag, one discount pass to Premier Lanes, one Raising Cane's free Kids Combo bookmark, and one Chick-fil-A dessert gift card.
Earn one additional grand prize drawing chance for each additional set of 3 days spent reading logged on Beanstack, limit 24 chances. Standard prizes are available while supplies last.
Grand prize — Mini indoor greenhouse growing kit
Teens earn prizes based on the number of days spent reading books or magazines or listening to audiobooks. Your goal is to read for 30 days.
After registering on Beanstack, visit any Ascension Parish Library location to receive a pen and bookmark.
Earn a badge and one chance in our grand prize drawing for every 3 days that you log reading on Beanstack. After logging 15 days of reading on Beanstack, earn one pick from our prize bin for teens. After logging 30 days of reading on Beanstack, visit any Ascension Parish Library location to receive one duffle bag, one discount pass to Premier Lanes, one Raising Cane's free Kids Combo bookmark, and one Chick-fil-A dessert gift card.
Earn one additional grand prize drawing chance for each additional set of 3 days spent reading logged on Beanstack, limit 24 chances. Standard prizes are available while supplies last. Teens 18 years old may choose to participate in either our teen or adult summer reading program.
Grand prize — Waterproof, floatable bluetooth speaker
Adults earn prizes based on the number of books, magazines, or audiobooks read or listened to.
After registering on Beanstack, visit any Ascension Parish Library location to receive a bookmark and one pick from our prize bin for adults.
After logging 3 books on Beanstack, visit any Ascension Parish Library location to receive a tote bag. You will also earn one chance in our grand prize drawing.
Earn one additional grand prize drawing chance for each additional set of 3 books logged on Beanstack, limit 24 chances. Standard prizes are available while supplies last.
Grand prize — Cast-iron, enamel Dutch oven, a copy of the cookbook Bayou by Melissa Martin, and an assortment of local spices and pantry goods
