Summer Reading Club

What are you writing this summer? What are you reading?

As writers, our on-the-job training is one of the most delightful experiences on the planet: we get to read, read, read!

Yesterday I stopped by our local public library to drop off a stack of books so huge my husband had to help me carry them. And then I checked out my new stack of books: picture books I had ordered online and that were now like new friends sitting in a row on the library “hold” shelf, waiting to come home with me.

I brought them home and immediately fell in love with an all-time new favorite! Splat the Cat. If you haven’t yet read it, run in a stampede out to your library or the bookstore and read it!!!! I can’t decide which I like better, the art or the story. I can’t decide who I like the most, Splat or Seymore. But I know this…I love it!

I’ve already read it a gazillion times. I sat down with my husband Jeff and we read it together on the couch. I told part of it to my son over the phone. I wished I had a little one to snuggle with and read it it!

So then I got an idea: Let’s have a Summer Reading Club! I saw signs for kids to sign up for one at our library. I wanna be in a Summer Reading Club, too! If you want to “join” just make it your goal to read, read, read your way through summer over the next few months.

I’ll be sharing some of my favorite reads here on my blog over the next few months, and I hope you’ll share some of your favorites, too!