Schaumburg Library Invites All Ages to Take the Winter Challenge

All ages are welcome to participate in the Schaumburg Library's Winter Challenge, which includes reading books and completing activities that are good for body, mind and nation. Library cardholders may sign up beginning Friday, Dec. 1 and will receive a log (online or printed) to track their progress. Participants will earn a badge for signing up and for each activity completed. Upon earning five badges, children and teens will win a book and adults will be entered into a drawing to win a $10 gift card to half Price Books. Thirty-five gift cards will be awarded.

Additionally, the Winter Challenge could be a means for providing books to children whose families cannot afford them. The library's online reading log software, Beanstack, has teamed up with Dallas Mavericks Owner and Shark Tank personality Mark Cuban to extend an offer to participating libraries: read a total of 50,000 books and one million minutes in January, and Cuban will donate $25,000 to First Book, a national charity that provides books to children in need.

"Let's do our part to make this happen," said Monica Harris, the Schaumburg Library's Executive Director. "Reading benefits the reader, but now it can benefit others as well. If we all join in, we can get books to a lot of kids who need them."

For a full listing of programs at the Schaumburg Library's three locations, see the library's Guide which is mailed to Schaumburg Township residents and available at www.SchaumburgLibrary.org.