Public Library Summer Reading Program

The South Carolina State Library is proud to announce the statewide kickoff for the state’s public library summer reading programs to be held in Columbia on June 4, 2011. StoryFest SC is a new literacy event which introduces South Carolina’s children to literature and story in a family fun setting. The event celebrates the 2011 Collaborative Summer Library Theme One World, Many Stories by bringing together two well-known award-winning authors, Chris Raschka and Alan Katz, along with South Carolina’s own Brian McCreight, in a free event for families to be held at the State Museum in Columbia.

StoryFest SC exposes families to children’s authors and the art of story and fosters an excitement for reading, especially throughout the summer. All of South Carolina’s public libraries participate in the State Library coordinated summer reading program.

Events will be held at the South Carolina State Museum at 301 Gervais Street from 10am to 6pm and is free to the public. There will be two presentations by each author, a craft area, storytelling sessions, bag lunches in the Congaree Room, bounce houses, visits from characters such as SCETV’s SmartCat and University of South Carolina mascot Cocky, and a Reader’s Theater presentation.

Families are encouraged to come together and each child will receive a literacy bag with two signed books by the authors and the State Library’s South Carolina Day by Day Family Literacy Activity Calendar. The day’s events will bring families from across the state to participate in fun, learning activities in a safe, family friendly setting.

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