BIG Summer Read
1 December 2024 – 31 January 2025
Get ready to dive into books this summer with the BIG Summer Read – a fun reading challenge for children and young people 0 to 18 years.
The challenge? To keep reading over the summer school holidays for your chance to win a prize. It’s as easy as Join. Borrow. Read. Win!
Participation is free and open to all Victorians aged 0 to 18 years. Independent and non-independent readers can log any book they read, that is read to them, or listened to as an audio.
Join: Register for the BIG Summer Read and make sure you select Stonnington Library and Information Service as your local library. Children under 13 years will need consent from a parent/guardian.
Borrow: Books, eBooks, audiobooks, graphic novels and more.
Read: Ten or more books – any and all reading counts.
Win: Log your reading by 31 January 2025 for your chance to win a prize. There are statewide and local prizes to be won!
Who can participate?
Anyone aged 0-18 years and residing in Victoria can join the BIG Summer Read.
The program is aimed mostly towards primary-school aged children but is open to anyone under the age of 18 years.
Independent and non-independent readers can log any book they read, that is read to them, or listened to as an audio.
Prizes
Participants who complete the program by 31 January are automatically entered into the State-wide and Stonnington prize draws.
Public Libraries Victoria are offering four book packs split into age groups:
- 0-4 years: Board books
- 5-8 years: Picture books
- 8-12 years: Junior fiction/graphic novels
- 13-18 years: Young Adult fiction/graphic novels
We’re also offering some cool local prizes, including book vouchers, movie vouchers and swim passes. Check back here to see what’s on offer.
Privacy Policy and Data Collection
BIG Summer Read is a state-wide reading program for Victorians aged 0-18 years that runs from 1 December 2024 to 31 January 2025 (Program). The Program encourages children and young people to read for pleasure over the summer school break. Council is running the Program through its libraries and encouraging users to register to participate in the Big Summer Read challenge.
We will collect the following Personal Information to administer the Program: your/your child's full name, email address, password, year of birth and your primary local library (Personal Information).
The Personal Information will be used to:
- administer, evaluate and report on the Program;
- enable you and your child to enrol in the Program and record the books read;
- contact you about the Program; and
- deliver a prize to you if you enter the prize draw and are selected as a winner.
Council will disclose your Personal Information to its Program partner, Public Libraries Victoria (PLV). PLV may also share your Personal Information to its partners, which include the School Library Association Victoria, StoryBox Library, Bolinda BorrowBox, James Bennet and uLibrary.
If you do not provide your Personal Information you will not be eligible to participate in the Program. If you wish to access or alter any of the Personal Information that you have supplied to Stonnington City Council, please contact Council’s Privacy Officer by telephoning 03 8290 1333 or emailing council@stonnington.vic.gov.au. For more information about how Council handles Personal Information, please refer to our Privacy Policy. You can find the PLV Privacy Policy here.
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