Summer & Winter Reading Challenges with Beanstack

Run seasonal challenges with less setup and more excitement. Beanstack pairs tracking and reporting with sponsored themes, prizes, and ready-to-use materials.

Banners from past Beanstack sponsored challenges, including Starry Nights & Reading Lights, Read with Benny, Find Your Reading Joy, and Splash Into Stories
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Two Seasons, Plenty of Reasons to Read

Starry Nights & Reading Lights winter reading challenge banner, sponsored by Lerner

Start the Year With Winter Reading

Give readers a new goal to rally around with Beanstack’s 2027 Winter Reading Challenge: Starry Nights and Reading Lights, sponsored by Lerner. Choose a minutes-logging or bingo template, celebrate progress with exclusive badges, and compete for prizes including author visits and books.

Find Your Reading Joy summer reading challenge banner

Make the Most of Summer

Keep students connected to reading during break and give library patrons of all ages a reason to join in. Create goals and activities that fit your community, make progress easy to track, and bring families together around a summer of reading.

Everything You Need to Bring a Challenge to Life

Make your next summer or winter reading challenge easier to run and more rewarding to join. Beanstack pairs ready-to-use seasonal materials with tools to invite readers, celebrate progress, and see the results.

Launch in minutes, not months. Our customizable templates include engaging artwork and ready-made themes so you can spend less time planning and more time celebrating readers.

Whether it’s families at home, students in classrooms, or neighbors in the library, our sponsored challenges transform reading into a collective experience. Friendly competition, shared milestones, and community pride keep everyone turning pages together.

Summer slide? Post-holiday slump? Not on our watch! Beanstack challenges keep reading front and center when habits are most likely to drop off—with seasonal themes, simple logging, and motivation that sticks.

Sponsored challenges don’t just benefit readers—they help you, too. Schools and libraries can win cash prizes and other rewards to boost budgets, expand programs, and fuel even more reading initiatives.

Summer Reading, Connected Across Communities

Charleston County School District and Charleston County Public Library brought their summer reading programs together with Beanstack, giving students one place to log. Together, they saw summer reading participation grow an average of 20% annually over four years.

Read the Case Study
A student reading a book in a big armchair, from the Charleston County case study

What Our Partners Say

“Our readers love the ease of logging minutes and books for our Beanstack challenges. We try to make the challenges more meaningful and impactful by incentivizing milestones, registrations, and program completions. … I love having registration incentives and mid-point prizes to encourage readers to keep reading and logging!”
Youth Services Librarian Daviess County Public Library, KY
“We love participating in this reading challenge and look forward to it every year. My students like to see our school on the leaderboard, and they compete with other classes to be in the top 3 on our campus.”
School Librarian Pasadena Independent School District, Texas
“The Winter Reading Challenges are a fun way to encourage our students to read. I turn the challenge into a competition among classes in each grade level. The teachers and students get involved, and you can sense the reading excitement in the school. It’s so much fun!”
School Librarian Broward County Schools, FL