Celebrate Smokey’s 80th Birthday by joining the Smokey Bear Reading Challenge! This challenge can be used to engage youth in reading about wildfire prevention and forests, as well as natural resource careers, all while they explore their local environment. The challenge is also meant to complement the 2024 Collaborative Summer Reading Program theme of Adventure Begins at Your Library.
Join the celebration by visiting the Summer Reading LibGuide. You will find a fantastic toolkit containing everything libraries need to promote the Smokey Bear Reading Challenge and engage their communities. Download reading lists, printable reading logs, and promotional items, and check out a list of Smokey-approved titles about adventure and the great outdoors available from the NYS Talking Book and Braille Library.