Start off your new year with our annual chilly-weather reading challenge!
Set your own reading goal and log your minutes between January 20 – February 28 for your chance to win great prizes.
Winter Reading 2026 Challenge Levels:
Choose a challenge based on your age:
Kids (0-11 years)
Adult & Teen (12+ years)
Early Registration Prizes:
Sign up between January 12-20
for a chance to win one of our early registration prizes!
Kids (0-5 years) Squishmallow
Kids (6-11 years) Squishmallow
Teen (12-18 years) $25 Gift Card to Penguin Book Shop
Adult (18+) $25 Gift Card to Penguin Book Shop
Weekly Prizes for Kids:
NEW! When you read at least 60 minutes each week, you will earn a weekly badge. Stop by the Children’s Department to select a prize from our Winter Prize Basket.
New items will be added weekly!
We’ll also have weekly prize drawings to keep your little ones motivated throughout the season. Check in the Children’s Department to see what’s up for grabs each week!
Completion Prize for Teens & Adults
Teens & Adults that complete the Winter Reading challenge by unlocking every badge will earn a custom winter reading mug! Available while supplies last.
Grand Prizes:
Kids (0-5 years) $25 Gift Card to Penguin Book Shop & Squishmallow
Kids (6-11 years) $25 Gift Card to Penguin Book Shop & Squishmallow
Teen (12+ years) $50 Gift Card to Penguin Book Shop
Adult (18+) $50 Gift Card to Penguin Book Shop
Logging:
Once you’ve signed up, log your entries online by entering the minutes you read each day between January 20 – February 28. You can read anything whether it’s your favorite book, a blog, a magazine or newspaper, an audiobook, reading to your siblings or with your family! Remember, it’s the minutes that count for this competition. The more you read, the more chances you have to win.
Use the handy Beanstack App to track reading sessions, earn milestone badges, and access your account details. You can even use the app to manage your family’s accounts all in one place & log reading sessions for all readers at one time.
Don’t have the app? Log reads through the Beanstack website.
Want to get to the logging page quicker? Bookmark the Beanstack website: https://sewickleylibrary.beanstack.org in your browser or use the button below.
Download the mobile app, Beanstack, through your app store!
Questions? Visit our Reading Program FAQ page.
SPL Reading Programs are generously underwritten by the Friends of the Sewickley Public Library.
