Beginning Saturday, June 20, play, learn, and explore with the library for a summer full of fun!
Visit Beanstack to track your reading.
This summer, our goal is to read 1,000,000 minutes! Our new online reading site, Beanstack, is a fun way to track the minutes you read and help us reach that goal. You can also use Beanstack to mark off challenges you’ve completed to earn six new, limited edition Summer Quest badges! Exploring Beanstack pays off too – you may even find ways to earn secret badges! We have developed great Beanstack reading challenges for children, teens, and adults.
What is Beanstack?
Beanstack is an easy-to-use, online program that will help you track minutes read, earn badges, and write book reviews! You’ll also be able to check out the schedule of upcoming performances. Readers of all ages can use Beanstack. Visit the Summer Quest Challenges here: buckscounty.beanstack.org/
You will need to create a Beanstack account to access the challenges. You will be asked for your name, email, preferred branch and library card or e-card number. Once an account is created you can add additional reader accounts for other family members wishing to participate. If you do not have a library card, you can apply online.
If you are a patron of a district member library, please check their website for information on Beanstack. On our locations page, scroll down to view the list of district member libraries; the library’s image will bring you to their website.
The Beanstack Tracker app is also available on iOS and Android.
Badges
As in past years, kids, teens, and adults can earn badges by completing challenges that encourage users to Explore, Write, and Create.
This year, you can complete these challenges entirely at home! You can complete certain challenges using easy-to-grab activity bags that we invite you to pick up at any of our branches once we begin Curbside Pickup and while supplies last. When Curbside Pickup starts on June 22, you can pull up to a designated curbside parking spot and call the library to request an activity bag. These activities are for a variety of ages. Parents may need to help their children complete activities.
Once you’ve earned a badge, we’ll give you a cloth patch, which you can pick up in your branch or through curbside pickup.
Our 2020 badges are: Bona Fide Fan, Once Upon a Time, Schooner or Later, Standing Ovation, and Wandering Wordsmith, Wondrous Wilderness. Can you earn them all?
Badge Contest
Help us design a new Badge Squad badge! Our new badge will be focusing on diversity, and will have challenges designed to help kids make the world a better place. Download the PDF below, draw your badge design, list your ideas for challenges, and let us know what you think we should call it. This contest is open to children 0-18. All entries are due by Saturday, August 15, 2020. Please follow directions on the PDF to submit your design.
Performers
This year we will have a wide spectrum of weekly entertainers who will perform virtually. Our audience will be able to watch as we host live performances from Ran’D Shine, Mad Science, Dinoman, a BMX bike show, and more. A full schedule of events will be posted on our website, Beanstack, and social media.
There will be a Summer Quest Kick Off performance by Magician Ari Paul Felber on Saturday, June 20, at 10am.
All programs will be broadcast live at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays, with the exception of our end-of-summer performance, the Trinidad Steel Drum Band, who will perform on Saturday, August 1, at 3:30 PM. Please check our calendar for links to the events.
Quick Bite Videos
New this year! Your favorite Children’s Services staff members will be offering live Quick Bite Videos. Some of these will tie into badge challenges, whereas others will run the gamut from hula hoop tricks, to sign language tips, to origami ideas, and more. Videos will be posted on our Facebook page: facebook.com/pg/bucksctylib/videos
Storytime at Home
Bona Fide Fan - Baby Shark
Bona Fide Fan - Pete The Cat
Once Upon a Time - Fairies, Gnomes and Unicorns
Once Upon a Time - Fairy Tales For Everyone
Schooner or Later - Boats & Ships
Schooner or Later - Ocean
Standing Ovation - Talent
Standing Ovation - Talent
Wandering Wordsmith - Letter Writing
Wandering Wordsmith - Rhyming
Wondrous Wilderness - Animal Sounds
Wondrous Wilderness - Camping
Share what you’re reading on social media by tagging #BucksBadgeQuest. Find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as BucksCtyLib.
It’s Badge Rewind time here at BCFL. If you missed any or all of our Summer Quest Activity Bags, visit your branch or use Curbside Pickup to pick them up! We’ll have Activity Bags available until August 15.
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We get it. You're so busy reading and earning badges that you haven't had time to record your reading minutes, log your badge activities, or write reviews. Well, good news! We're keeping Beanstack open until August 15 to let you do that. And if you missed any or all of our Activity Bags, don't fret! You can pick up Activity Bags for our six Summer Quest badges until August 15 -- just visit your branch or use Curbside Pickup to get your bags. As of today, we've read 324,054 minutes, earned 674 badges, and written 392 reviews!
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Thank you to our Summer Quest sponsors -- our program wouldn't be possible without your support! Summer Quest 2020 is made possible, in part, through the Pennsylvania Educational Tax Credit Program (EITC) and the following donors: Covenant Bank, Fred Beans Family of Dealerships, Friends of the Yardley-Makefield Library, Friends of the Doylestown Library, C&N, J.P. Mascaro and Sons, Waste Management, and Weis Markets.
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If you've always dreamed of breaking some records, this week's Summer Quest Badge Activity Bag -- Standing Ovation -- is for you! And if you missed any of our previous Activity Bags, let us know. We have additional copies and will be distributing them until August 15. Pick up your Activity Bags by visiting your branch or using Curbside Pickup!
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It’s hot out there, #buckscounty — the perfect time to find a cool water source like the water feature in The Backyard at our Doylestown branch or a pond or lake at your favorite park. And dive into this week’s Activity Bag featuring a craft for an underwater creature that can help you earn your Schooner or Later Summer Quest badge! Stay cool! 💦
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Enter our Summer Quest Badge Contest! This year's contest is focused on diversity and making the world a better place. Design your badge and submit it by August 15. Entry form and details on our Summer Quest page: buckslib.org/summerquest.
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Did you know you can write reviews of the books you're reading for Summer Quest? So far, Summer Quest participants have written 192 book reviews, read more than 217,500 minutes, and earned 540 Summer Quest badges! Don't forget to log your reading minutes and badge activities in Beanstack. And while you're at it, why not let other readers know what you've thought of books you've been reading this summer.
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With the fun in this week’s Activity Bag, kids will be one step closer to earning their Wandering Wordsmith badge. Pick one up by visiting your branch or use our Curbside Pickup service.
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Summer Quest 2020 is made possible, in part, through the Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program and the following donors:
Contact Michelle Wexler, Development Director, to learn how your business can partner with BCFL to make a meaningful impact on the Bucks County community.
