2025 Summer Reading Challenge at LTPL!
We are so excited for this year's summer reading theme, "Color Our World"! We invite you all to embark on a journey of art and creativity to celebrate the ways in which art enriches our lives. This summer we will have many programs where you can let your creativity shine!
  • Log your reading, complete missions, and attend library events to earn points for rewards! 
  • Registration opens on Sunday, June 1 and the challenge continues through Friday, August 15.
  • To participate, register your family members in READsquared, where you will be able to track your reading, events, and activities for points. Sign-up HERE.
  • Beginning on July 1, you can choose rewards for every 250 points that you earn!
  • Earn rewards at 500, 750, and 1,000 points.
Thank You To Our Summer Reading Sponsors!
A Huge Thank You to Vibe Credit Union, Benito's South Lyon, New Hudson Biggby Coffee, New Hudson McDonald's, and the LTPL Friends of the Library for lending their support to our Summer Reading Challenge!
 
When children reach 500 points, they will automatically be awarded a
Free Happy Meal Coupon! 
When you reach 750 points, you will automatically receive a
Free Benito's Small Cheese Pizza or Salad Voucher!
When you reach 1,000 points, you automatically earn a
Free Summer Reading Champion T-shirt or an LTPL mug! 
 
Get Ready for our Summer Reading Kickoff
Celebration Event!
Saturday, June 14, 1-4pm
  • Come celebrate the end of the school year and the beginning of our Summer Reading Challenge! We'll have cornhole, inflatable mini curling, giant Jenga, giant Connect 4, giant Yardzee, giant checkers, giant Battleship, quad-shot basketball, crafts, button making, snacks, and a lemonade bar from Biggby! Get the whole family registered for our Summer Reading Challenge on READsquared and have some fun at the library!
  • Please consider carpooling with friends and neighbors, as we have a very small parking lot.
  • Please register here so that we have enough refreshments. Stop by anytime between 1-4pm!
 
Introducing "With Love"
Connect Through Letters with "With Love" - Now Available at Our Library!
We're excited to announce a special new offering at Lyon Township Public Library!
With Love is now available to all our patrons, completely free of charge.
 
What is With Love?
With Love is a living animated show where you express yourself through creatively writing to a cast of characters. Set in the whimsical world of Notification Central, you'll join GoodGood (your caffeine-loving mailman friend) and his pals on their mission to keep digital connections real in a world going robotic. Every letter you write shapes the story!
 
A Meaningful Digital Experience
Unlike typical screen time, With Love encourages authentic communication and creativity. As you exchange letters with animated pen pals, you'll develop writing skills naturally while building relationships with characters who remember your conversations and respond thoughtfully.
 
Your Digital Pen Pals
Get daily letters from characters who actually remember what you tell them.
Share your thoughts in a safe, private space where you can truly be yourself.
 
Express Yourself
Turn your thoughts into creative letters with gentle guidance.
Get inspired by weekly writing prompts that spark your imagination
 
Letters with Heart
Receive personalized messages that show your words matter.
Look forward to meaningful mail from characters who care.
Experience a story that changes based on your choices
 
How to Get Started
Visit this link: https://www.withlove.org/library/ltpl
 Click “Join Now” button
Create your account
Begin your letter-writing adventure!
 
Write a letter on "With Love" as a Summer Reading mission!
This will earn points towards your summer reading goal!
 
 
 
Colorful Picture Books!
Each believing that their hue is the best, the three primary colors live in separate parts of the city until Yellow and Blue meet, fall in love, and decide to mix.
All is quiet in the deep blue sea, until a tiny pink fish is mistaken for something scary. Suddenly, tales bursts forth about a "great big fish hiding in the deep!" Readers discover a color each time a new fish becomes entangled in the mayhem and hysterics. The red octopus was really rattled, which petrified the purple puffer fish, and startled the blue shoal, until they all flee...into a deep, dark cave. Uh-oh! That's no cave at all!
Harpreet Singh has a different color for every mood and occasion, from pink for dancing to bhangra beats to red for courage. He especially takes care with his patka--his turban--smoothing it out and making sure it always matches his outfit. But when Harpreet's mom finds a new job in a snowy city and they have to move, all he wants is to be invisible. Will he ever feel a happy sunny yellow again?
 
Keep Your Brain Active this Summer with Discovery Kits!
      
     
         
Count and Color
Choo Choo
 Ages 2+. All aboard the learning express! Build number, shape and color recognition skills with this fun interactive train set featuring rolling wheels and an easy-to-grab size that's perfect for little hands. Kids can sort the blocks by shape and color, count the total number found in the train, and build fine motor skills while loading the blocks back into the right train cars. They can also use the blocks as construction toys, stacking and building with them during free-play imaginative adventures.
 
Bristle Shape 3D Building Blocks
Ages 3+. Bristle 3D Blocks are perfect for building fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, while stimulating curious minds. They are crafted with soft, rubbery 'bristles', allowing children to easily connect pieces together at any angle. This brightly colored 120-piece set provides endless building possibilities to fuel kids' imaginations and creative juices. It also includes 12 rolling wheels that add motion to objects--build an airplane, car, dump trucks, robot and other creations!
Write & Wipe
Tracing Letters
 Ages 3+. Children can practice writing with these colorful, oversized uppercase and lowercase letters. Trace on the dotted line with a dry-erase marker, then wipe clean to practice again!
Upcoming Events in June
Storytime
Thursdays, 10:30-11:15am
 
Young Writer's Club
Monday, June 9, 6:00-7:00pm
Forest Friends
Tuesday, June 17, 2:00pm [FULL] or 3:30pm
If a session if full, join the waitlist!
Meet a Therapy Dog
Wednesday, June 18, 10:30am-12:00pm
**Registration is required, but drop in any time between 10:30am and 12:00pm**
 
Art with a Twist
with Sloan-Longway
Monday, June 23
2:00pm or 4:00pm for ages 8-12
 6:00pm for ages 12-18
 
Stay and Play
Wednesday, June 25, 10:00-11:30am
 
Paws For Reading
Wednesday, June 25, 5:30-7:00pm
**Register for a 15-minute timeslot**
 
Stuffed Animal Sleepover
Thursday, June 26, 6:00-6:45pm
 
Cellophane Shadows
with Sloan-Longway
Saturday, June 28, 11:00am, 1:00pm, or 3:00pm
 
Lego Fun 
Monday, June 20, 2:00pm or 6:00pm
June Take-and-Make Craft Kits
Color Your World
Pickup begins Tuesday, June 17
Lacing Bird Nest
Pickup begins Tuesday, June 24
 
June is Audiobook Month: Find Children's Audiobooks on Hoopla
New Movies at LTPL!
  
 
 
Sign Up for TALK
TALK
  • TALK sends 2-3 text messages with fun activity suggestions each week that parents and caregivers with children 5 and under can do to build school readiness skills.
  • TALK, developed by librarians and based on the Every Child Ready to Read program, encourages parents to Read, Write, Sing, Talk, and Play with their little ones daily.
  • With TALK you’ll also get occasional text notifications for library storytimes and other free youth events!

Lyon Township Public Library
27005 Milford Rd.
South Lyon, Michigan 48178
(248) 437-8800

https://lyon.lib.mi.us/