Winter Reading Book BINGO!
2025–26 Winter Reading Bingo! December 1–February 27
Sign up on Beanstack beginning December 1.
Choose one of six challenges. You can read books aimed at any age group.
One BINGO earns a completion prize. Every BINGO earns tickets for the prize drawings. The more BINGOs you complete, the more tickets you earn.
Use one of our sticker sheets. Stop by either of our service desks and pick up a sticker sheet that corresponds with your challenge. Use them with a blank BINGO card and place them on any blank space to work toward your BINGOs.
Ages 0–5 Booklist | Ages 0–5 Sticker Sheet
Monarch Booklist | Monarch Sticker Sheet
Bluestem Booklist | Bluestem Sticker Sheet
Caudill Booklist | Caudill Sticker Sheet
2025 Adult Reading Challenge
January–December 2026
Register for the 2026 Adult Reading Challenge and receive magnetic bookmarks (coming mid-January) and a reading notebook (while supplies last)! Every month, read a book on that month's theme, log it in Beanstack, and earn a themed sticker (pick up at the front desk or via our Curb-It service) and an entry into that month's drawing for a gift card to a local business! Participate nine months out of the year, and you are eligible for entry into the grand prize drawing. Use our 2026 Adult Reading Challenge sticker sheet to display your stickers. Pick yours up at the front desk or download and print today.
Readers are also encouraged to sign up for a monthly newsletter with suggestions for that month's theme. Select the Year-Round Adult Reading Challenge on our NextReads sign-up page to get the newsletter or view the current issue.
For readers 18 and older.
This challenge is supported by the Normal Public Library Foundation.
Monthly Themes
January: Read a book that was adapted into a movie or TV show.
February: Read a love story.
March: Read a book about an inspirational woman.
April: Read a wilderness survival book.
May: Read a book by a Jewish author.
June: Read a book set in a small town.
July: Read a book about friendship.
August: Read a book found on the Recommended Reads page of the Normal Public Library website.
September: Read a book about immigrants or refugees.
October: Read a dark academia book.
November: Read a book by an author who was born after 1997.
December: Read a book set in or about somewhere you would like to visit.
1,000 Books Before Kindergarten
1,000 Books Before Kindergarten is an education initiative with three main goals: to promote early childhood literacy, to prepare young children for kindergarten, and to facilitate family bonding through reading.
Parents and caregivers may register any child between the ages of 0–6. Any book may be counted, and books may be repeated. Repetition is even encouraged as it increases both comprehension and confidence in young children. Keep track on your paper log or in Beanstack. Prizes can be selected by filling out this form or by stopping by the Children's Desk on the 2nd floor.
All children who have not entered kindergarten or the equivalent are eligible to register. Participants are not required to be Normal Public Library cardholders or residents of Normal. Participants are welcome to register for this program even if they are completing other area 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten programs.
2025 Summer Reading Challenge
2025 Summer Reading Challenge has ended!
Continue to track your reading on Beanstack and keep an eye out for our next reading challenge.
Track Your Reading with Beanstack
Beanstack is our website and app for tracking your reading anytime and for our library reading challenges.
You can create an account in Beanstack anytime and use it to keep track of your reading. When a reading challenge becomes available for you, keep tracking your reading and it will count for your challenge!
Use Beanstack on any computer or find the Beanstack Tracker app on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. If you have already created an account on Beanstack online you can use that. New readers will need to register.
If your child is already signed up for 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten then you have a Beanstack login!
Your email address
Password: beanstack
Once you login, you may change it to something more personal.
Members of a family can all be on the same account, just change readers using the top-left menu (on both the website and app).
Use Beanstack anytime! Keep track of your reading year-round and join our challenges when they are available.