Thursday, May 25, 2017

Scholastic 2017 Reading BINGO

I'm taking a break from all the poetry posts (though I have a couple more I'm still mulling over!) to share one more 2017 reading challenge I found. I'm super late to the party here, but when I took a look at Scholastic's 2017 Reading BINGO, I knew it was too fun to pass up. I know I'm supposed to be limiting my challenges this year, but I'm failing pretty miserably at my Sherlock Holmes challenge, so I'm thinking I'll go ahead and replace it with this one :)

I heard about this challenge on the most recent episode of the Books Between Podcast. This is a recently discovered podcast I really love all about middle grade books. The host Corrina Allen presented this as a summer reading idea, but the challenge itself is actually running all year. The idea is to read children's and young adult books that fit the categories and fill in a row vertically, horizontally, or diagonally to get a BINGO. Of course, you can get more than one BINGO or even go for a full card which would be 49 books total. (And having worked in therapeutic recreation at a nursing home in the past, my brain can't help recalling all the other BINGO's one can get -- the letters T, H, L, X, large round robin, small round robin... OK, I'll stop now!)


I've been crossing off some squares with books I've already read since January, but there's still plenty of reading left to do (and I may have missed a few!) Picture books certainly work for this challenge (there's a Caldecott category and a bunch of the other award categories have picture book winners), but I'm trying not to rely on them too heavily. The only category I'm totally stumped on is A book about someone that is your age. Hmmm. Not sure what to do about that one exactly. Maybe I could read an adult book for that one? But then again, ages are not often stated after the teen years, so that could still be tough! I could flip my age and read a book with a 13 year old instead of a 31 year old? Or just call it a no-go? I'll have to see what I can come up with. Though I do wonder what the Scholastic folks are doing for this one, because the (adult) writer of the post is definitely participating!

Anyone want to join me?

Download the BINGO card PDF here!
More info about the challenge here!

7 comments:

  1. A podcast all about middle grade books?? Oh, my TBR is in so much trouble. This looks like fun! Hopefully they'll do it again in 2018, because I really don't think I should add any other challenges this year...

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    1. They definitely did it in 2016 -- so here's hoping it will continue next year too! I hear you on the no more challenges!

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    2. Oh and yes, podcasts are dangerous for the TBR! Though I will say I really love listening to this one for it's discussion topics and I like the book recs, but I tend to pick and choose. It hasn't been nearly so dangerous for my TBR as RAR!

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  2. This looks like a lot of fun! I didn't know about this. I will have to check it out.

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    1. It's a fun one! I have a few awards lists to study up on though I think :)

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  3. This looks to be such a fun challenge, Christine - and it's great that you're switching this challenge with one that wasn't fitting with your reading so much.

    Switching the numbers in your age around is a great idea for that specific slot I think. I know you're taking part in this yourself, not with your son, but maybe you could even read a book with a character his age. Would that be cheating I suppose?!

    I'm definitely going to keep this in mind to do with my son next year as a year long challenge... Summer wise, we usually sign up to the local reading library challenge which can be a lot of fun.

    Happy reading!

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    1. That's such a good idea about my son's age! No matter what, I think it's going to have to be fudged a bit if I want to complete that category. Since this post, I did remember that I read a YA historical fiction book earlier this year that had all the people's ages listed at the back -- so there were characters both 31 and 32 (my age after my summer birthday!) but they only featured very minorly in the book. I think the category was meant to be more of a main character -- but again, it's gonna be a stretch to fulfill that one!

      I think this would be an awesome challenge to do with your son since it can be all picture books -- I'm just trying to give myself a bit of an extra challenge to not rely on them too much :)

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I'd love to hear what you think :)