Reuben and Joan LaFountain of Newport received a special travel gift at the Summer Reading Grand Finale. They visited 55 libraries in New Hampshire this summer as part of the Reading Road Trip: USA summer reading program. (picture and caption courtesy of Andrea Thorpe, Director, Richards Free Library, Newport)

The theme of the 2007 N.H. Summer Reading was Reading Road Trip: USA. Libraries around the state celebrated transportation, travel and the United States by offering an array of programs and activities. One program invited children and their families to visit other libraries in the state, where they received a sticker or a stamp on a map provided by their home library. More than 85 libraries participated in this statewide activity. Each year, over 15,000 children participate in the N.H. Summer Reading Program, which is developed by the Children's Librarians of New Hampshire (CHILIS), a section of the New Hampshire Library Association.