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January Reading Challenge for Kids 2027: 31 days, one tap a day
Read every day you can in January 2027: a book, or twenty minutes of one, colours in that day's square on a 31-day calendar. Twenty coloured days is the finish line; every day after that is a bonus.
The rules
What counts. On any day of January, finishing a book or reading (or being read to) for twenty minutes. One square a day: a second book the same day is still that day's square.
The finish. The twentieth coloured day earns the certificate. A missed day simply stays empty, and tomorrow is a fresh square.
Who it is for. Readers 5 to 18. Twenty minutes is about a picture book read twice, a few chapters, or one long sitting with a novel.
The tracker opens for logging on the first day. You can start it now, pick a reader and print the chart for the fridge.
How the tracker works
- Pick your animal. Brothers and sisters each pick their own, up to six on one device, and nobody types a name.
- Tap Log a book and tap the book: a Peabody story at your level, a book from one of Peabody's kids' lists, a book from a series, or, with a grown-up, a book from somewhere else.
- Watch the picture fill. Read on more than one day in a row and the dots show your streak.
- Print the chart or your log at any time. The certificate lights up at the finish line, and only there.
Everything is kept on this device. Nothing a child logs is sent anywhere: Peabody counts that a book was logged in this challenge, and nothing about the book or the reader.
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Running this with a class or a club? Print the class wall chart (thirty readers, ten squares each) for the classroom version; the leaders' page has the sign-up sheet and the class log. Need a book? What should I read next asks three questions.