This Summer we're going blog-wild to bring you great recommendations for Summer Reading. You can stray from the "Staff-chartered Course," of course, but these lists contain some excellent reads (and listens and watches).

This is the first set of Summer Reading recommendation posts. Check the Summer Reading Blog often or subscribe to the RSS feed for frequent updates.

Baby

• Summer Library Programs for Babies
• CDs Your Baby Will Love
• Great Outdoor Reads for You and Your Baby
• Recent Board Book Arrivals
• Weird Books About Weird Animals
• Sleepy-Time Reads
• The Best of Eric Carle
• Babies Read at the Library!
• Books For Your Baby's ABCs
• Morningtime Books
• Nursery Rhyme Books
• Counting Books

Listener

• Award Winners for Listeners
• New Books for Listeners
• Rainy Day Reads
• Bathtime Books
• Great Jim Gill Music
• Fishy Books
• More Great Outdoor Reads
• Story Hour Ideas

Reader

• Children's Books Turned Into Movies
• Books About Libraries
• Great Children's Book Kits
• New Children's Audiobooks
• Award-winning Children's Books
• Our Newest Joke Books

Tween

• Great Mysteries for Tweens
• More Rainy Day Reads
• Great Series for Tweens
• Water Books

Teen

• New Graphic Novels and Manga
• Teen Books Turned Into Movies
• What's New in Teen Nonfiction
• New Cookbooks
• Not-Boring Documentaries
• New Teen Audiobooks

Adult

• Fiction Books About Water
• Nonfiction Books About Water
• Movies About Water
• Fiction By Michigan Authors
• Mitten Staycations
• Movies in the Great Lakes State
• Voyages in Fiction
• Travel Books
• Travel Through Film