Reading is fun and important!
Friday, May 16, 2025
 
My Book Day is designed to promote the idea that reading is fun as well as an important, life-long skill.
 
The Eden Prairie Noon Rotary funds this annual event in partnership with the Foundation for Eden Prairie Schools to promote the importance of reading.
 
My Book Day is a program which:
  • provides 650+ first graders in Eden Prairie with a book of their choice.
  • collaborates with the Eden Prairie school district staff to choose several books; each first grader then makes their choice and a few months later they receive their book on My Book Day.
My Book Day Annual Celebration
At the My Book Day event at Eden Prairie High School:
  • first graders from across the Eden Prairie School district are greeted curbside by the Eden Prairie High School Band and then gather in the Performing Arts Center.
  • High School students share the joy and benefits of reading and how reading enhances their participation in learning.
  • High School choirs, orchestra, and science students may present some experiments, or the robotics club may demonstrate a frisbee throwing robot that they designed, all to communicate that reading is foundational to learning.
  • every first grader in the EP school district is given a hard cover book (presented to them in their classroom).
Eden Prairie Noon Rotary is proud to partner with the following organizations for My Book Day:
Fun Fact: we celebrated the 20th anniversary of My Book Day in May, 2024.  In 20 years 12,000 books have been gifted throughout the Eden Prairie School District!
 
For more information contact Bill Hoeke