When you walk away... The Doodles come out and play!
Your summer reading theme, walking the stacks.
School libraries and public libraries both run it. One person can run the whole parade. Optional for every other staff member.
Get the parade guidein libraries
It pretty much runs itself.
One person can run the whole parade. Everyone else just gets to enjoy it. Turnkey for whoever says yes. Optional for everyone else.
The library adopts Doodles
Children's room, circ desk, bookmobile: each can name a Doodle and color it to life.
Drop-in, not class-vs-class
Collective goals, a Doodle Passport come-back loop, and whole-library reveals instead of judging.
Programs that bring them back
Read-to-the-Doodle, book tastings, and branch-to-branch Story Swapping.
300+ ready to run
Activities
Metrics a library already reports.
We built the parade on decades of research about how kids actually change: play, art, belonging. Here are the studies, mapped to every activity. Pairs with the SEL program and PBIS you already run.
Door counts
A parade is weeks of reasons to walk in, not a one-night program.
Program attendance
Drop-in translation of the weekly challenge, sized for whoever shows up.
Circ and come-backs
The Doodle Passport is a return loop that brings the same families back week after week.
See the full research base · Meet the family behind the parade
Make the case
The guide email includes a Friends of the Library pitch sheet, with the sponsor-first money answer.
- Friends groups send this page as the ask.
- School librarians can run it as the building-wide challenge without adding judging duties.
- Doodles can skin to each year's CSLP theme.
When libraries usually start
Summer reading, March reading month, and the February doldrums. Doodles can wear the year's summer reading theme.
Many parades cost the school nothing: a local sponsor covers it, and we help you find one. Get it sponsored · Ordering
Get the library parade guide
A concierge, not a sales call: a friendly human who helps you plan it, find a sponsor, and get it approved. No hard sell, ever.