Achieve Your Goals with Reading Challenges
Zoobean helps educators, librarians, and families read more by creating, promoting, participating in, and gaining insights from reading challenges.
Something for Everyone
Whoever you are, whatever you do, we’ve got a product with your name on it. Choose the path that fits you and we’ll help you keep reading.
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Beanstack for Libraries
Get higher levels of participation, and the data to prove it, for popular library programs including summer reading, winter reading, and 1KBBK.
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Badge Books
Our Badge Books are high-quality reading logs and sticker books that unite with the online experience to better engage young readers, all year long.
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Beanstack for School Districts
Customize district-wide and school-based reading challenges that motivate students to read by choice and build your school’s culture of reading.
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Beanbright
Our free Beanbright product for classrooms and school buildings provides ready-made reading challenges and data-driven insights.
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Badge Books
Our Badge Books are high-quality reading logs and sticker books that unite with the online experience to better engage young readers, all year long.
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Beanstack Go
For readers whose library or school does not use Beanstack or Beanbright, sign up on the Beanstack mobile app through our Beanstack Go option. You can track your reading and participate in ongoing challenges.
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Badge Books
Badge Books are reading companions sent by mail to your child. As your family tracks reading in the app, your young reader unlocks virtual badges that reveal where to place stickers in the book.
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Hourglass
Our Hourglass is a prospective smart night light for families that would connect with our mobile app to make it easier for kids to track reading at home.
Over one thousand organizations worldwide use Beanstack to make reading smarter.
Client Spotlight Webinars
We regularly co-host webinars with Beanstack clients during which they share best practices.
Flint Memorial Library
Danielle Masterson, Head of Youth Services at Flint Memorial Library in Massachusetts launched her first summer reading challenge using Beanstack in 2019. Danielle focused on direct promotion of reading challenges before they began, in the heat of the challenges, and after the challenges ended. She also shared more around building on the success of those reading challenges with a PowerBlock challenge for teens.
Cedar Rapids Public Library
Kevin Delecki, Programming Manager at Cedar Rapids Public Library in Iowa, shared how using Beanstack has been a “life changing experience”. CRPL goes beyond summer reading with three special reading challenges: “Growing Readers”, a prenatal reading challenge for new moms, “Ready 10 Kinder Skills” challenge, and “Stay at Home & Read” fundraising challenge. Kevin shared how these challenges, along with the library’s successful summer reading challenge, are easy to set up, engage the community, and increase use throughout the year.
Atlanta Public Schools
Atlanta Public Schools dream team, Patrice Laird-Walker (Media Services Coordinator), Jennifer Saunders (Media Specialist At-Large), Rosalyn Washington (Digital Learning Specialist of Literacy), and Aleigha Henderson-Rosser (Executive Director, Department of Instructional Technology) share how they created, promoted, and gained overwhelming buy-in for a district reading challenge, Race2Read. We learned what went into their secret sauce that had students, teachers, and administrators abuzz about reading and establishing cultures of reading in their school buildings and beyond!
