ANDREW LEIBENGUTH/TIMES NEWS Tamaqua Head Start Child Development, located in the Saint Peter's & Paul's Church in Tamaqua promoted reading with the theme "Bananas for Reading." Volunteers from the Tamaqua Public Library also stopped and read books to the children. The library also gave every child a free book in a packet with a pencil, bookmark, sticker and literature for parents/caregivers on how to encourage a love of reading. The free books are copies from four different years of PA One Book, Every Young Child programs held had at the library, which were sponsored by the Tamaqua Lions Club. Holding up their monkeys as part of the Child Development's Bananas for Reading program are, from front left, Darian Revell, Julian Baez, Makenna Ellington and Lorilei Snyder. From back left are Destiny Steinmetz, Shawn Chen, Alyssa Leary, Trea Myers and Destiny Boyer. Children are from Gloria Hollenbach's and Missy Perchansy's Head Start II and IV class.