OXFORD – The Oxford Memorial Library is geared up and ready to go for its annual Summer Reading Program.

Although the program is already underway with the first presentation last night, there’s still plenty of time for all avid young readers to to sign up, said Youth Services Coordinator Kristina Clark.

“Our program this summer is going to focus on the theme of ‘Dream Big and Read,’” she said, explaining that each week will explore a different variation on the theme such as dreams, wishes, space and the sky (because the sky’s the limit) with a story and crafts or activities.

For example, the program kicked off last night with a presentation about fairy tales. Afterwards, the children received paint stirrers to decorate in any creative way they chose, turning simple wooden sticks into colorful pieces unique to each child’s imagination.

Clark collected the each piece at the end of the evening and will use them to construct a “wishing well” in which the children will deposit their reading logs each week.

The reading logs will measure either how many books each child has completed or how many total minutes of time were spent on a book each day for group projects.

There will be three programs each week focusing on different aspects of the program.

Beginning at 2:30 p.m. each Tuesday, children ages 5-10 will have a chance to experiment with many new and exciting crafts each week ranging from sidewalk chalk to tie-dye to rock-painting.

“The children will have a lot of freedom to choose what kind of crafts they want to try,” said Clark. “They can do team projects or competitions ... and everything they create they’ll get to take home, minus the sidewalk art, of course!”