Grand Prairie Public Library launches 2025 “Color Our World” Summer Reading Club; switches to Beanstack app

Grand Prairie Public Library hosted a kickoff event at its main library to launch the 2025 Summer Reading Club, “Color Our World,” drawing what the event described as hundreds of children, teens and adults and showcasing activities, mobile library services and a new digital reading log system.

The summer program aims to keep readers of all ages engaged while school is out and to provide free community programming. Organizers said the event included face painting, crafts, a sticker station, community art projects, bubble science, chalk art and a playground area geared toward families.

A library staff member said the library is replacing paper reading logs with the Beanstack app for 2025. “This year, instead of paper logs, you're going to download our Beanstack app,” the staff member said. Library users are instructed to select the Grand Prairie Public Library system in the app, create one account for a household and add multiple readers. For every five hours of logged reading, participants will earn a badge. The program includes categories for children, teens and adults.

The kickoff also offered tours of one of the city’s new mobile libraries, which staff described as a way to make checking out materials “on the go” easier for residents. The transcript notes the mobile libraries were available for public viewing at the event but does not specify how many vehicles the city has or their scheduled routes.

Library officials said the renovation of the main entrance at the main library is in its final stages and will be reopened to the public in June; a specific reopening date was not specified in the event transcript. For more information, the announcement directed residents to gptx.org/library and the library’s summer reading pages.

Details such as the precise reopening date for the entrance renovation and the number and schedules of the mobile libraries were not specified during the recorded remarks.