[OPLINLIST] 2025 Choose to Read Ohio booklist & toolkits

[jdwyer at library.ohio.gov]

Cross-posted. Please excuse duplication.

[cid:image002.jpg at 01DB6CAA.7D9CF4C0]The 2025 Choose to Read Ohio<https://library.ohio.gov/ctro> program cycle officially kicks off this month with the release of readers' toolkits for the 2025 CTRO booklist<https://library.ohio.gov/libraries/library-programs-and-development/ctro/booklist>, which features 20 notable titles for all ages and reading levels. As with each CTRO program cycle, the booklist includes five books each for young children, middle grades, teens, and adults, and encompasses fiction and nonfiction and a variety of geographic and cultural interests. Ohio librarians, teachers, and other book experts help to select the CTRO booklists. They consider quality and reader appeal, but also how well each book lends itself to group discussion, caregiver/child conversations, library programs, and classroom activities.

To support and encourage book discussion groups, library programs, and other activities to bring readers together around books, the CTRO Advisory Council creates a readers' toolkit for each CTRO book. CTRO toolkits feature author biographies, discussion questions, activities, and resources to engage curiosity and explore themes in depth. Toolkits for all 155 books selected to CTRO since its inception in 2009 are available for free download on the CTRO website. Starting with the 2025 CTRO booklist, toolkits are being published as webpages instead of PDFs for accessibility and findability.

Download and print the 2025 CTRO booklist<https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/v1731693059/library.ohio.gov/ctro-files/2025/CTRO_2025_booklist_flyer.pdf>.

A poster featuring the 2025 CTRO books has been sent to each Ohio public library. Posters for branches went to the main library/admin office. Contact me if your library system didn't receive poster(s).

Choose to Read Ohio spotlights Ohio authors and illustrators and promotes reading across Ohio. Started in 2009 by the State Library of Ohio and the Ohioana Library with the Ohio Center for the Book and Ohio's libraries, CTRO celebrates the bounty and diversity of published literature by Ohioans and invites Ohioans of all ages to read and enjoy books together.


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Janet Ingraham Dwyer
Youth Services Library Consultant
Library Programs & Development
State Library of Ohio
274 E. 1st Avenue
Columbus, OH 43201
614.644.6910
jdwyer at library.ohio.gov<mailto:jdwyer at library.ohio.gov>
library.ohio.gov<https://library.ohio.gov/>

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