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FOR SOME years now Leicestershire Libraries and Information Service has organised a programme of children's summer activities—very varied activities such as storytelling in parks, special events in libraries and a ‘Magic Bus’. The aim of all these has been to encourage library use, to introduce specific titles to whet children's appetite for books and reading by means of a carefully structured programme of storytelling sessions and reading aloud, fun and games, craft sessions, drama, and competitions. Most libraries do something like this but does it actively lead to more reading—reading for enjoyment, stimulation and emotional satisfaction rather than for information related to school work and increased functional literacy? Comments received from teachers, parents and librarians showed that through the Reading Tree, children did read more for pleasure.