This year my kids are 14, 12, and 2.5, and I wanted to log their reading this summer but wasn’t finding printable ones online I liked. So I looked to bullet journals for inspiration and created this printable reading log, which you fill out by crossing off or highlighting each 5 minutes you read.
On this example above, I tried a few different ways of highlighting to make it ~*aesthetic*~: one color per book, alternating analogous colors, and cycling through the rainbow for each reading session. My favorite is what I started with—one color per book. You can still see how long each reading session is with a highlighter, and you don’t have to grab a different highlighter each time, just one per book.
This reading log is free for you to download! Just choose the download or print option from the PDF below. By downloading or printing, you are agreeing to not resell or share this resource as your own.
There are lots of really cute reading log coloring pages online, as well as bookmarks you can fill in.
Plenty of cute ones for sale on Etsy.
And these fun coloring ones from Everyday Reading—just enter your email to download.
If you’re wanting to build your vocabulary (or your child’s), check out my free vocabulary bookmarks!
Happy reading!
Lara Willard 
My darling! I love your newsletters! You always bring TANGIBLE VALUE with every single one! Newsflash, sissy loo! Are you ready??? I AM FINALLY COMING BACK TO HAMLINE IN PERSON THIS SUMMER FOR ALUMNI WEEKEND! It will only be my third time on campus–can you believe that? (Being a ‘pandemic grad’ kinda sucked, am I right?) I would love to see you! Are you coming? Also, I’ve developed an automated online writing class, and I’d love to include the link to your Hamilton blog post because it’s brilliant! Would you mind terribly? Let me know because it’s in the rough draft! HA! Thank you so much for these summer reading logs! Love you!
Daisy RainWriter – Speaker – Educator – AdvocatePromoting human rights education and literacy with teachers, writers and young people to make the world a kinder, better, safer place FOR ALL.
In Revisions:* Every Good Day (YA Contemporary Fiction)* Rose Drizzle (Early Reader Chapter Book)
In Development: * Rainy Dais Online Writing Class (Launches Fall 2025)* Rainy Dais Interactive Newsletter – Summer (Drops Friday, June 20th, 2025) What I’m reading now: * Stamped (For Kids) Racism, Antiracism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi MG NF (History and Activism) 2021 What I’m Writing now: * Aria (Working Title) by Daisy Rain Martin (YA Paranormal) Books I’ve consumed in 2025:* The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater (YA Nonfiction) 2017* The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly (MG Sci-Fi) 2004 * Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch by Codie Crowley (YA Mystery-Thriller-Paranormal) 2024 * The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (MG Sci-Fi) 2016 * When you Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller (MG Fantasy) 2020 * The Real Me by Minh Le/Raissa Figueroa (PB) 2023 * Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera (YA Fantasy/Romance) 2020 * How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith by Mariann Edgar Budde (Nonfiction/Inspirational) 2023 * Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (YA Dystopia) 2025 * Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Mel Valentine Vargas (MG/YA Realistic Fiction) Graphic Novel 2023 * The Trouble with Heroes by Kate Messner (MG Realistic Fiction) 2025
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Love, link to me ANYTIME! I don’t know about Hamline this summer…we are in CO and my husband is looking for jobs all over the country. Might move in two months, might not. Hard to say! We are very much in limbo. I’d love to see you though!