‘R’ is for ‘Reading’ by the ‘River’ …

Library youth services director Stacey Leerhoff reads some books to children during an outdoor reading picnic — known as “Read and Feed” — on blankets Thursday in some shade behind the Charles City Public Library, in view of the Cedar River. It’s all part of the library’s summer reading program. (Press photo James Grob.)

Library youth services director Stacey Leerhoff reads some books to children during an outdoor reading picnic — known as “Read and Feed” — on blankets Thursday in some shade behind the Charles City Public Library, in view of the Cedar River. It’s all part of the library’s summer reading program. (Press photo James Grob.)