It's winter! While it is frosty outside, one can at least think warm thoughts by starting now to plan ahead for summer information literacy programs. This article is designed to provide some ideas for planning next summer's reading, sleuthing, and research programs. It features a variety of programs organized by academic librarians this past summer, often in collaboration with other partners. For many instruction librarians, summer presents an exciting time to work with special groups on campus and in the local K-12 community to teach information literacy and other critical thinking skills. The author presents ideas that are sure to warm academic librarians up this chilly winter.