Upcoming Events

AUG. 4—BIRTHDAY

PARTY FOR SMOKEY THE

BEAR (6:30 PM)

AUG. 12—DROP-IN

TECH HELP (1:30—5:30

PM)

AUG. 14—MYSTERY

BOOK CLUB (6:45 PM)

AUG. 20—JUNE’S TOUR

OF SCOTLAND (6:30 PM)

AUG. 21—FAMILY

MOVIE & DESSERT NIGHT

(6:00 PM)

AUG. 23—LAST DAY

TO TURN IN SUMMER

READING ENTRIES!

END OF SUMMER

CELEBRATION (4:30 PM)

AUGUST STORYTIMES 2

BOOKMARK CONTEST WINNERS

2

FEATURED CHILDREN’S BOOK

2

MYSTERY BOOK CLUB 3

FRIENDS GOLF OUTING 3

JUNE’S TOUR OF SCOTLAND

3

AT THE LIBRARY IN JULY

4

Inside this issue:

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Prairie Reader

Children in grades 3-5 are invited to the li-brary for our summer Winning Wednesdays.

Circuits August 6, 1:00 p.m. Explore snap circuits with Bonnie

Pearson of The Learning Shop.

Cupcake Wars August 13, 1:00 p.m. Use the supplies provided to

come up with your own unique

cupcake designs.

Weaving August 20, 1:00 p.m. Try out different weaving pro-

jects including Rainbow Looms

and dream catchers.

Grossology 101 August 27, 1:00 p.m. Try some amazingly gross ac-

tivities, learn some yucky trivia

and have treats that look

revolting (but taste delicious)!

Winning Wednesdays

Teen Events Mad Science

Tuesday, August 5, 6:30 p.m. Make silly putty and more using household products. Please wear old clothes!

Got Tape?

Tuesday, August 12, 6:30 p.m. It’s time to get sticky with duct tape!

Teen Movie Night: Divergent Friday, August 15, 6:00 p.m. We’re showing Divergent, one of this spring’s teen blockbusters, newly released on DVD. Movie is rated PG-13 and will go until 8:30 p.m. No registration is re-quired unless you wish to stay for Late Night.

Teen Library Late Night Friday, August 15, 7:45 p.m.—10:00 p.m. Enjoy games, ice cream sundaes and more after the library closes! Registration required by August 13.

Family Movie & Dessert Thursday, August 21 6:00 p.m. Don’t miss the final Family Movie & Dessert Night! This month watch Muppets Most Wanted and enjoy a spe-cial dessert. Contact Beth at 643-8318 with ques-tions.

Birthday Celebration! Monday, August 4, 6:30 p.m.

Smokey the Bear is turning 70

and we’re throwing a birthday

celebration! Smokey will be here

so join him for cake, stories,

games and prizes!

Wednesday, August 6, 10:00-11:30 a.m. Held outside in the green

space across the street from

the library. Rain location:

library community room.

Drop-in and work with a

couple artists who will help

you with fun art projects!

Thank you to Culver’s for

sponsoring this event!

Art Cart

Thursday, August 28, 4:30 p.m. This summer, as a prize alternative, summer readers were invited to “give back” to the community. Soaring Eagle Wildlife Rehabili-tation was one of the chosen organizations. Join us as we present the Bethkes with mon-ey readers raised and see their LIVE owls! Special thanks to Ballweg Family of Dealer-ships for making this endeavor possible!

Give Back Celebration

Enjoy storytimes held in the library’s

community room! Traditional storytimes

will be held Tuesdays, Thursdays and

Fridays at 10:00 a.m. Beth will share

stories, snacks, music and more with

your child. Musical storytimes (extra

songs, no craft or snack) will return in

the fall.

It is a S.T.E.M. summer! (Science, Tech-

nology (Tools), Engineering, Math).

Don’t miss Discovery Time 10:30 a.m.—

11:30 a.m. the last week of each month!

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Fridays at 8:15 a.m. Bouncing Babies is a storytime for infants through age 24 months. Beth will share songs, fingerplays and stories. This is a great way to bond with your baby, meet other kids at the same stages, learn valu-able pre-reading activities, develop life-long learners and socialize with other parents and caregiv-ers at the same time!

NO Bouncing Babies August 15

Bouncing Babies August Storytimes

NEWS & NOTES

Please save your

square tissue/

Kleenex boxes for the library. We need them for a November program.

Register at the front desk for your time to read to

one of the Read Dogs!

Eva: Thursday, August 7 15-minute time slots beginning at 4:00 p.m. & Monday, August 18 15-minute time slots beginning at 3:00 p.m.

Ladybug: Weds., Aug. 20 15-minute time slots beginning at 3:00 p.m. & Tuesday, August 26 15-minute time slots beginning at 1:00 p.m.

It’s the last month for our “In Library” summer games. Have you played yet? Mind-Sparking Mondays ended with great success. Thanks to all the teen volunteers for helping making them run!

Schedule:

August 5, 7, 8 S is for Shadows

August 12, 14, 15 T is for Time

August 19, 21, 22 E is for Tubes

August 26, 28, 29 M is for Same/

Different

Storytime will be on break September

1-12 to get ready for fall and PETE the

CAT’s LIVE visit the week of 9/16!

Summer Supporters! Please thank the businesses and organi-zations that help make our summer pro-grams possible!

Ballweg Family of Dealerships

Creek Bed Farmacy

Culver’s

Eugster’s Farm

Friends of the Ruth Culver Community Library

Madison Mallards

Mt. Olympus

Pizza Hut

Sauk Prairie Bait Shop

Sauk Prairie Optimists

Schusters Farm

Timber Falls

Top Secret

Wizard Quest

Secrets of the Apple Tree by Carron Brown & Alyssa Nassner

Who lives around the apple tree? Shine a light behind the page and see…Explore a tree up close and you will find a small world filled with great surprises! From worms wriggling among the roots, to birds nesting high in the branches, the hidden wonders of this amazing habitat are re-vealed! --Summary from book description

This is actually a “shine-a-light” book, not a shadow book, but we will share it in Storytime the week we talk about shadows because it has cool “shadowy” hid-den pictures of animal habitats that are revealed when we hold a flashlight behind the page.

Featured Children’s Book

Congratulations to Emily Cole, Natilie Scheunemann, Spencer LaCour and William LaCour, winners of our summer bookmark design contest! Their bookmarks are available for patrons at the front desk. Thanks to all who entered!

Left: Natilie

Right: Emily

Crazy 8s Math Club The library is excited to announce Crazy 8s, a brand-new, over-the-top after-school club designed to get kids fired up about math. Every week they get to build stuff, run and jump, make music, make a mess...and make friendships at the same time. It’s time for math to become the cool thing to do after school! The library will be offering one Crazy 8s Math Club on Tuesdays beginning Sep-tember 30. The age group will be de-termined based on interest. A minimum of 10 participants is suggested. Contact Beth at 643-8318 if your child is inter-ested in being a part of this crazy club!

Bookmark Contest Winners

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June’s Book Review

Hell with the Lid Blown Off by Donis Casey

This is the seventh mystery by author Donis Casey. Set in Boynton, Oklahoma in 1916, the summer is very hot and dry. But there is a storm brewing. The Tuckers’ daughter Ruth has been spending time helping out at the home of wealthy widow Beckie MacKenzie. The widow’s grand-son Wallace is home for a visit. A terrible tornado hits the county

and protagonist Alafair Tucker and her family must deal with the aftereffects.

One of Alafair and Shaw Tuck-er’s daughters and her husband are injured. Also one of their many neighbors, Jubal Beldon, is found dead after the storm. Few will mourn Jubal because he knew everyone’s secrets. And he wasn’t above blackmail. It be-comes apparent Jubal was killed before the storm. It is learned

that Wallace MacKenzie was one of Jubal’s blackmail victims. Did one of Beldon’s many victims murder him or was Beckie Mac-Kenzie’s grandson involved?

This series is reliably good. You’ll feel like you’re visiting old friends.

Also in the series: The Old Buz-zard Had It Coming; Hornswog-gled; The Drop Edge of Yonder; The Sky Took Him; Crying Blood and The Wrong Hill to Die On.

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy

Chevalier

From the moment she’s struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is dif-ferent. Though poor and uneducated, she learns on the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast that she has a unique gift: “the eye” to spot fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious com-munity on edge, the townspeople to gos-

sip—and the scientific world alight with both admiration and controversy. Prickly Eliza-beth Philpot, a middle-class spinster and also a fossil hunter, becomes Mary Anning’s unlikely champion and friend, and together they forge a path to some of the most im-portant discoveries of the nine-teenth century. --Summary from book descrip-tion

This book is part of our Read Across Time summer chal-lenge. Each book you read earns you an entry in the grand prize drawing for a Kindle Fire HD or an Amazon gift card! Reading timelines and com-plete details are available in the library. Thank you to the Friends of the Library for sponsoring!

Book of the Month

Mystery Book Club

Thursday, August 14,

6:45 p.m. The library’s Mystery Book Club will discuss Amish mysteries in August. Copies are available on display in the library. New members are always welcome! Contact June at 643-8318 with questions.

Thanks to Joe Frosch for sharing his model train collection in the lobby display case in July!

Wednesday, September 10 at Lake Wisconsin Country Club

Don’t miss the 6th annual Friends of the Library Dinner and Golf Outing at Lake Wisconsin Country Club. Registration forms and more information are available in the library and online (www.pdslibrary.org/golf-outing-2014). If you don’t

golf, consider joining us for the chicken and ham buffet

dinner and silent auction.

There are lots of opportunities to win this year, including a $2,500 Putting Challenge sponsored by Kollath & Associates. All registered amateur golfers can enter the

challenge for free. Two names will be drawn to putt.

Special opportunities to support the event as a sponsor

are also available. Contact Meagan with questions.

Friends of the Library Dinner & Golf Outing

June’s Tour of Scotland Wednesday, August 20, 6:30 p.m.

Library staffer June Beebe took a Librarian’s Tour of Scotland this sum-mer. Join us to hear about her travels and see pictures from her trip. Points of interest include Edinburgh Castle, Scot-tish Highlands, Glasgow and Loch La-

mond.

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At the Library in July

The Library’s second Worm Races were a success. Thank you to the Sauk Prairie Bait Shop for supplying the worms, Aaron Braund for announcing, and all the teen volunteers for helping!

We had so much fun at the library in July! We had great per-formances from Ja-cob Mills, the Stagedoor Singers, Steve Belliveau and more legos!

Congratulations to Amiah Cole, winner of a science kit do-nated by The Learn-ing Shop!