Upcoming Events

FEB. 1—LEGO BUILDING CLUB

(3:30-5:00 PM)

FEB. 5—CHESS CLUB

(6:00 PM)

FEB. 6—TEEN TUESDAY

(6:30 PM)

FEB. 8—MYSTERY BOOK CLUB

(6:45 PM)

FEB. 8—YOUNG CHILD CPR,

CHOKING & FIRST AID

(6:00 PM)

FEB. 13—TEEN TUESDAY

(6:30 PM)

FEB. 20—CRAFTING KINDNESS

(6:30 PM)

FEB. 21—ICECUBE (2:30 PM)

FEB. 22—HOMETOWN

HABITAT (6:30 PM)

FEB. 27—CANVASES &

COOKIES (6:00 PM)

FEBRUARY STORYTIMES 2

CHESS CLUB 2

LEGO BUILDING CLUB 2

JUNE’S BOOK REVIEW 3

HOMETOWN HABITAT 3

MYSTERY BOOK CLUB 3

AT THE LIBRARY IN JANUARY

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Inside this issue:

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R U T H C U L V E R C O M M U N I T Y L I B R A R Y N E W S

Prairie Reader

Saturday, February 17, 6:00 p.m. St. Al’s School Gym, 608 Oak St., Sauk City

Get your team together for the 6th Annual Friends of the Ruth Culver Community Library Trivia Challenge! This team competition is open to anyone ages 14 and up. Registration forms are available in the library and online at pdslibrary.org/trivia_challenge. Cost is $15 per person if registered by February 12

and $20 per person after February 12.

If you are unable to join us the night of the trivia challenge, you can still support the event by

purchasing raffle tickets for a chance to win one of more than 50 prizes. Top prizes are a Weber Gas Grill, a GoPro Camera, and a Craftsman Tool Chest and Tools. Tickets are $5.00 each or five for $20.00 and can be purchased at the library. The drawing will be held at St. Aloysius School Saturday, February 17 at 8:00 p.m. (Need not be present to win.)

This event is presented by the Friends of the Ruth Culver Community Library and all pro-ceeds support library programs and needs. Contact Meagan 643-8318 with questions.

Friends of the Library

Team Trivia Challenge

Wednesday, February 21, 2:30 p.m.

IceCube is the biggest and strangest tele-scope in the world! Learn about the lives of the men and women who are working in the extreme South Pole environment. Try on South Pole warm weather gear and ice drill just like the IceCube re-searchers did (but in 10 pound ice blocks)! This event is appropriate for children in grades K-5. Con-tact Beth at 643-8318 with

questions.

Early Release Wednesday:

IceCube

Frushi & Karaoke Tuesday, February 6, 6:30 p.m. Make frushi (fruit sushi) and demonstrate your karaoke skills at the library. Please note: peanut butter and Nutella will be present at this event.

Hardware Store Accessories

Tuesday, February 13, 6:30 p.m. Channel your inner designer and create accessories out of hardware store materials.

Teen events are especially for grades 6-12. Contact Meagan at 643-8318 with questions.

Teen Tuesdays

Tuesday, February 27, 6:00 p.m.

Join us for our first adult and child Canvases & Cookies. We'll have blank canvases and plenty of paint for you to create your own piece of art, and cookies for when you need a snack break! Open to children age 8 and older to attend with an adult. Space is limited; registration is re-quired. Contact Meagan at 643-8318 with questions.

Canvases & Cookies

Hometown Habitat Film Screening

Thursday, February 22, 6:30 p.m. See page 3 for more information.

Tuesday, February 20, 6:30 p.m.

High school students are invited to join us for

Crafting Kindness to use your creative skills for a cause. We will make pet toys and supplies for the Humane Society. Have fun and spread kindness at the same time!

Registration is requested. Event is open to high school

students only. Contact Meagan with questions.

Crafting Kindness

Enjoy storytimes held in

the library’s community

room!

Traditional storytimes

will be held Tuesdays

and Thursdays 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 be held

Fridays at 10:00 a.m.

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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, fin-gerplays and stories. This is a great way to bond with your baby, meet other kids at the same stages, learn valuable pre-reading activities, develop life-long learners and socialize with other parents and caregivers at the same time!

NO Bouncing Babies Feb. 23!

Bouncing Babies February Storytimes

All aboard the alphabet train for Storytime!

Jan. 30, Feb. 1, 2 O...Once upon a time

Feb. 6, 8, 9 P...Police and pajamas?! Wearing pajamas is welcomed!

Policeman Travis will visit Tuesday, 2/6 at 10:30!

Feb. 13, 15, 16 Happy Valentines!

Feb. 20, 22, 23 NO STORYTIME

Feb. 27, Mar. 1, 2 Q...Shh! Quiet.

Winter Weather Policy: If school is cancelled, storytime is cancelled. If school is delayed, we will hold storytime.

NEWS & NOTES

Register at the front desk

to read to Ladybug, a King Charles Cavalier

Spaniel, on Wednesday, February 7. Appointments of 15 minutes are available

between 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.

P.S. Storytime is happening! Whether you come to Storytime at 10:00 and stay after, or arrive between 10:30 & 11:30, there are lots of toys for the kids to play with and burn off energy while parents visit. Reminder: no library supervision during this time, so please keep a close eye on the children! P.S. Storytime is on break when traditional storytime is on break.

There is Winter Olympics fun, trivia and crafts in the Children’s area through the Olympic weeks. Watch for the coloring bookmarks to come back after that!

Chess Club for Kids

Monday, February 5, 6:00—7:00 p.m.

Chess Club returns to the first Monday of the month beginning February 5. School-age chil-dren and up are invited. Parents are also wel-come. Beginner instruction provided by Jenna McCann. Boards, chess pieces and a snack provided. Contact Beth at 643-8318 with questions.

Quiet by Kate Alizadeh

Shh! Listen. What’s that noise? This is a ques-tion asked repeatedly in the story as a busy toddler goes about her day. It’s pretty amazing all the “ c r e ak s ” a n d “ r a t t l e s ” an d “pings!” It will be fun to make the sounds and identify where they come from. Great for vocabulary and knowing the names of things as well as print awareness of the words written on the pages. Also fun to listen to

what we hear as we go about our days!

Featured Book

There’s still time to participate in the Culver’s Reading Program! All ages may participate. Read 5 (age-appropriate) books to earn one free scoop of fresh frozen custard. Read 10 books to earn a free kids’ meal or SnackPak. Get your bookmarks at the front desk and start reading! Pro-gram runs through April 2018. One bookmark per person. Thank you to Culver’s Restaurant of Sauk City for sponsor-

ing this program.

Read for Culver’s!

Lego Building Club Thursday, February 1, 3:30—5:00 p.m. &

Thursday, March 1, 3:30—5:00 p.m.

Join us for Lego Building Club. Drop in and build whatever you want, name it, take a pic-ture and display it! Duplos are available for younger children. Children under 6 must be accompanied by an adult. Lego Building Club meets on the first Thursday of the month through May. Contact Beth with questions.

First Steps in Music & Movement

Don’t miss the last two weeks of the First Steps in Music and Movement winter session. Join Ms. Beth Mondays, February 5 and 12 at 3:30 p.m. First Steps is a FREE music and movement class for kids age 3 and up. Classes will meet for approximately 40 minutes. Contact Beth at

643-8318 with questions.

Ms. Beth is collecting: any size clean, empty tin cans (bigger

like coffee cans especially desired!) old battery powered toothbrushes no

longer needed but still working pool noodles (old okay if in decent

shape)

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June’s Book Review The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place by Alan Brad-ley

The title of this mystery is a quote from a poem by An-drew Marvell circa 1681. In this ninth book in the Flavia de Luce series the 12-year-old sleuth and her sisters Feely and Daffy are taken on a boating trip by family retain-er, Dogger. The year is 1952 and Flavia’s father and King George VI

have both recently died. As Flavia and her sisters are floating along in their boat she is trailing her hand in the water. Of course being Flavia she snags the corpse of young Orlando Whitbread by the teeth! Recently Orlando’s father, Canon Whitbread, had been executed for poisoning three parishioners at communion. The local constable believes Or-lando died by drowning. Fla-via is sure he was also poi-

soned. This series is unique, amusing and always entertain-ing. Also in the series: The Sweet-ness at the Bottom of the Pie; The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag; A Red Herring without Mustard; I Am Half-Sick of Shadows; Speaking From Among the Bones; The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches; As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust and Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery

nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more

than twenty years’ experience. During

her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup

on a newborn, only to be told a few

minutes later that she’s been reassigned

to another patient. The parents are white

supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is

African American, to touch their child. The

hospital complies with their request, but

the next day, the baby goes into cardiac

distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery.

Does she obey orders or does she inter-

vene?

Ruth hesitates before performing CPR

and, as a result, is charged with a serious

crime. Kennedy McQuarrie, a white pub-

lic defender, takes her case

but gives unexpected ad-

vice: Kennedy insists that

mentioning race in the court-

room is not a winning strate-

gy. Conflicted by Kennedy’s

counsel, Ruth tries to keep

life as normal as possible

for her family—especially

her teenage son—as the

case becomes a media sen-

sation. As the trial moves

forward, Ruth and Kennedy

must gain each other’s trust,

and come to see that what

they’ve been taught their whole lives

about others—and themselves—might

be wrong.

With incredible empathy,

intelligence, and candor,

Jodi Picoult tackles race,

privilege, prejudice, justice,

and compassion—and

doesn’t offer easy answers.

Small Great Things is a re-

markable achievement

from a writer at the top of

her game.

--Summary from book

description

Book of the Month

Thursday, February 8, 6:45 p.m.

The library’s Mystery Book Club will

discuss mysteries by James Benn in

February. Choose your favorite or

select one from the display in the li-

brary. New members are always wel-

come. Contact June at 643-8318 with

questions.

Mystery Book Club

Thursday, February 22, 6:30 p.m.

Did you know that native plants - once estab-lished - do not require the use of chemicals such

as herbicides and pesticides to maintain their beauty? Or that they don’t require extra watering from our precious supply of potable water? Did you know that our native pollinators and birds gener-

ally prefer native plants?

You are invited to attend a free showing of Hometown Habitat - Stories of Bringing Nature Home at the library. Through its profile of 7 hometown habitat heroes, this film will help to answer these questions for you. Contact the

library at 643-8318 with questions.

Film: Hometown Habitat

Thursday, February 8 6:00-8:00 p.m.

You are invited to an informative and fun class packed with im-portant things you need to know in caring for young children. Class will be presented by a certified t rainer f rom Pu l se Check Plus. Space is limited, so please register for this FREE class at the library circulation desk. Please note, you will not get certified, but you will gain an incredible amount of emergency knowledge. Contact Beth at 643-8318 with questions.

Young Child CPR, Choking & Pediatric First Aid

540 Water Street

Prairie du Sac, WI 53578

A member of the South Central Library System

R U T H C U L V E R C O M M U N I T Y L I B R A R Y N E W S

Phone: 608-643-8318

Web: www.pdslibrary.org

Jennifer Endres Way Director

Meagan Statz Assistant Director

Beth Hays Youth Services

At the Library in January

Thank you to authors

Rose Bingham and Doris Green for

sharing their

stories January

16.

Thank you to Sue Lloyd for leading the Needle Felting workshop January 29 and the Friends of the Library for sponsoring.

Teens success-

fully solved

the clues to

“escape” the

library January

9.

Kids had a blast getting active with Erika Gerhardt and Zumba January 17!

The entire staff gathered for a photo after our January in-service.