Upcoming Events
APR. 5—TEEN TUESDAY:
GRAHAM CRACKERS (6:30
PM)
APR. 12—TEEN TUESDAY:
MYSTERY NIGHT (6:30 PM)
APR. 14—MYSTERY BOOK
CLUB (6:45 PM)
APR. 20—RECYCLED
CRAFTS FOR KIDS (2:15 PM)
APR. 20—M&M
BOOKWORMS (6:00 PM)
APR. 21—CURT MEINE
(6:30 PM)
APR. 26—LEGO BUILDING
CLUB (3:30 PM-5:00 PM)
APR. 29—CHILDREN’S DAY
(6:00 PM)
APR. 30—FRIENDS TRIVIA
CHALLENGE (6:00 PM)
APRIL STORYTIMES 2
M&M BOOKWORMS 2
LEGO BUILDING CLUB 2
JUNE’S BOOK REVIEW 3
MYSTERY BOOK CLUB 3
WELCOME ANGEE 3
AT THE LIBRARY IN MARCH
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Prairie Reader
Graham Crackers
Tuesday, April 5, 6:30 p.m. Teens are invited to make a varie-ty of treats that feature graham crackers as an ingredient at this month's Teen Tuesday: Food
Edition. Peanut butter may be used at this event.
Mystery Night Tuesday, April 12, 6:30 p.m. Go on a mystery scavenger hunt in the library, do blind taste tests and solve puzzles!
Teen Tuesdays are especially for grades 6-12. Contact Meagan at 643-8318 with questions.
Teen Tuesdays
Thursday, April 21, 6:30 p.m.
Curt Meine will talk about his background as a student of Aldo Leopold’s life, work, and writing, and what les-sons Leopold’s legacy holds for Wisconsin today. Thank you to the Friends of the Ruth Culver Community Library for sponsoring this event.
Aldo Leopold & Wisconsin’s Conservation Tradition
Celebrate National Library Week
April 10-16, 2016
Team Trivia Challenge Saturday, April 30, 6:00 p.m. at the St. Aloysius School gym
It's time for our annual Trivia Challenge, open to anyone ages 14-114! This team competition hosted by the Friends of the Ruth Culver Community Library will include a si-lent auction, 50/50 raffle, concessions, priz-es, team table decoration contest and, new this year, a pie auction. Registration forms are available in the library and online at www.pdslibrary.org/trivia_challenge. Cost is $15 per person if registered and paid by April 25 and $20 per person after April 25. Maximum team size is 8 members. Contact Meagan at the library at 643-8318 with questions.
Friday, April 29, 6:00 p.m.
Join comedian, actor and juggler Jacob Mills from Wild Rum-pus Circus in the big show! Watch out...you just might end up in the show too! This event will be fun for the en-tire family and will also include piñatas, book prize drawings and refreshments. Contact Heather Cole, Bilingual Library Aide, at 643-8318 with questions.
Children’s Day/Book Day
Recycled Crafts for Kids Wednesday, April 20, 2:15—4:00 p.m.
School's out early so kids are invited to the library to make recycled crafts in celebration of Earth Day! We'll work with newspaper and oth-er recycled materi-als. This program is for school-age kids. Children 5 and under must be ac-companied by an adult. Contact Beth at 643-8318 with questions.
Enjoy storytimes held in the library’s
community room! Traditional sto-
rytimes 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.
P.S. Storytime continues through May! Toys are pulled out so kids can climb, build, explore while par-ents supervise and visit. No supervi-sion is provided by library staff.
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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!
Bouncing Babies
April Storytimes: My Favorite Things
Schedule:
April 5, 7, 8
April 12, 14, 15
April 19, 21, 22
April 26, 28, 29
NEWS & NOTES
Register at the front desk
to read to Ladybug, a King Charles Cavalier Spaniel, on Tuesday, April 19. Appointments
of 15 minutes are available between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Register at the front desk
to read to Buddy, a miniature Goldendoodle,
on Thursday, April 7 Appointments of 15 minutes are available between 3:30
p.m. and 5:30 p.m. PLEASE DONATE! In April, we will be creating faces with different “bits” in Storytime. Beth would appreciate donations of anything fun & smallish from the toolbox: like springs, small screws, nuts (nothing sharp please). From the garden: tiny pine cones, small shells, rocks, etc. From the toybox: tiny toys (nothing that will roll like marbles). We HAVE plenty of beads, buttons, office supplies. THANKS!
Tuesday, April 26, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Drop in between 3:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. to build with the legos provided. Build whatever you want, name it, take a picture and display it! See page 4 for pictures from March.
Building Club is held on the fourth Tuesday of the month. Duplos are availa-ble for younger children, however, children under 6 must be accompanied by an adult. Contact Beth at 643-8318 with questions.
Let’s Make Faces by Hanoch Piven
In this, and Piven’s other books, every day items are used to make new faces and characters. We
will share this story and books by Saxton Frey-mann, who turns fruits and vegetables into faces and creatures, and Lois Ehlert books that use different materials to create char-acters and story back-grounds. And… there’s an app for that! Library iPads now feature an app called Faces iMake creat-
ed by iMagine Machine. Then we will do some creating!
Featured Children’s Book
Wednesday, April 20, 6:00 p.m.
In April the M&M Bookworms will discuss A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd. Copies are available on display in the library.
M&M Bookworms is a parent and child book club for those reading at a 4th-5th grade level. Each meeting includes a discussion and snack or activity to go with the book. The club meets on the third Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. Contact Beth with questions.
M&M Bookworms
Lego Building Club
April storytimes will be dedicated to “My Favorite
Things,” including the famous song from the Sound of
Music. Ms. Beth will share her favorite books, songs, flan-
nels, apps and more. She would also like to know yours
so make a request! We’ll also have lots of special guests!
Read Dog Ladybug
Tuesday, April 12
Read Dog Buddy
Friday, April 15
Pirate John
Tuesday, April 19
Teach a Child to
Save Day
Thursday, April 28
A bank-
er from
the Bank
of Prairie du Sac will
visit with a story and
goodies for all!
Special Storytime Guests
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June’s Book Review Journey to Munich by Jacqueline Winspear
The year is 1938, the setting, London, England. In this mys-tery, the thirteenth in the Maisie Dobbs series, Maisie has come home after two years and the death of her husband James in an airplane accident. Maisie, who is a private investi-gator, psychologist and World War I nurse, is staying with her friend Priscilla and family. A
representative of the British government wants Maisie to go to Munich, Germany to bring home Leon Donat, a British publisher and industrialist who is being detained at Dachau.
Donat is of value to Britain. The Nazis will only release him to a family member. His only living relative is daughter who is too ill to travel. Maisie will impersonate his daughter, Ed-wina, and go to retrieve him.
The book shows Maisie’s emo-
tional turmoil and the growing tensions in a Europe on the brink of war. Also in the series:
Maisie Dobbs; Birds of a Feather; Pardonable Lies; Messenger of Truth; An In-complete Revenge; Among the Mad; The Mapping of Love and Death; A Lesson in Secrets; Elegy for Eddie; Leaving Everything Most Loved; A Dangerous Place
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Composed with the skills of a master, The
Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through
p r e s e n t - d a y
America and a
drama of en-
thralling force
and acuity.
It begins with a
boy. Theo Decker,
a thirteen-year-
old New Yorker,
miraculously sur-
vives an accident
that kills his moth-
er. Abandoned by his father, Theo is
taken in by the family of a wealthy
friend. Bewildered by his strange new
home on Park Avenue, disturbed by
schoolmates who don’t know how to talk
to him, and tormented above all by his
longing for his mother, he clings to the
one thing that reminds him of her: a
small, mysteriously captivating painting
that ultimately draws Theo into the crimi-
nal underworld.
As an adult, Theo moves silkily between
the drawing rooms of the rich and the
dusty labyrinth of an antiques store
where he works. He is alienated and in
love—and his talisman, the painting,
places him at the center of a narrowing,
ever more dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch is a novel of striking narra-
tive energy and power. It combines un-
forgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing
language, and breathtaking suspense,
while plumbing with a philosopher’s calm
the deepest mysteries of love, identity,
and art. It is a beautiful, stay-up-all-
night-and-tell-all-your-friends triumph, an
old-fashioned story of loss and obsession,
survival and self-invention, and the ruth-
less machinations of fate. --Selected by Angee; Summary from book
description
Book of the Month
Welcome Angee!
Please welcome Angee, our new Library Clerk! Angee grew up in Sauk Prairie, and currently lives in Prairie du Sac. She also works at the Sequoya branch of the Madison Public Library and volunteers as an usher at the Overture Center and American Play-ers Theatre. In her free time, Angee enjoys walking her pug and read-ing. Some of her favorite books are Me Before You and the sequel After You by Jojo Moyes and The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (this month’s Book of the Month).
This is the last month to complete your Culver’s Winter Reading Bookmark! Simply read 20 (age appropriate) books, fill out the bookmark, get it stamped at the library and receive a meal! Completed bookmarks do not have an expiration date when it comes to redeeming them at Culver’s in Sauk City. Only one bookmark per person please. Thank you Culvers!
Last Chance to Read for Culver’s! T h u r s d a y , A p r i l 1 4 ,
6:45 p.m.
The library’s Mystery Book Club will
discuss mysteries set in Australia in
April. Choose a
title of your own
or select one from
the display in the
l ibrary. New
members
are al-
ways wel-
c o m e !
C o n t a c t
June at
6 4 3 -
8318 with
questions.
Mystery Book Club
We are collecting for summer:
Clear glass jars with lids
Yarn
Sheets of wood no more than
1/2 inch thick and measuring
between 8inx8in and 20inx20in
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
Beth Hays Youth Services
Meagan Statz Teen & Adult Services
At the Library in March
Teens made dips and
buttons in March!
Thanks to the Sauk Prairie School District for the Youth Art on display
in the Month of March. Have a display you’d like to share? Contact
Beth at 643-8318.
Thank you to the Friends of the Ruth Culver Community Library for sponsoring the DIY cleaning products for
adults!
Painting snakes and playing BINGO!
More
Legos!
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