Upcoming Events

JULY 1—STUFFED ANIMAL

SLEEPOVER (6:30 PM)

JULY 4—LIBRARY CLOSED

JULY 10—COMMUNITY

STORYTIME AT 6:8 (4:15 PM)

JULY 11—MYSTERY BOOK

CLUB (6:45 PM)

JULY 12—LEGO BUILDING

CLUB (1:00-3:00 PM)

JULY 18—FAMILY MOVIE &

DESSERT (6:00 PM)

JULY 24—GAME ON!

(4:00 PM-5:30 PM)

JULY 31—DIGITAL SKETCHING

FOR ADULTS (6:30 PM)

JULY STORYTIMES 2

SUMMER CLUBS 2

FEATURED CHILDREN’S BOOK

2

COMMUNITY STORYTIME 2

MYSTERY BOOK CLUB 3

FRIENDS GOLF OUTING & DINNER

3

AT THE LIBRARY IN JUNE

4

Inside this issue:

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Prairie Reader

Enjoy our FREE events for children this summer! Open to all ages unless noted otherwise. Children under 6 must be accompanied by an adult.

Face Painting & Balloon Sculpting Monday, July 8, 1:00 p.m.

Learn the basics of face paint-ing and balloon twisting fun! Julie and Steve Surprenant of Paint My Face will share their talents with attendees. Latex will be present.

Musician Dave Landau Monday, July 15, 1:00 p.m. Join David Landau for an entertaining and edu-cational musical program that promises to be lively and upbeat in nature while encouraging audience participation.

Cows & Princesses Monday, July 22, 1:00 p.m.

Don't miss live cows, princesses and ice cream at the library! This event is sponsored by the Wisconsin Holstein Association with ice cream provided by Compeer Financial.

UW Space Place Myths & Legends Monday, July 29, 1:00 p.m. Learn what constellations are visible in the night sky and how to find them. Hear Greek and Native American myths about several of the constellations. This event is appropriate for school-aged children.

Amazing Mondays

Wednesday, July 31, 6:30 p.m.

Are you curious about digital sketching? Come experiment at the library! We will have iPads and Apple pencils available for use. This event is open to ages 18 and older. Registration is required.

Digital Sketching

Teen Tuesdays

Watermelon Fries (& other fruit recipes) Tuesday, July 2, 6:30 p.m.

We'll have ingredients to make a variety of fruit-filled snacks, including watermelon fries.

Totally Tetris Tuesday, July 9, 6:30 p.m.

Challenge your friends to see who can get the highest Tetris score on iPads, try giant Tetris and more!

Soapmaking Tuesday, July 16, 6:30 p.m.

Make your own melt-and-pour soap; all sup-plies will be provided!

Escape the Library Tuesday, July 23, 6:30 p.m. See if your team can crack the clues to escape the library.

Open Art Night: Felt Creations Tuesday, July 30, 6:30 p.m.

We'll have a variety of art sup-plies for you to do your own thing. This month's special projects will focus on felt creations.

Teen Tuesdays are especially for grades 6-12. Contact Meagan with questions.

Family Movie & Dessert Thursday, July 18, 6:00 p.m.

Join us in the community room for a family-friendly movie and fun dessert! This month we're show-ing the 2019 movie about June, an im-a g i n a t i v e girl, who dis-covers a hid-den amuse-ment park in the woods. The dessert will be wonder(ful) cake! Contact Beth at 643-8318 with questions.

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 care-givers at the same time!

No Bouncing Babies July 5!

Bouncing Babies July Storytimes

Schedule: Trekking Across Our Universe! July 2, 4, 5 NO REGULAR STORYTIME July 9, 11, 12 July 16, 18, 19 July 23, 25, 26

NEWS & NOTES

Register at the front desk

to read to Dax, an English Mastiff, on Wednesday, July 17. Appointments of 15 minutes are available beginning at

1:00 p.m. Register at the front desk

to read to Buddy, a

miniature Goldendoodle, on Thursday, July 25. Appointments of

15 minutes are available beginning at 3:30 p.m. The monarch caterpillars are abundant and busy

again this summer. We’ve had 4 make chrysalis so will have fun releasing them in the

garden behind the library.

Featured Children’s Book

Your Alien and sequel Your Alien Returns written by Tammi Sauer, illustrated by Goro Fujita As we go “trekking across our universe” in July’s storytimes, we’ll share stories about astronauts, aliens and space travel. In Your Alien, a spaceship crashes and a little boy gets a new friend – the alien on board. He takes it to school, they have a lot of fun, but by bedtime, the alien is homesick. The little boy knows just what to do. This is a great story for kids to practice their narrative skills in describing things like feelings, kindness and clever ideas! In the sequel, Your Alien Returns, the alien invites the little boy for a playdate and the boy gets to be the one to go for a trip to a new planet! Very heartwarming stories and we will definitely be sharing both in storytime.

Something new! The Ruth Culver Community Library has teamed up with 6:8 and we will be presenting songs and stories before the Community Meal on Wednesday, July 10. Beth and Bethany will team up to share sto-ries with two readers and songs with two parts! Should be a good time! Storytime will start at 4:15 p.m. and the free Communi-ty Meal is from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at 6:8. Their address: 821 Industry Road, Sauk City. Please join us!

Lego Building Club

Drop in and build whatever you want, name it, take a picture and display it at Lego Building

Club Friday, July 12 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Children under 6 must be accompanied by an adult. Contact Beth at 643-8318 with questions.

Celebrate space travel

and the solar

system...and aliens?!

Get your “Game On” at the library Wednesday, July 24 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Kids of all ages are invited to play the tabletop games provided. Chess clubbers take note: we'll have six chess sets available so bring your friends! Contact Beth at 643-8318 with questions.

Game On!

Summer Pet Meet & Greet

Thank you for a fun first Meet & Greet with Draco and Gilbert and to our li-brarian Kris for making frog cookies! We will have anoth-er Meet & Greet on Thursday, July 18 from 11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. This time Madeline the tortoise will also be available!

Community Storytime

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June’s Book Review Spies of Shilling Lane by Jennifer Ryan

Phyllis Braithwaite is a middle-aged woman traveling to Lon-don by train during the blitz. It’s 1940 and she’s going to visit her 20-year-old daughter Betty. Recently Mrs. Braithwaite’s hus-band divorced her. Also she’s been asked to step down as the head of the ladies group in her village.

When Mrs. B. arrives at Betty’s boarding house the landlord tells her Betty hasn’t been home for days! With London being bombed every night by the Luftwaffe Mrs. B. sets out to locate Betty. She gives the landlord, Mr. Nor-ris, no choice but to help her. Together they break into houses and infiltrate a Nazi spy ring. Eventually Mrs. Braithwaite is

forced to rethink her ideas of class and reputation and learn what’s really important in life.

Also by the author: The Chilbury Ladies' Choir Looking for more book recom-mendations? Check the staff picks display on our lower level.

Registration is now open for the 11th Annual Friends of the Ruth Culver Community Library Golf Outing & Dinner to be held Wednesday, September 4 at Lake Wisconsin Country Club. Sponsors and participants can register both online or by paper. The event will also include a dinner, silent auction and two par-ticipants will be chosen for the putting contest for a chance to win $2,500! You don't want to miss this 11th year of the golf outing and dinner! Visit www.pdslibrary.org/golf-outing-2019 for details.

Midwife of Hope River by Patricia

Harman

Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift: a

talent for escorting mothers through the

challenges of bringing children into the

world. Working in the hardscrabble con-

ditions of Appalachia during the Depres-

sion, Patience takes the jobs that no one

else wants, helping those most in need—

and least likely to pay. She knows a suc-

cessful midwifery practice must be built

on a foundation of openness and trust—

but the secrets Patience is keeping are

far too intimate and fragile for her to

ever let anyone in.

Honest, moving, and beautifully detailed,

Patricia Harman’s The Midwife of Hope

River rings with authenticity as Patience

faces nearly in-

s u r m o u n t a b l e

difficulties. From

the dangerous

mines of West

Virginia to the

terrifying atten-

tions of the Ku

Klux Klan, Pa-

tience must strive

to bring new

light and life into

an otherwise

hard world.

--Summary from book description

Book of the Month Thursday, July 11, 6:45 p.m.

The library’s Mystery Book Club will

discuss mysteries by Jessica Fellowes in

July. Select a title of your own or

choose one from the display in the li-

brary. New members are always wel-

come. Contact June at 643-8318 with

questions.

2019 Friends Golf Outing

Mystery Book Club

Thank you to all the great supporters of our summer

programs!

Black Earth Children’s Museum Cave of the Mounds

Circus World Museum Country Farmacy in Poynette

Dane County Fair Friends of the Ruth Culver Community

Library Knuckleheads

Madison Mallards Milwaukee Public Museum

Mt. Olympus Resort National Mississippi River Museum &

Aquarium, Dubuque, IA Pizza Hut

Timbavati Wildlife Park

Summer Reading

Summer Reading is going strong! There’s still time to register if you haven’t already. We have chal-lenges for ALL ages. All you have to do is read! Stop by the front desk or visit our website at www.pdslibrary.org for more in-formation.

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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

Lauren White Director

Meagan Statz Assistant Director

Beth Hays Youth Services

At the Library in June

Live reptiles

are always a big hit!

Ms. Beth had a special storytime June 15 to

celebrate dads!

We kicked off summer with treats and crafts by the trail June 10.

Wayne the Wizard’s

magic show was out of this world!