Upcoming Events

JAN. 2—LIBRARY CLOSED

JAN. 3—TEEN TUESDAY

(6:30 PM)

JAN. 6—LIBRARY CLOSES AT

4:00 PM

JAN. 7—LIBRARY CLOSES AT

1:00 PM

JAN. 10—TEEN TUESDAY (6:30

PM)

JAN. 11—CARICATURE ART FOR

KIDS (2:30 PM)

JAN. 12—MYSTERY BOOK CLUB

(6:45 PM)

JAN. 17—TEEN TRIVIA (7:00 PM)

JAN. 25—FRIENDS OF THE

LIBRARY MEETING (6:30 PM)

JAN. 26—LEGO CLUB (3:30 PM)

JAN. 27—LIBRARY CLOSES AT

11:15 AM

JANUARY STORYTIMES 2

FEATURED CHILDREN’S BOOK

2

LEGO BUILDING CLUB 2

MYSTERY BOOK CLUB 3

JUNE’S TOP PICKS OF 2016

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NEW SCANNER 3

AT THE LIBRARY IN DECEMBER

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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

Tuesday, January 31, 4:00 p.m.

The tree mural in the Children’s area is almost done. Former art teacher Chris Junkins has painted the tree…now it is up to us to decorate it! We plan to change the tree seasonally. Since it is winter, the

branches are bare, but eagles are nesting and snow is falling! School aged chil-dren are invited to come to create an eagle and/or snowflake to put in and around the tree. Not to wor-

ry…if we have extra, we’ll decorate the bulletin board too! Fun will begin 4:00 p.m. with the eagle and snowflake crafts. Dedication and decoration of the mural will follow at 5:00 p.m. Children age 6 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Contact Beth at 643-8318 with questions.

This Tree is for Me! Early Release Wednesday:

Caricature Art for Kids

Wednesday, January 11, 2:30 p.m.

Meet Kim and Tami from Fun-ny Faces Family Entertain-ment! They will draw a couple caricatures for you. Can you guess who it is? Then it will be turned over to the kids and they will be instructed on how to draw caricatures! What a fun winter early release ac-tivity! This program is appro-priate for children aged 5 &

older. Contact Beth at 643-8318 with questions.

Tuesday, January 17, 7:00 p.m.

Test your knowledge of a variety of topics at our Ultimate Trivia Quiz! Please bring your smartphone or other mobile device. Snacks will be provided and prizes awarded! This event is open to high school stu-dents only. Registration is appreciated. Contact Meagan at 643-8318 with questions.

Ultimate (Teen) Trivia Quiz

Taco Tuesday

Tuesday, January 3, 6:30 p.m. It's Teen Taco Tuesday at the library! We'll provide a variety of fillings and toppings for you to assemble

your own tacos.

Karaoke, Games & Memes

Tuesday, January 10, 6:30 p.m. Teen Karaoke Night is back! Show off your skills with your favorite songs. We'll also have memes and games while you wait for your turn with the micro-phone.

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

643-8318 with questions.

Teen Tuesdays Special Hours

Monday, January 2: CLOSED

Friday, January 6: closing at 4:00 p.m.

Saturday, January 7: closing at 1:00 p.m.

Friday, January 27: closing at 11:15 a.m.

Wednesday, January 25, 6:30 p.m.

The Friends of the Ruth Culver Community Library will meet in the library community room Wednes-day, January 25. Join us to share your ideas or find out how you can make a difference for the library.

Friends of the Library

Enjoy storytimes held in

the library’s community

room! Traditional sto-

rytimes will be held

Tuesdays and Thurs-

days at 10:00 a.m.

Beth will share stories,

snacks, music and more

with your child. Musical

s torytimes (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. B o u n c i n g 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 valuable pre-reading activities, develop life-long learners and socialize with other parents and caregivers at the same time!

Bouncing Babies January Storytimes

Schedule:

Jan. 3, 5, 6 NO STORYTIME

Jan. 10, 12, 13 Dinosaurs

Jan. 17, 19, 20 Noisy trucks

Jan. 24, 26, 27 Monsters

Winter Weather Policy: Programs are cancelled if

school is cancelled.

NEWS & NOTES

Register at the front desk

to read to Buddy, a miniature Goldendoodle,

on Wednesday, January 25. Appointments of 15 minutes are available between

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

P.S. Storytime is back for the winter! Stay after traditional storytimes on Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. to burn some energy! We will have some bird activities in the children’s area around Eagle Watching Days: 1/13-1/14!

In January we’re “ROARING” into a new year for storytime! This includes a week of noisy vehicle stories. What could be better than a series that describes the different

noises each type of each vehicle makes? Who knew there were such dif-ferent sounds for eight differ-ent trucks or eight different trains? Steve L igh t knew,

that’s who! These board books’ noises are fun to make as you chug, splash, fly, etc. through Trains Go, Boats Go, Planes Go, Trucks Go and Diggers Go!

Featured Children’s Book

Thursday, January 26, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

The monthly Lego Building Club moves to the fourth Thursday of the month in January! Drop-in between 3:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. to build with the legos provid-ed. Build whatever you want, name it, take a pic-

t u r e a n d display it in the library dis-play cases! Duplos are avail-able for younger children. However, children under 6 must be accompanied by an adult. Contact Beth at 643-8318 with questions.

Lego Building Club

1,000 Books before Kindergarten

The 1,000 Books before Kindergarten Reading program encourages parents and caregivers to read to children ag-es five and under. The goal of reading 1,000 books before kindergarten is to provide your child the learning readi-ness skills needed to enter kindergar-ten. It may sound like a daunting task, but if you read just three books every day, at the end of one year you will have read 1,095 books! This app makes keeping track of the books both

easy and fun.

Anyone who reads to your child can easily track books by using the scanner on their mobile device to populate the list (simply

scan the UPC code on the back of the book).

Titles read multiple times are allowed and

can be scanned in multiple times.

Titles that aren't found by scanning

can be manually typed into the list.

List of books read can be emailed at

any time to save or print.

Get reading tips when you log in.

Up to 5 children can be added to one account, each with a separate reading list. Unlock achievement levels within the app when your child reaches

a specific numbers of books.

Share your reading achievements with friends and family on facebook and twitter

using the “share” button.

Once you’ve logged 1,000 books in the app, proudly show your list to Ms. Beth and

she will have a prize for you!

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June’s Book Review Out of Bounds by Val McDer-mid

Detective constable Karen Pirie is a cold case investigator in present day Edinburgh, Scot-land. Pirie’s boyfriend was killed in the line of duty. She has insomnia and walks the streets of the city at night when she can’t sleep. After a car accident, caused by teenage boys joyriding, only the driver survives. A routine

DNA sample is taken from the driver and leads to a familial match in an unsolved murder from 22 years earlier. At the same time detective Pirie learns of a 32-year-old man, Gabriel Abbott, believed to have committed suicide. Detec-tive Pirie starts looking into both cases. Karen Pirie is a character with messy hair, and rumpled cloth-ing. Brooding, no-nonsense

and fair, her job is her life. Author McDermid juggles the three storylines expertly. Also in the series: The Distant Echo; A Darker Domain and The Skeleton Road. Val McDermid is also author of series featuring Tony Hill/Carol Jordan, Lindsay Gordon, and Kate Brannigan as well as sev-eral stand alone novels, short story collections and nonfiction.

The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

In 1939, as Poland falls under the shad-

ow of the Nazis and the world goes to

war, young Alma Belasco’s parents send

her overseas to live in safety with an

aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in

San Francisco. There she encounters

Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family’s

Japanese gardener, and between them

a tender love blossoms. Following the

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the

two are cruelly pulled apart as Ichimei

and his family—like thousands of other

Japanese-Americans—are declared ene-

mies and forcibly relocated to internment

camps run by the United States govern-

ment. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma

and Ichimei reunite again and again, but

theirs is a love that they are forever

forced to hide from the world.

Decades later, Alma is nearing the end

of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili,

a care worker struggling to come to

terms with her own troubled past, meets

the elderly woman and her grandson,

Seth, at San Francisco’s charmingly ec-

centric Lark House nursing home. As Irina

and Seth forge a friendship, they be-

come intrigued by a series of mysterious

gifts and letters sent to Alma, and learn

about Ichimei and this extraordinary se-

cret passion that has endured for nearly

seventy years.

Sweeping through time and spanning

generations and continents, The Japanese

Lover explores

questions of

identity, aban-

donment, re-

demption, and

the unknowable

impact of fate

on our lives.

--Summary from

book description

Book of the Month

Time and Time Again by Ben Elton

Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson

After the Fire by Lauren Belfer

At the Edge of Summer by Jessica Brockmole

The Mandibles: a family 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver

Forever and Forever by Josi Kilpack

Monsoon Summer by Julia Gregson

Out of Bounds by Val McDermid

Last Year by Robert Charles Wilson

Thursday, January 12, 6:45 p.m.

The library’s Mystery Book Club will

discuss mysteries by Wisconsin authors

in January. Choose a title of your own

or select one from the display in the

library. New members are always wel-

come! Contact June at 643-8318 with

questions.

Mystery Book Club New Scanner June’s Top Picks of 2016

The library has a new ScanSnap scanner that can scan 25 4x6 pho-tos in about 30 seconds! It can also scan stacks of documents (up to 50 pages). The scanner is only available on computer #1. Try it out the next time you're in the library or contact us to make an appointment. (We recommend bringing your own USB drive for

saving).

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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

Phone: 608-643-8318

Web: www.pdslibrary.org

Jennifer Endres Way Director

Meagan Statz Assistant Director

Beth Hays Youth Services

At the Library in December Fun was had by all at the Holiday Sing-Along! Thanks to Dave Rogal-

la and Bethany Wruck for their musical talents. Thank you also to Santa for his special visit 12/23!

Kids had a great time at the cookie cutter ex-travaganza

December 7!

Teens made “gingerbread”

houses and played games with legos in

December.