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!