Upcoming Events

DEC. 2—TEEN TUESDAY:

FOOD EDITION (6:30 PM)

DEC. 9—TEEN TUESDAY

(6:30 PM)

DEC. 10—MOVIE DAY

(2:15 PM)

DEC. 11—MYSTERY

BOOK CLUB (6:45 PM)

DEC. 23—HOLIDAY

SING-ALONG (10:00

AM)

DEC. 24 & 25– LIBRARY

CLOSED

DEC. 30—LEGO BUILD-

ING (1:00 PM)

DEC. 31—LIBRARY

CLOSES AT 4:00 P.M.

JAN. 1—LIBRARY CLOSED

DECEMBER STORYTIMES 2

FEATURED CHILDREN’S BOOK

2

READ FOR CULVER’S 2

JUNE’S BOOK REVIEW 3

MYSTERY BOOK CLUB 3

BOOK OF THE MONTH 3

AT THE LIBRARY IN NOVEMBER

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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

Wednesday, December 10, 2:15 p.m.

School's out early so head to the library to see Maleficent, the 2014 movie that tells the story of the iconic Disney villain from Sleeping Beau-ty. Popcorn will be provided. Contact the library at 643-8318 with questions. Movie is rated PG.

Early Release Movie Day

Tuesday, December 30, 1:00 p.m.—3:00 p.m.

Looking for something to do over the winter break? Head to the library for another Lego Building Day! Drop in anytime between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. to build with the legos pro-

vided. We’ll take a snack break halfway through. This program is appropriate for school-age chil-dren. Contact Beth at 643-8318 with questions.

Lego Building Day

Tuesday, December 23, 10:00 a.m. There’s no school. You’re busy getting ready for the holidays. Just want to do something short, sweet and seasonal with the kids? You are invited to a Holi-day Sing-Along at the library! Enjoy favorite classics for all the winter holidays. Children are also invited to frost cut-out cookies. In the spirit of giving, you may bring an item (or more) to be do-nated to the Food Pantry. Please contact Beth at 643-8318 if there are more than five in your party so we may accommodate you.

Holiday Sing-Along

Teen Events

Teen Tuesday Food Edition:

Cookie Decorating Tuesday, December 2, 6:30 p.m.

Join us to decorate holi-

day cookies at this month's

Teen Tuesday Food Edi-

tion. This is also a great

opportunity to recommend

books for the library col-

lection and share your

ideas. Especially for

grades 6-12.

Teen Tuesday: DIY Gifts Tuesday, December 9, 6:30 p.m.

Make things to give as holiday gifts (or keep for yourself) at this month’s Teen Tuesday. This event is especially for grades 6-12. We’ll have a variety of different projects and supplies available. Contact Meagan at 643-8318 with questions.

HOLIDAY HOURS

THE LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24,

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25 &

THURSDAY, JANUARY 1.

WE WILL CLOSE AT 4:00 P.M.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31.

Lost and Found The library has accumulated several coats and other personal belongings in our lost and found. If you’re missing something, make sure you check the table in the community room be-fore we find new homes for the items at the end of the month!

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.

This school year we’ll be exploring holi-

days throughout the year. Some are

familiar, some are not, but all are rea-

sons to read and sing about!

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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, fingerplays and stories. This is a great way to bond with your baby, meet other kids at the same stages, learn valu-able pre-reading activities, develop life-long learners and socialize with other parents and caregiv-ers at the same time!

No Babies 12/26 or 1/2!

Bouncing Babies December Storytimes

Schedule:

Dec. 2, 4, 5 Cookies

Dec. 9, 11, 12 Toys

Dec. 16, 18, 19 First Day of Winter

Dec. 23—Jan. 2 NO STORYTIME

Happy Holidays!

Reading books will enhance your child’s reading skills:

1. Narrative—being able to describe things and events and tell stories.

2. Print Motivation—being interested in and enjoying books.

3. Phonological Awareness—being able to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words.

4. Letter Knowledge—knowing letters are different from each other, knowing their names and sounds and recognizing let-ters everywhere.

5. Print Awareness—noticing print, knowing how to handle a book and knowing how to follow the words on a page.

6. Vocabulary—knowing the names of things.

And it’s fun!

Reasons to Give the Gift of a Book this Holiday Season

Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner, illustrated by Christopher Silas Neal

Under the snow is a secret world of squirrels, snow hares, bears and bullfrogs and others who live through winter safe and warm under the snow. Narrative Skills (early literacy skill) can be developed as the little girl narrator skis with Dad over the snow and kids discover what animals she is skiing over under the snow. Great

for spying all the animals too! We will share this story when we talk about the first day of winter in storytime the week of 12/16-12/19.

Featured Children’s Book

It's back! Culver's of Sauk City is once again sponsoring a reading program for ALL ages! Here's how it works: ask for a bookmark at the front desk. Read 20 books (at your reading level) and record them o n y o u r bookmark. Bring your bookmark to the library to be stamped. Take your com-pleted, stamped bookmark to Culver's of Sauk City for a SnackPak! You may com-plete one bookmark only. Program runs through April 30, 2015. Thank you to Culver’s of Sauk City for sponsoring this program!

NEWS & NOTES

P.S. Storytime continues in

December. Play and stay a f te r s to r y t ime on Thursdays from 10:30 to 11:30. We’ll pull out lots of toys and let children burn off some energy in the cold weather months. We’ve been getting new toys, so don't miss something new each week! Please note, library staff will not be available to supervise. You are respons ible for supervising your own children.

Winter 2015 Read Dog schedules for Eva and Ladybug will be out soon. Children are invited to register for 15-minute appointments to read to the dogs.

In conjunction with Growing

Wisconsin Readers, we are

giving out calendars with

early literacy activities to

complete each day. If kids

complete and mark off

each day’s activity they

can earn a small prize!

Read for Culver’s

Your Help is Needed! Ms. Beth is looking for donations of old t-shirts (colors, sizes or stains do not matter) and empty toilet paper

tubes to be used at an early release project day for kids coming up in January. We’ll use them to make toys for pets! Donations can be

dropped off at the front desk at any time.

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June’s Book Review

Proxima by Stephen Baxter

What if you woke up from almost 100 years of cryogenic hibernation only to be shanghaied onto a space-ship being sent to colonize another planet? Yuri Eden is only 20 years old. It’s around 250 years from now and there is a constant cold war going on between the super powers of China and the U. N. A new technology has been discovered called “kernels.”

The kernels have revolutionized space travel and the powers that be are sending 1000 of the more marginal-ized people to Proxima Centauri. The colonists on Proxima have to struggle to survive. To aid the colonists is Col-U, a colonizing unit multi-purpose robot with as much personali-ty as any of the people. This is an intriguing idea of a plausi-ble future.

Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler

Forbidden love. Unlikely friendship. A journey that will change two lives forev-er... Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser, Dorrie Curtis. It’s a big one. Isabelle wants Dor-rie to drop everything and drive her from her home in Texas to a funeral near Cincinnati. With no clear explanation why. Tomorrow. Dorrie, a black single mom fleeing prob-

lems of her own, wonders if she can unlock the mysteries of Isabelle’s guarded past. She hardly hesitates before agreeing to Isabelle’s re-quest, never imagining it will be a journey that changes both their lives. As they drive, Isabelle con-fesses her longest-kept se-cret. As a willful teen in 1930s Kentucky, she fell deeply in love with Robert Prewitt, a would-be doctor

and the black son of her family’s housekeeper—in a town where blacks weren’t allowed after dark. The tale of this forbidden relationship and its tragic consequences makes it clear that Dorrie and Isabelle are headed for a gathering of the utmost importance, and that the history of Isabelle’s first and greatest love just might help Dorrie find her own way.

--Summary from book jacket

Book of the Month

Book Sale a Success The Friends of the Ruth Culver Community Library’s fall book sale was a great success! Thank you to all who shopped and/or donated materials for the sale. Special thanks to the volunteers for making the sale possible: Bob Henseler, Angie Ward, Betty Deischer, Helen Campbell, Bill Campbell, Louise Enge, Gary Mijal, Bob Straub, Mar-ilyn Straub, Tamara Straub, Sue Dohm, Elaine Smith, Sue Lloyd and Luann Endres. Watch for the next sale coming in May 2015!

Mystery Book Club Thursday, December 11, 6:45 p.m.

We will be meeting outside the library this month. Please ask

June for discussion location. The library’s Mystery Book Club will discuss

Christmas mysteries in Decem-ber. Choose a title of your own or select one from the display in the library. New members are always welcome! Contact June at 643-8318 with ques-tions.

If you’d like to read a light but

entertaining Christmas mystery try Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas

by Stephanie Barron. This is the twelfth in a series of mysteries with Jane Austen as the protagonist. First person narration by Jane captures the tone of her famous novels. Jane and her family are invited to a house party at mansion when a death occurs.

Lego Fun! Thank you to the

Sodergren Family for

letting us borrow their legos and helping out at our popular

building days! Watch for more building days in December and

January!

Also by the author:

Iron Winter

The Wheel of Ice

Bronze Summer

Stone Spring

Ark

Flood

The H-Bomb Girl

Weaver

and more!

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

Kids had a great time

playing soccer and dodgeball at the library

on International Game Day.

Thank you Kara and John from

the Sauk Prairie Recreation

Department!

At the Library in November

Thank you to Kathrin Judd for organizing and sponsoring the children’s Lantern Walk

held November 7. We had a great time!

Teens made pancakes (and played Twister)

November 4!