Upcoming Events

OCT. 4—TEEN TUESDAY

(6:30 PM)

OCT. 11—TEEN TUESDAY

(6:30 PM)

OCT. 13—MYSTERY BOOK

CLUB (6:45 PM)

OCT. 17—CHAD LEWIS (7:00

PM)

OCT. 19—BACKYARD BATS

(2:30 PM)

OCT. 24—LEGO BUILDING

CLUB (3:30 PM-5:00 PM)

OCT. 25—PIZZA & PAGES

(7:00 PM)

OCT. 26—YOUNG CHILD

CPR, CHOKING & FIRST AID

CLASS (6:00 PM)

OCT. 27—REPTILE APPRECIA-

TION DAY (1:00 PM)

OCTOBER STORYTIMES 2

LEGO BUILDING CLUB 2

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FOR KIDS

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JUNE’S BOOK REVIEW 3

MYSTERY BOOK CLUB 3

SCANNING KIT 3

AT THE LIBRARY IN SEPTEMBER

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Prairie Reader

Monday, October 17, 7:00 p.m.

Chad Lewis will take you on a ghostly journey to some of the most haunted places in Wisconsin. From phantom

creatures prowling the woods to grave-yard apparitions located in your own backyard, no place is without its own haunting. Complete with photos, case history, eyewitness accounts, ghost lore,

and directions, this unique presentation encourages you to visit these places for your own ghost story. Thank you to the Friends of the Ruth Culver Commu-nity Library for sponsoring this event. No registration is required. Contact Meagan at 643-8318 with questions.

Wisconsin’s Most Haunted Locations

Wednesday, October 26, 6:00 p.m.

Due to high demand we are offering a second ses-sion of this FREE young child CPR, choking and pe-diatric first aid class by a certified trainer from Pulse Check Plus. Please note, you will not get certi-fied, but you will gain an incredible amount of emergency knowledge. Space is limited, so please register at the library circulation desk. Contact Beth at 643-8318 with questions.

Young Child CPR, Choking & Pediatric First Aid

Halloween Treats

Tuesday, October 4, 6:30 p.m. Celebrate the holiday early and make sweet treats with a Halloween theme! Peanut butter and/or nuts will be present.

Building Challenge: Paper Roller Coasters

Tuesday, October 11, 6:30 p.m. We'll provide a variety of paper sup-plies; you come up with roller coaster

designs!

Teen Tuesdays are e s pe c i a l l y f o r grades 6-12. Con-tact Meagan at 643-8318 with ques-tions.

Teen Tuesdays

Early Release Wednesday:

Backyard Bats

Wednesday, October 19, 2:30 p.m.

Join Jennifer Redell of the DNR Bat Program and learn about backyard bats. We'll have crafts, snack, and LIVE bat ambassadors! This event is appropriate for children in grades K-5. Contact Beth with

questions.

Reptile Appreciation Day Thursday, October 27, 1:00 p.m.

Do you like snakes, turtles or geckos? Come to the library to enjoy these and more! We'll have many live reptiles and their owners who appreciate them and want to share with you. Event will also include a craft and snack. All are welcome but those 5 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Contact Beth at 643-8318 with questions.

Pizza & Pages Tuesday, October 25, 7:00 p.m.

Open to GRADES 9-12 ONLY! Eat pizza, hang out, and talk about books (or any topic you want!). Registration is appreciated. Contact Meagan with questions.

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 valua-ble pre-reading activities, develop life-long learners and socialize with other parents and caregivers at the same time!

No Babies October 14!

Bouncing Babies October Storytimes: It’s Fall, but That’s Not All!

Schedule:

Oct. 4, 6, 7 Squirrel Appreciation

Days!

Oct. 11, 13, 14 NO STORYTIME

Oct. 18, 20, 21 All about Bats!

Oct. 25, 27 28 Happy Halloween

Wear your costume if you’d like!

NEWS & NOTES

Register at the front desk

to read to Ladybug, a King Charles Cavalier Spaniel, on Wednesday, October 12. Appointments

of 15 minutes are available between 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.

Please save: clear glass jars with lids (8 oz. or smaller) for use at a teen event November 15 and toilet paper tubes for use at a children’s event.

The M&M Bookworms, a parent and child book club

for those reading at a 5th-8th grade level, will discuss All the Answers by Kate Messner Monday,

October 24 at 6:00 p.m. Copies are available on display in the library.

Aw, Nuts! written and illustrated by Rob McClurkan

In honor of all the animals we’re “appreciating” in October (reptiles Octo-ber 27 and squirrels in storytime), this is a

fun, interactive book about a squirrel. This squirrel is dili-gent and persis-tent in acquiring the perfect acorn. He re-

minds me of Scrat, a prehistoric squirrel from the Ice Age movies! Kids will help tell this story by repeating the phrase “Aw, nuts!” throughout the story. This is the be-ginning of PRINT AWARENESS, an early literacy skill where print is noticed and followed on the page.

Featured Children’s Book

We’re holding a presidential election in the library for kids! Beginning early Octo-ber, come to the children’s area to see who is running! They will be familiar book characters. Please vote! Ballots will be available and you can choose your favor-ite based on the qualifications posted, plus you can read their books! There will be 3 winners drawn from each candidate’s vot-ing bucket after the REAL Presidential election November 8. The winners will re-ceive their favorite candidate’s book ti-tled: _________ for President! There will also be information about elections and qualifications about what is needed to be a president and a book display.

Presidential Election for Kids

Monday, October 24, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Don’t miss the monthly Lego Building Club! 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! Duplos are available for younger children. However, chil-dren under 6 must be accompanied by an adult. Contact Beth at 643-8318 with questions.

Lego Building Club

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June’s Book Review

Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d by Alan Bradley

England 1955. After a misera-ble semester at a boarding school in Canada, Flavia de Luce is back home at her fami-ly’s crumbling mansion, Buck-shaw.

The precocious 12-year-old “detective” expected to be met at the train station by her fa-ther and two older sisters. However the person meeting

Flavia is the family retainer, Dogger. He has bad news. Her father is in the hospital with pneumonia.

Luckily she has stumbled upon yet another body to distract her. Now she has a mystery to solve. Flavia hops on her “trusty steed,” bicycle Gladys, and begins snooping around the village.

Flavia’s inner voice is wise and amusing. The characters are quirky and interesting.

Also in the series: The Sweetness at the Bottom

of the Pie The Weed that Strings the

Hangman’s Bag A Red Herring without Mus-

tard I Am Half-Sick of Shadows Speaking from Among the

Bones The Dead in Their Vaulted

Arches As Chimney Sweepers Come

to Dust

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Late one night, exploring her father’s

library, a young woman finds an ancient

book and a cache of yellowing letters all

addressed to “My dear and unfortunate

successor,” and they plunge her into a

world she never dreamed of—a laby-

rinth where the secrets of her father’s

past and her mother’s mysterious fate

connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in

the depths of history.

The letters provide links to one of the

darkest powers that humanity has ever

known—and to a centuries-long quest to

find the source of that darkness and wipe

it out. It is a quest for the truth about

Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler

whose barbarous reign formed the basis

of the legend of Dracula. Generations of

historians have risked their reputations,

their sanity, and even their

lives, to learn the truth about

Vlad the Impaler and Drac-

ula.

Now one young woman must

decide whether to take up

this quest herself—to follow

her father in a hunt that

nearly brought him to ruin

years ago, when he was a

vibrant young scholar and

her mother was still alive.

What does the legend of Vlad the Im-

paler have to do with the modern world?

Did the Dracula of myth truly exist—and

has he lived on? Parsing ob-

scure signs and hidden texts,

evading unknown adversaries

determined to conceal Vlad’s

ancient powers, one woman

learns the secret of her own past

as she confronts the very defini-

tion of evil. The Historian is al-

most unbearably suspenseful—

and utterly unforgettable.

--Summary from book description

Book of the Month

October is Family History Month, and we’re bringing in a scanning kit to help you get all your old family photos and documents scanned into electronic files. You can scan 25 4x6 photos in about 30 seconds!

We’ll have a Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 Dujplex Document Scanner, a Wolverine SNaP-14MP Film Scanner and a VuPoint Magic Wand (handheld scanner) availa-ble for drop-in use in the community room Wednesday, October 26 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Please bring a USB drive to save your files. Contact Meagan at 643-8318 with questions.

Thursday, October 13, 6:45 p.m.

The library’s Mystery Book Club will

discuss French mysteries in October.

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.

Mystery Book Club Quilt Raffle The Sauk Prairie Sewing and Quilting Friends have generously donated this beautiful “Country Cottages” quilt to the Friends of the Ruth C u l v e r Community Library. A raffle for the quilt and match-ing pillow (on display in the li-brary) runs t h r o u g h November 29. Tickets ($2.00 each or 3 for $5.00) are available at the library. Stop by the front desk and get yours today!

Scanning for Family History Month

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

Meagan Statz Assistant Director

Beth Hays Youth Services

At the Library in September

Thank you to Rauel and Elisabeth

LaBreche for their help organizing

the Star Trek 50th Anniver-sary celebra-tions held at the library in September!

Teens made snacks with grapes and projects with

emojis in September.

Paddington Bear visited storytimes and local schools!

The Culver’s Winter Reading Program is back! ALL ages may participate. Read 20

age-appropriate books to earn a SnackPak from the Sauk City Culver’s! Reading book-marks and details are available at the front

desk. Thank you to the Sauk City Culver’s for sponsoring this program.