Summer Reading 2011
"Around the World at Musser Library"
Woop! Woop! It looks like the real, actual, hot air balloon WILL be going up on Tuesday, July 26 at 6 pm, at Discovery Park Environmental Learning Center! Be there with us to watch Froggy take flight over Muscatine!!!!!!
Travel round the world this summer through books, stories, programs, education, and just plain fun with Musser Library's Summer Reading Program. We will be highlighting one continent each week!
Summer Reading is generously co-sponsored by Friends of the Musser Library and Central State Bank!
Please join us for any of the following programs:
For all ages... Tuesdays at 10:30 am and 1:30 pm (unless times are otherwise noted).
Tuesday, June 14.... Antarctica: Drop in to make a penguin card for IPTV Kids' Club host Dan Wardell, who will be coming to Muscatine that evening at 5 pm, at the Environmental Learning Center at Discovery Park. This event is sponsored by Central State Bank. Weather permitting, we will launch Dan Wardell in an actual hot air balloon after his storytime session!!!!! Yes, really... as long as weather permits. And we will celebrate the icy continent of Antarctica with a snow cone machine.
Tuesday, June 21... Europe: Jason Dornbush from the Waterloo Grout Museum will be presenting fun science info and activities on some of the famous European scientists. Jason is the Muscatine native who has visited from the museum in past summers, lighting bubbles on fire, frying pickles on electrical wires, and showing off his potato gun. Goodness knows what he'll do this time... we can't wait to find out.
Tuesday, June 28... Asia: Enjoy a classical Indian dance presentation by Shweta Sarin and a children's Indian dance troupe from Iowa City.
Tuesday, July 5... Africa: An African fashion show! Details to be announced.
Tuesday, July 12... Australia: Australian picture story theater with storyteller DeAnne Wortman.
Tuesday, July 19... North America: Audrey from the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines will visit with some of the animals native to our own continent including a corn snake, a screech owl, and (if he's feeling fine and in a good mood) a baby alligator. This program will be held at 10:30 am and then at 1 pm instead of the usual 1:30. This is to help the live animals hold up better and be back on the road sooner.
Tuesday, July 26... Summer Reading Finale! What wild and crazy thing are we doing this year if 15,000 books get read? Well, we're actually not sure yet. But we can guarantee you will have a good time.
For Preschoolers... Thursdays at 10:30 am in the library upstairs meeting room
Thursday, June 9... South American stories with Ottumwa storyteller Dr. Jackie Thompson.
Thursday, June 16... Penguin stories (to go along with this week's theme of Antarctica).
Thursday, June 23... European folk and fairy tales.
Thursday, June 30... Stories from India and China.
Thursday, July 7... Stories from Africa.
Thursday, July 14... Stories from Australia.
Thursday, July 21... Native American Tales.
For Families... Thursday evenings at 6:30 pm in the library upstairs meeting room. This year our family storytimes, which are usually located at different spots around town, will be held in the library's upstairs meeting room and will concentrate on food from the different continents! Don't count on us for an entire meal, but be prepared to sample something interesting from each week's continent.
Thursday, June 9... South America
Thursday, June 16... Antarctica
Thursday, June 23... Europe
Thursday, June 30... Asia
Thursday, July 7... Africa
Thursday, July 14... Australia
Thursday, July 21... North America
For Babies, ages birth to 3 years
O Baby Lapsit will continue to meet throughout June and July, each Monday morning at 9:30 am and 10:30 am. To attend the 9:30 session, which takes place before the library opens, please come to the front door of the library and we will let you in. Lapsit also meets on Wed. evenings at 6:30 pm. Looking forward to seeing you and your children!
Summer Reading is over for 2010, but keep an eye on this space for details about Summer Reading 2011. Do you "know what you did last summer?" Scroll down to recall.
Make a Splash
With the Olympians
Musser Library Summer Reading 2010
Summer Reading is generously co-sponsored by
The Friends of the Musser Library and
Central State Bank
Keep scrolling down to find programs for the age group you need;
also, an explanation of how to earn prizes for reading will be found at the bottom.
Tuesdays in June & July, for all ages…
June 8 at 10:30 am… The Bassmeister starts off Summer Reading with comedy fishing fun.
June 15 at 10:30 am and 1:30 pm…
Medusa Hats Craft Day—make a snake hat to turn yourself into the Greek monster Medusa.
June 22 at 10:30 am and 1:30 pm…
The Waterloo Grout Museum brings a bubblicious “Bubble Demo.”
June 29 at 10:30 am and 1:30 pm…
“Battle of the Cakes.” Watch teams of teens compete onstage to decorate cakes Greek-mythology style.
July 6 at 10:30 am and 1:30 pm…
“Wet and Wild Water Experiments” with the Waterloo Grout Museum
July 13 at 1 pm and 2 pm…
Dan Wardell of Iowa Public Television brings his Reading Road Trip to Muscatine
July 20 at 10:30 and 1:30 pm…
“Indiana Bones” battles the monsters of the deep in this action-packed performance.
July 27 from 11-2 pm… Challenge Day… read 15,000 books collectively and we’ll turn the library into Mt. Olympus! Drop in between 11 and 2 to take part in this mythological party!
Preschool Storytimes for ages 3-5
Thursday mornings at 10:30 am
June 10… Stormchasers! Tornado safety with stormchaser Eddy Weiss
June 17… Snakes! A very reptilian storytime with Betty
June 24… Frog Princes and Princesses with Julie and the Pink Poodle of downtown Muscatine
July 1… Indoor Picnic stories with Betty
July 8… Sea Monsters stories with Julie
July 15… For the Birds with Betty and some feathered friends
July 22… Water Safety with Kevin Zidarich
Storytimes-On-The-Town for all ages
Thursday evenings at 6:30 pm
Meet directly at the following locations:
June 10… at the Musser Library for Stormchasers!
June 17… at the Discovery Park Nature Center
June 24… at the Riverside Park Fountain
July 1… at the former Weed Mansion, 1124 Oakland Dr.
July 8… at the Lagoon Shelter, by the Weed Park Duck Pond
(hear Laura Juszcyk and Linda Kelty read their book Bellbina, Queen of Weed Park)
July 15… at the Muscatine Art Center
July 22… at the former Bellevue Mansion, 205 Cherry St.
Oh Baby Lapsit for ages 0-3
Will continue through the summer
On Monday mornings at 9:30 and 10:30
And Wednesday evenings at 6:30.
We spend 20 minutes each session engaging in language-building activities such as songs, fingerplays, and the shortest of stories. Then we bring out age-appropriate toys and allow time for children and adults to play and socialize.
Check out these new videos talking about this year's Summer Reading program with Betty and our new Children's Library Assistant, Julie Lear.
How Summer Reading Works: Read or listen to at least one book per week. Come into the library each week and write down your name, contact info, and the name of the book you read on an entry form, and give it to a librarian. This earns you one small prize per week, plus enters you in a weekly drawing for extra prizes. Two different times during the summer, the weekly prize will be a brand new paperback book, provided by Central State Bank.
Children reading on their own may enter each time they read a book. Children who listen to books may enter once per week.
For children reading chapter books, you may count each 100 pages as a “book”. For example, if you read Lois Lowry’s book The Giver, with 179 pages, you may fill out one slip for the first 100 pages and one slip for the last 79. This makes the weekly drawing more fair.
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