REGISTER 3 WAYS: Website: www.woodstockpubliclibrary.org Phone: 815.338.0542 In Person: 414 W. Judd St. Woodstock, IL SUMMER 2017 / MAY-AUGUST = Registration Required Kid Programs beginning Tuesday, May 30 Adult Programs beginning Monday, May 8 = Discover what’s new at the Library! BOOK CLUB SAMPLER AT THE GENERAL STORE Take a drive to scenic Greenwood, or if you live in the country, we’re coming WIZARDING WORLD OF to you! Various staff members will WOODSTOCK be facilitating this adult book club which will Dust off your dress robes and grab your best Quidditch broom! To offer an eclectic selection of titles. Get a taste of celebrate 20 years of Harry Potter, the library is teaming up with the what types of materials the library has to offer and enjoy tasty City of Woodstock for a magical event on the square! treats at the General Store in Greenwood (4409 Greenwood Road). Day/Date: Thursday/July 27 Books will be available at the front desk at the library about a month Time: 4:00-8:00 p.m. in advance of each meeting. Ages: All ages Days/Dates: Mondays/June 26, July 24, August 28 Time: 6:30-7:45 p.m. ALL ABOARD – HOGWARTS EXPRESS GARDEN RAILROAD Our friends’ garden railroad gets magical this SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR summer! As part of the Wizarding World of Library staff, along with the Noon Rotary Club of Woodstock, Woodstock, the railroad will be open to visitors will host a Scholastic Book Fair this summer. Proceeds will benefit before the event. Directions available at the library. Woodstock’s Christmas Clearing Day/Date: Thursday/July 27 House. In addition to your personal Time: 1:00-4:00 purchases, we will also be accepting Ages: All ages book and monetary donations to reach our goal of providing a book DUMBLEDORE’S ARMY: for every child on the Clearing WOODSTOCK DIVISION House list. The sale will run during Miss Mary needs volunteers this summer for our magical Harry Potter regular library hours. event. Come to an informational meeting and sign your name to the Days/Dates: Monday/June 5 - parchment. We promise it’s not enchanted! Friday/June 9 Day/Date: Saturday/May 13 Time: 1:00 p.m. Ages: Ages 12 & up POP-UP LIBRARY IN WONDER LAKE! Greenwood Elementary School: 4618 Greenwood Rd., Woodstock, IL. WOODSTOCK The library comes to you this summer! PUBLIC Come once or join us every week. We’ll share great stories, crafts, and have lots LIBRARY’S of fun. Return and request materials, sign up for a library card, join the Summer SUMMER Reading Program and claim prizes, find new books, and enjoy creative programs, MADNESS! crafts and family fun! This summer the staff of the Ages: All ages Woodstock Public Library Day/Date: Thursdays/June 8-July 27 has selected a mix of books Time: 1:00-3:00 p.m. and pitted them against each other in a bracket showdown. Adults, teens and children can fill out and submit brackets GENERAL STORE-Y TIME ahead of time. Players with the bracket that most closely We’re bringing storytime to the General Store in Greenwood! (4409 forecasts the outcomes of the book match-ups will win a gift Greenwood Road) Come for stories, crafts and silliness you won’t want to miss. card. Vote for your favorites each round to help select the Day/Date: Mondays/June 12, July 10 winner! Complete details available in June. Time: 6:30 p.m. Ages: 4 years and up REGISTER 3 WAYS: Website: www.woodstockpubliclibrary.org 2 Phone: 815.338.0542 In Person: 414 W. Judd St. Woodstock, IL CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS SUMMER STORYTIME AT READING THE LIBRARY PROGRAM: CUENTOS EN ESPAÑOL— SPANISH-LANGUAGE READING STORYTIME FAMILY STORYTIME Families who speak or are learning to speak Families with children of all ages BY DESIGN! Spanish can enjoy stories, crafts, and songs welcome! This summer we’re at our Spanish-language storytime. This Ages: All ages creating, inventing, program is conducted entirely in Spanish. Day/Date: Wednesdays/ June 7-July 26 constructing, and more as Ages: 2 years old and up Time: 11:00 a.m. we study design! Read for Day/Date: Mondays/June 5-July 24 fun and prizes and join us Time: 6:30 p.m. for special events! BABIES AND BOOKS DROP-IN STORYTIME HOW IT WORKS: STORYTIME Pop by for stories, crafts and fun. Record the time you read and bring your log to the children’s desk Babies and caregivers will share books, Open to all! to collect prizes! songs, activities, and playtime during each Ages: All ages lap-sit program. Day/Date: Fridays/June 9-July 28 Prize Choices: prize of the week, an item from the random prize Ages: 6 to 23 months Time: 10:30-11:00 a.m. box, or raffle tickets. Day/Date: Tuesdays/June 6-July 25 • 3 hours of reading=one prize Time: 10:30 a.m. FARMER’S MARKET • 12 hours of reading=a free book as a prize! STORYTIME • Limit 3 prizes per day–anything beyond 3 prizes CHILDSPACE A summer favorite! Miss Mary will be is raffle tickets STORYTIME at the Woodstock Farmer’s Market for Ages: 2 years – Grade 5 Join us for stories, songs, and crafts! This stories, songs and terrible jokes. Read Registration Opens: Tuesday, May 30 group provides an opportunity for children Between the Lynes is our backup location (first day you can pick up your reading log) to meet and make new friends. for bad weather. Ages: 2-3 years old Ages: All ages Summer Reading Program Dates: Day/Date: Wednesdays/June 7-July 26 Day/Date: Tuesdays/ June 6-July 25 Tuesday, May 30 - Monday July 31 Time: 10:00 a.m. Time: Noon-1:00 p.m. Prizes Begin: Monday/June 5 Prizes End: Monday/July 31 TINKER TUESDAYS CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS Every week focuses on a different SUMMER READING KICKOFF EVENT – type of design and features crafts, READ, DESIGN, SUCCEED WITH CHRIS stories and activities that relate to design. DESIGN AND MCBRIEN We’ll be doing a lot of tinkering, so bring DISCOVER Chris McBrien, the Magic Storyteller, is coming to kick off the Summer your creative brains! Discover different Reading Program! Chris has a fun program featuring reading, math, Day/Date: Tuesdays/June 6-July 25 types of design through stories and science, and PUPPETS! Registration required. Visit our website Time: 3:00-4:00 p.m. crafts! We’ll paint, build, draw, and and click “Calendar” to register for either the afternoon or Ages: Grades 3-5 create all kinds of things as we focus evening presentation of this program. on new ideas each week. Day/Date: Monday/June 5 Day/Date: Fridays/June 9-July 28 Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m. Time: 3:00-4:00 p.m. 7:00-8:00 p.m. Ages: Grades 1-2 Ages: 2 and up; Fun for the family! = Registration Required Kid Programs beginning Tuesday, May 30 Adult Programs beginning Monday, May 8 3 SUMMER 2017 / May-August CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS FRIDAY FUN DAY YOUNG ADULT SUMMER What fun, do-it-yourself activity will Miss GIRL SCOUTS Mary have in the Children’s Department STORYTIME READING PROGRAM every week? Only one way to find out! Join the Girl Scouts for a fun storytime Readers entering grades 6-12 can register at the young adult Day/Date: Fridays program. Enjoy stories and activities reference desk beginning Tuesday, May 30. All Day Time: and learn how fun it is to be a Girl Scout! Register and receive a reading log. For every 3 hours read, teens Ages: All ages Day/Date: Tuesdays/June 13, can choose a lollipop - different colors on the sticks earn different July 11, August 1 prizes–or a raffle ticket for a chance to win the weekly and grand Time: 6:30 p.m. prize drawings. CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS Ages: 4 years and up Limit 3 prizes (9 hours) per day–anything beyond 3 prizes is raffle tickets AT CLASSIC CINEMAS Your favorite silly YA WEDNESDAYS superhero jumps from the Everything around us is some type of design! Each week page to the big screen we’ll be learning about something different. We’ll have crafts this June! The first 50 1,000 BOOKS BEFORE and activities with: children or young adults KINDERGARTEN • Yarn • Jewelry to read at least 6 hours Encourage literacy, expand vocabulary, • Paint • Monograms for the Summer Reading bond with your little ones and have fun with • Technology • And more! Program get a free ticket. Adults and other this nation-wide reading challenge! The time Day/Date: Wednesdays/June 7-July 26 young readers can purchase discounted you read counts for Summer Reading too. Time: 3:00-4:30 tickets at the theater. Ages: Birth-kindergarten Ages: Grades 6-12 Day/Date: Saturday/June 10 Time: 10:00 a.m. Ages: Ages 5 and up BOOKMARK CONTEST Design a bookmark around this idea: “The Best Thing About Reading Is…” Winners LEGO NIGHTS will be chosen from the following categories: Big and little builders create their own Kindergarten-Grade 2, Grades 3-5, Grades designs with our Legos and Duplos! 6-8, Grades 9-12. Winning illustrations will be YA KICK-OFF EVENT: Day/Date: Thursdays/June 22 turned into library bookmarks! HANDWRITING ANALYSIS and July 13 Day/Date: Contest open from WITH CHRIS MCBRIEN Time: 6:30-7:30 p.m. May 30-July 31 What does your handwriting say about you? Chris McBrien Ages: Ages 2 and up Ages: Kindergarten–Grade 12 will astonish you with the character traits he can see in your writing! He will also teach you a basic method to start you out in doing some handwriting analysis of your own.