August 2024 at Shorewood Public Library | |
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Summer Reading
Challenges End
August marks the end of our 2024 Summer Reading Challenges for Children, Teens, and Adults!
Friday, August 23rd will be the last day to stop in at the library to submit your reading and activity completions for any prizes you've earned for participating in Summer Reading Challenges. Stop by one of our Information Desks to submit your challenges and pick up prizes!
We've had a wonderful summer full of adventure, learning and growing! We have lots of fun library programs in August to wrap up summer and get ready for fall - see you at the library as summer winds down!
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Pint Sized Polkas
On Tuesday, August 6th from 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM we'll host a Terrific Tuesday family performance by Wisconsin Schneider!
It’s no secret that polka music is the happiest form of music on the face of the earth. Meet us in the Village Center Meeting Room to join Wisconsin Schneider on an adventure in music, magic, and family-friendly humor!
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Art Studio Truck with AWE
Join us Tuesday, August 20th at 1:30 PM for an art- filled afternoon!
AWE’s Truck Studio will be here on the Murray Avenue Lawn (outside the library) offering free drop-in arts enrichment activities with a dedicated team of teaching artists who activate parks, libraries, and other public spaces with engaging hands-on art experiences for youth and their caregivers.
No registration is required for Terrific Tuesday programs.
Terrific Tuesdays are funded by the Friends of the Shorewood Public Library.
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Furry Fridays
Celebrate the Dog Days of summer with Furry Fridays!
Stop in and meet a therapy dog! You'll be "paws-itively" glad you did! 🐶
Drop-in any time between 1:30 PM and 2:30 PM on Friday, August 9th in the Library Program Room.
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Family Fun: STEM Night
Join us for an evening of STEM activities for the whole family on Thursday, August 8th in the Library Program Room.
Try your hand at mini-science projects and learn about new technologies!
This is a drop-in program, so feel free to stop by anytime between 3:30 PM and 5:00 PM.
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NEW Nintendo Switch Games
Shorewood Public Library now has Nintendo Switch games for checkout! The games are located above YA New Graphic Novels, they check out for one week, and like all of our other 7 Day items, they can be renewed twice as long as there are no holds on the title. When you pick out a game case, come to the front desk so a library staff member can give you the matching game cartridge for checkout. Happy Gaming!
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Teen Summer Take & Make
We have Take & Make kits for Teens this summer!
Teens can stop by the library every other Tuesday in August to pick up a Take & Make kit with all supplies included for a fun craft ✨
- 8/6: Folded Zines
- 8/20: Potion Bottle Necklace
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Shorewood Public Library
Staff Spotlight
Meet Kayla, Community and Adult Services Librarian at Shorewood Public Library.
Kayla's favorite things about working at the library are meeting new people, building relationships, and having the opportunity to tailor peoples' library experiences through collections, programming, fun displays, or simply sharing a smile. Kayla also appreciates her awesome co-workers at the library and looks forward to working every day knowing she is coming to work with people who bring her joy!
Kayla's favorite hobbies are reading (especially horror), writing, photography, and she is an outdoors enthusiast.
Say hi the next time you see Kayla at the library!
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Summer Celebration 🎉
Our Summer Celebration on July 25th was a super fun evening filled with community, creativity, games, and delicious summer treats. We celebrated the best of summer with friends and neighbors, and boogied down to the music of DJ Kid Boogie Down! We raced with the Racing Sausages, and explored Shorewood on trolley rides.
Thank you to everyone who came and celebrated, to the Friends of the Shorewood Public Library for your time and talents, and to the volunteers who helped make the celebration a success!
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Release of the Monarchs
We had a wonderful time learning about the monarch life cycle and observing the monarchs in our live display in the Children's Room in July. When the monarchs emerged from their chrysalises, they were released outside the library with the help of kids and families excited to watch as the monarchs flew away 🦋
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See all of our upcoming August programs in our online event calendar! You can filter by age group, view events in a list format, or do a keyword search to find a specific event you're looking for.
Click a button below for all August events by age group:
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August's PM Book Club fiction pick, Zero Days by Ruth Ware, is an adrenaline-fueled thriller that combines Mr. and Mrs. Smith with The Fugitive. Join the conversation on Wednesday, August 7th at 7:00 PM. | |  |
August's AM Book Club fiction pick is a historical novel set in 1914 Vienna. Check out The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason, and join the conversation on Thursday, August 15th at 11:00 AM.
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Summer Sunday
Library Hours
The library is closed on Sundays in the summer from June through August 2024. The library will again be open for Sunday service on September 8th, 2024
The library will be open in the summer for regular hours on all other days.
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In celebration of our monarch butterfly release and live lifecycle display, we're reading books that have transformed us, taught valuable life lessons, or changed our lives. 🦋 Check them out at the library: | |
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Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
"Set in a 2050s Oxford University where time travel has been invented but is only useful for studying the past, this story is split between past and future. In the past, Kivrin Engle, a time-traveling historian, is stuck in the Middle Ages while trying to research the Black Plague. In the 2050s, her advisor, Dunworthy, is equally stuck looking after his friend's teenage nephew while Oxford is under quarantine due to an outbreak of the flu. This novel is extremely well-researched and brings both the medieval world and the near-future vividly to life. I read it first about ten years ago and then again at the start of the pandemic, and I found it to be eerily prescient, surprisingly hopeful, and heartbreakingly human. It's a great book, anyway, but particularly I would say that it was helpful in helping me process my grief over COVID." --- Recommended by QUINN
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Above Ground by Clint Smith
Recommended by CAROLYN, who notes this author in particular has "provided very poignant thinking for (her) on our history of slavery in the US and what it means to be Black in America" and that the author "writes about being a southern Black man, about growing up in New Orleans specifically, about family, about loss."
Carolyn also notes: "Since I am from the "cradle" of American slavery—state of Virginia and also grew up 10 miles from the place where the first slave ship landed--and have 3 degrees from Mr. Jefferson's university, I feel a special pain about this past history and my home and so many things I never truly knew or thought enough about. I am grateful for his research and his voice. I've even begun to read more poetry as a result and am planning a visit to a former plantation site in New Orleans to experience what he describes."
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Survivor Song
by Paul Tremblay
Recommended by KAYLA, who notes in this book "a realistic, rabies-like virus has outbroken, and a woman named Natalie is exposed to the virus and seeks help from her doctor friend Ramola in order to try and save her and her unborn baby's life" and while it can be a devastating read, this book has reminded her of just how precious, and how fragile, our lives are. Kayla also notes: "The connections we have with other people, in the end, are everything, and because of this book I will always hold this value close!"
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
In this book Bill Bryson explores the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer and attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world's most profound scientific minds, living and dead. This book is recommended by KATE, who says it really changed the way she thinks about science. By exploring the history behind the discoveries that shaped our world, it showed her a new way to connect with the world around her.
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Notes of a Crocodile
by Qiu Miaojin
Recommended by BEN, who notes this book is "about a girl attending an elite university in Taipei, sort of meandering about her time falling for people she shouldn’t and questioning every sense and understanding she’s had of her sexuality and the gender constructs around her. It’s more than that though too, as it is mostly a very heavy and tender story of love." Ben also says this book found him at a perfect time in his life and acted as a salve - he recommends it to everyone he meets!
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SHOREWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY
3920 North Murray Avenue
Shorewood, WI 53211
414 847-2670
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