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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