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Help your child keep up
A love of books can be a lifelong ticket to success |
 Tutoring services like Sylvan Learning Center want to charge you big bucks to ensure that your children don't "lose" what they've learned during the course of the school year. While tutors have their place, it may not be necessary to hire one to keep your kid from forgetting his last month of third grade. Study after study shows that children who read during the summer perform better in school come the fall than those who don't. What's more:
- Students who don't read over the summer DO demonstrate academic loss when they return to school
- Eight out of ten studies show that students who read for fun outperform those who don't
- Students read more when they can choose their own books
- Reading just five books over the summer can prevent academic loss
- Summer reading loss is cumulative. By the end of sixth grade, children who do not read over the summer are two years behind other children
Given that, a much more budget-friendly strategy for keeping your  children up to par academically involves a simple (and free!) solution: bring them to the library! Let them choose their own material, be it a graphic novel, fiction, nonfiction, or a magazine! Pick up an audiobook to listen to during long summer car trips. Let your kids participate in or volunteer for the Summer Reading Program, where they can learn and create while having fun with their friends. This is where libraries come in. This is one of the many reasons libraries should be around forever (if we know what's good for us). As Dr. James Maccaferri of Clarion University said:
Libraries are part of society's educational infrastructure. Libraries provide services and programs, including information literacy instruction, to encourage and support users to become more effective searchers and users of information in all its forms. |
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A brilliant writer, but also a great reader  Ray Bradbury's books are still required reading in many high school and college courses (they're the ones the students actually enjoy).
Bradbury himself, however, was a skeptic when it came to formal education. In fact, he once claimed to owe his success as a writer to never having gone to college. What he did do was read. He described his own passion for books in his 1971 essay How Instead of Being Educated in College, I was Graduated from Libraries. Unlike some of his perhaps more scholarly counterparts, Bradbury brought science fiction into the mainstream by ditching the technical lingo and delving instead into concepts that pitted science and technology against civilization. He was, of course, a genius, school or no school. And a testament to the power of a good book (or hundreds of them)...which in this case inspired one of the greatest writers of our time. |
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Coming up at the Wallkill Public Library  Please note that there will be no Story Times Tuesday or Friday - Miss Carolyn will be busy visiting our friends at Ostrander! Wednesday: Toddler Story Time meets at 10:30 a.m., followed by Book Buddies at 1 p.m. Early Bird Registration for Summer Reading Program events is from 3-7 p.m. in the Children's Room Thursday: Early Bird Registration for Summer Reading Program events takes place from 3-6:30 p.m. in the Children's Room. The Knit/Crochet Club meets at 6:30 p.m.
Ongoing Registration forms for the Summer Reading Program are at the circulation desk. Bakers, get ready to pull out your favorite recipes for the Brownie Baking Contest set for June 26 during the Summer Reading Kick-off Event! The three categories judged will be Old-Fashioned Chocolate Brownie, Non-Chocolate Brownie, and Specialty Brownie. Drawing classes will be offered each Wednesday from June 27 through July 25 (with the exception of July 4) from 6-7:30 p.m. Ages 11 and up are invited to learn the basics of cartooning (including Anime and sketch) with Wallkill River School instructor Rudy Troncone. Cost is $50. Sign up now! Renegade tickets are going fast. Buy yours soon at the front desk or by visiting GadesGroups.com and entering the password wallpl. For $15 you get to participate in the June 30 Geek the Library Night, which includes the evening game, fireworks, and a hat! Thanks to all who participated in Operation Gratitude this year! Your contributions are the most important portions of the care packages that go out to the servicemembers and wounded warriors as part of this wonderful program! |
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Lego Camp for grades 3 through 5 full!  The afternoon session for this summer's July 9 through July 13 Lego Camp is full. Thanks to all who signed up!
There's still room for the 9 a.m. to noon session, which is geared toward grades kindergarten through 2. Participants will apply real-world concepts from physics, engineering, and architecture to various Lego projects with the guidance of experienced instructors from Play-Well Teknologies. Cost is $120. Register now at the library - space is limited! |
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What DVDs do your children watch?  The Wallkill Public Library is updating our children's DVD collection, and we want to know what your kids are watching!
Please email your suggestions to mlcarolan@rcls.org, call us at 895-3707 and leave a message, or tell a library staffer. The first 10 suggestions win! |
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Have you seen our new magazines? Thanks to all who took the time to fill out our survey this year. Your input is important to us!
While the results of the survey are still being tallied, one response that stuck out had to do with our magazine collection. Apparently a lot of patrons were unaware we have one!
Our collection is displayed via two vertical wall racks located between the fiction and computer/nonfiction room. We've recently expanded our material to include such popular periodicals as:
- Cosmopolitan
- Vogue
- Family Circle
- Golf Digest
We've also recently begun receiving the Wall Street Journal! Though our newspapers must remain in the building, you can check out the magazine(s) of your choice at any time.
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Local writer seeks support for film  Sullivan County author Kelly Going's Printz Honor book Fat Kid Rules the World has been made into a movie! The book (for ages 10 and up) centers around the unlikely friendship of the nearly 300-pound Troy and the charismatic punk rocker/homeless kid/dropout Curt. Going (who's the daughter of longtime WPL children's coordinator, Linda Going) and the book's filmmakers are using a program called Kickstarter, which is a funding platform for creative projects to raise money for the promotion of the movie to ensure that word gets out about it (since sometimes indies like Fat Kid get overlooked in the mainstream market). Going and her team are trying to raise $150,000 by June 16. You can pledge any amount, from $1 on up. Support our local artists and the arts themselves by visiting Kickstarter today! |
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Historical society tea postponed The Historical Society of Shawangunk and Gardiner's second annual tea, originally scheduled for this Saturday, has been postponed until the fall. The date will be announced at a later time. |
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Website takes craziness out of travel 
If you're looking for a great getaway, air fare, or just a night out on Broadway, Travelzoo is worth a peak. There you'll find packages, special offers, and suggestions on specific destinations (be it for a vacation or just a daylong excursion).
Travelzoo touts itself as "the most trusted publisher of travel, entertainment and local deals."
The site has more than 25 million subscribers, making it the largest publisher of travel and entertainment deals on the Internet. Take a look next time you're planning a trip! |
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Riches become a 'burden' in debut novel
A Small Fortune, by Rosie Dastgir
 Harris, the presumed patriarch of his large extended family in both England and Pakistan, has unexpectedly received a "small fortune" from his divorce settlement with an English woman: £53,000. As a devout Muslim, Harris views this sum as a "burden of riches" that he must unload on someone else as quickly as possible. But deciding which relative to give it to proves to be a burden of its own, and soon he has promised it both to his extremely poor cousins in Pakistan and to his Westernized, college-student daughter. Then, in a rash bout of guilt and misunderstanding, Harris signs the entire sum away to the least deserving, most prosperous cousin of all. This solves none of his problems and creates many more, exacerbating a tricky web of familial debt and obligation on two sides of the world, until the younger generation steps in to help.
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They'll all geek your photo at the game!
 You can be featured not only on the library's website, but on the TV and the large field screen at Dutchess Stadium! Come to the library from 2-4 p.m. Tuesday, June 12, or from 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, June 14. Wear a black shirt or dark color and bring whatever you GEEK, if you can (i.e., a tennis racket, violin, etc.) - we'll take your picture for free and use it as part of our Geek the Library campaign.
Questions? Call us at 895-3707.
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