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Hours:
Open 59 Hours Per Week
Monday - Thursday
9:30am-8:00pm
Friday
9:30am-5:00pm
Saturday
9:30-4:00pm
Sunday
1:00pm-4:00pm
Delafield Public Library: Serving You Since 1907
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6:00-8:00 Fourth Fridays -Special Zombie Survival, October 30 -Wii, November 19 -Grades 5 and Up -Please register at library website
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 Jean & Gale Volunteering At The Friends Book Sale
Friends Book Sale:
First Saturdays
9:00 to 1:00
Friends Book Shop
421 Main Street
(Lower Level In Back)
Downtown Delafield
For Friends Information
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Poke A Pumpkin: One More Day Through October 31
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Read To Our Gentle
Therapy Dogs
Kids Can Read To Drake
Saturday, November 14
OR Read To Molly In November
Please Call the Library to Schedule Your Appointment
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If you have a compliment about the Delafield Public Library, please email Jennifer at jklett@wcfls.lib.wi.us. We would love to feature you in an upcoming "Customer Compliments" feature of the News.
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Delafield Public Library the News
~Established February 2011
~Published Each Friday
~Email Subscription
~Circulation: 1340
Editor:
Jennifer Rude Klett
jklett@wcfls.lib.wi.us
Comments & Suggestions Welcome
Graphics:
Melissa Rader
Publisher:
Delafield Public Library
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October 30, 2015 - Published Every Friday
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Fifth Friday Focus:
Reading Aloud:
A Lifelong Joy
Reading aloud is undoubtedly one of the great gifts of life. Unfortunately, one recent study by the Charity Book Trust found parents are reading less to their children than previous generations. We highly encourage this memory-making, stress-busting pastime no matter how young (or old) you are.
"Reading aloud and sharing stories is a lost art and underrated experience that can't be replaced by a digital substitute all the time," said library staff member Diane Basting.
Here are seven sweet memories shared by the book-loving staff at the Delafield Public Library, followed by our top recommendations for reading aloud. We also included books we still fondly recall our parents and teachers reading to us when we were children. Don't miss out on this lifelong joy; the memories never die.
"Both my grandparents read books until they no longer could due to age. My grandfather volunteered many places after retirement and one was a library in Iowa. He volunteered there until he was no longer able. His eyes were too weak to read and fingers too gnarled to hold a book, so my mother read to him. I know it made him happy."
~Cass Hammel, Circulation/Processing/Page Coordinator
"My favorite book to read aloud is The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg. I have read it aloud dozens of times, to classes of children as well as my own girls. I have never been able to read it all the way through without crying. I can remember reading The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett to my daughter Emma, and doing all the different voices. It stands as Emma's favorite read aloud to this day."
~Jane Oliver Purton, Head of Youth Services
"I enjoyed when my mother read Where The Wild Things Are because I found it scary, and I liked her being next to me as we looked at the pictures."
~Emi Weiss, Adult Services/Circulation
"The strongest read aloud book memory I have was The Hound Of The Baskervilles. Dad read it to me at bedtime when I was six, and I have been hooked on Sherlock Holmes ever since. To this day, reading, listening, or watching this story is very comforting."
~Diane Basting, Head of Technical Services/Gaming/Cataloging
"Reading aloud provides the chance to snuggle with your children, read and talk about wonderful stories together, and make funny animal noises. It builds memories that last a lifetime, a quiet and stress-free pastime."
~Terry Zignego, Library Director
"As an adult, we don't often have the opportunity to be read to, except when listening to audio books. It's such a treat to be entertained as an adult with a great story,"
~Pat Plamann, Business Manager
"I enjoyed reading stories aloud to my kids and now to the storytime kids because I can let my 'drama mama' out without having to memorize lines. As an adult, I enjoy listening to audio books with characters from other countries so I can hear the accents the narrators use."
~Judy Becker, Youth Services Assistant
Favorite Books Read To Us Aloud:
1. The Gingerbread Man, Karen Schmidt
2. Pantaloon, Kathryn Jackson
3. The Arthur series, Marc Brown
4. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
5. Mr. Putter and Tabby series, Cynthia Rylant
6. The Great Steamboat Mystery, Richard Scarry
7. Where The Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
8. The Story About Ping, Majorie Flack
9. The Little Engine That Could, Watty Piper
10. The Marvelous Monster, Carolyn Joyce
11. Make Way For Ducklings, Robert McCloskey
12. The Sneetches and Other Stories, Dr. Seuss
Favorite Books We Like To Read Aloud:
1. Caps For Sale, Esther Slobodkina
2. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown
3. Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling
4. The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg
5. Home For A Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown
6. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Bill Martin Jr.
7. Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus!, Mo Willems
8. The Tale Of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
9. Pat The Bunny, Dorothy Kunhardt
10. Pig WIll And Pig Won't, Richard Scarry
11. The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams
12. King Bidgood's In The Bathtub, Audrey Wood
Fifth Friday Focus is the News' in-depth focus featured in months with five Fridays. If you have a library topic you would like to know more about, please email editor Jennifer at jklett@wcfls.lib.wi.us.
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