Register for SRP Monday! 
Ostrander Elementary students had a ball Wednesday when Wallkill Public Library staff visited to talk up the SRP.
Those who would like to participate in this season's Summer Reading Program can sign up beginning 10 a.m. Monday - and the good news is that this year, you don't have to leave home to do so!
Registration and book-logging will be entirely online this year, but don't let that intimidate you - it will also be easier than ever before.
Starting Monday, all you have to do is visit the Wallkill Public Library's homepage, where the SRP registration instructions will be front and center. Follow the prompts and you'll be ready to go! As an added bonus, once you're registered for the SRP, you'll be able to use your password throughout the summer program to log your books, via the same portal, beginning June 30 (when the SRP kicks off).
Mrs. Scofield horses around with students during the library's visit - she was a great sport!
Remember that signing up for the SRP allows you access to all the great programming we have in store for participants throughout the summer. Registration for those individual programs will be open beginning June 22, and will be done through the website's calendar or here at the library. For programs with space restrictions, participants will be taken on a first-come, first-served  basis, with those who live in the town of Shawangunk, Wallkill Central School District given priority. We will notify those who made it in to a program before it closed out.
We know this is a lot of information to absorb, and it's new to some of us, too, but we're sure in the end it will make the SRP an even more enjoyable experience than ever before!
Coming up at the Wallkill Public Library
Monday: Registration for the Summer Reading Program begins at 10 a.m.!
Tuesday: Textile Tuesday/Quilters' Circle takes place between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the community room of Town Hall. Sewing machines are available for those who need them.
Wednesday: The last Toddler Story Time of the season takes place at 10 a.m. and again at 11:15 a.m. The Vision of Wallkill community improvement group will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the community room of Town Hall.
Thursday: The Knit and Crochet Club meets at 6:30 p.m.
Supplies for new Quilt Block revealed
For those participating in the Mystery Quilt Block Challenge, it's time to prepare for the second block!
The Quilters' Circle's project will reveal a new block each month and offer instructions and a tutorial on how to replicate it. Once all the blocks are complete, a 36-inch square sampler will be created.
Five different fabrics are required for the June square. They can be cut out during the next Quilters' Circle meeting or at home into these pieces:
  • 5- 4 1/2 X 4 1/2 squares
  • 2- 2 1/2 X 4 1/2 rectangles
  • 4- 2 1/2 X 8 1/2 rectangles
  • 2-2 1/2 X 12 1/2 rectangles

The design of the block will be unveiled at the next Quilters' Circle meeting, which is 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 17, in the community room of Town Hall.
Amulet, Mr. Terupt now at the library!
Amulet fans braved the rainy weather Tuesday to come down for a visit to the library!
Ostrander Elementary's fifth-grade students took a field trip to the library Tuesday to share their love of all things Amulet!
The class listened to an online interview with Kazu Kibuishi, the author of the wildly popular graphic novel series, then discussed the books and some readalikes with program creators Carolyn Thorenz and Lori Mullooly. After crafting amulets of their own, the kids took out as many books as they could carry on their trek back up to Ostrander.
If you, too, are an Amulet fan, you'll be glad to know the library now has the complete series, as well as the fifth-graders' other sought-after picks, Mr. Terupt Falls Again and Because of Mr. Terupt.
Much thanks to Mrs. Lundgren and the other fifth-grade teachers  for inspiring such a love of books in their kids!
Book club has Genova on the brain
Wallkill Public Library's Fiction Club met Thursday to discuss their most recent selections, Still Alice and Left Neglected.
Both books are by neuroscientist Lisa Genova, and both tell the tale of fictional characters adjusting to a brain disease or injury (early onset Alzheimer's in the case of Still Alice, and a traumatic injury in Left Neglected). The group enjoyed the books so much, their next pick is another Genova book, Love Anthony, about a boy with autism.
Genova's latest release, Inside the O'Briens, features a main character who discovers he has Huntington's disease, a degenerative disorder that's described as a combination of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's in that it not only robs its victims of motor control, but leads to dementia, as well. Though Inside the O'Briens follows the formula of Still Alice almost to the letter (main character suffers weird symptoms, gets diagnosed, and has to break the news to his kids, who have a 50/50 chance of inheriting the disease themselves), it's still fascinating, if only because Huntington's, which has been called the cruelest disease known to man, is so very merciless.
For another interesting peak into the illness, those who are able should check out the HBO documentary, The Lion's Mouth Opens, which follows a young filmmaker as she discovers whether or not she's inherited Huntington's from her father.
The Fiction Club is still in the process of deciding on their next meeting date - keep an eye on the online calendar for specifics and feel free to stop by!
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