September is Library Card Sign-up Month

A reminder to parents and kids that a library card is the most important school supply of all.

Grandparents Day

National Grandparents Day is celebrated on the first Sunday after Labor Day. The official song of National Grandparents Day is "A Song For Grandma And Grandpa" by Johnny Prill. The official flower is the forget-me-not.

Take time out this weekend and spend with your grandparents or other seniors.

September Intergenerational Storytime

Young moms and their children come to Prairie Meadows on the first Thursday of each month to share a storytime with the seniors.

September Intergenerational Stortytime talked about grandparents in honor of Grandparents Day on the weekend. The children made special grandparents cards for the seniors. Everyone was really excited about making and receiving the cards.

Mom reading to everyone about what is your Granny Like?

Seniors listening to the story and love to watch the children.

Moms and children working on the cards.

Senior with the finished card.

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September New Books

A Spoonful of Poison by M.C. Beaton
When elderly Mrs. Andrews blithely jumps to her death off the tower of Saint Odo the Severe during a church charity event in the Cotswolds village of Comfrey Magna, LSD-laced jam proves to be the cause. The investigation, which focuses on the six women who contributed jam to the church fete.

Death Swatch by Laura Childs
Carmela Bertrand, the owner of the New Orleans scrapbook shop Memory Mine, and her best friend, Ava Gruiex, are eager to begin the festivities with a party hosted by their float designer pal, Jekyl Hardy. But the discovery of the garroted Archie Baudier, Jekyl's assistant, puts a damper on the fun.

Heat Lightning by John Sanford
It’s a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, and Flowers is in bed with one of his ex-wives (the second one, if you’re keeping count), when the phone rings. It’s Lucas Davenport. There’s a body in Stillwater—two shots to the head, found near a veteran’s memorial. And the victim has a lemon in his mouth.Exactly like the body they found last week.

Hot Mahogany by Stuart Woods
One night at Elaine’s, Stone Barrington—back in Manhattan after chasing down the bad guys in the Caribbean—meets Barton Cabot, older brother of his sometime ally, CIA boss Lance Cabot. Barton’s career in army intelligence is even more top secret than his brother’s, but he’s suffering from amnesia following a random act of violence. Amnesia is a dangerous thing in a man whose memory is chockfull of state secrets, so Lance hires Stone to watch Barton’s back.

The Laughter of Dead Kings by Elizabeth Peters

Who stole one of Egypt's most priceless treasures? That is the question that haunts the authorities after a distinguished British gentleman with an upper-crust accent cons his way past a security guard and escapes into the desert carrying a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic.

The Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen
When medical examiner Isles studies an X-ray scan of Madame X, which everyone assumes is a newly discovered Egyptian mummy, at Boston's Crispin Museum, she realizes the mummy isn't a priceless artifact but a recent murder victim, gruesomely preserved.

Sunset by Karen Kingbury
As John Baxter makes plans to marry Elaine, one of the Baxters enters into the most trying season of all. During a time of renewed love and hope for the future, the Baxters try to come together to establish the sacred ground of marriage and to chart a course for the future. Memories of times gone by meet with the changes of today .

The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday by Alexander McCall Smith
Dalhousie, who's recently assumed ownership of the obscure journal she's edited for many years, the Review of Applied Ethics, applies her deductive gifts to the case of a disgraced doctor. When a patient dies after taking a new antibiotic that Marcus Moncrieff deemed safe in clinical trials, the doctor's original report turns out to contain falsified data.

Ice Cream Summer 9/3

Day Two of Ice Cream Summer. The children learned to work together to make yummy ice cream.

Getting their ingredients

After much shaking their bag they finally have ICE CREAM!

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Our website is:http://www.kasson.lib.mn.us/

Ice Cream Summer

Today the children learned to work in teams to make ice cream in less than 8 minutes. They waited patiently for their ingredients, then took turns shaking the bags. They learned quickly that they needed each other to help shake the bags as their arm got tired very quickly. But it did not take them long to eat their ice cream.

Listening to instructions

Getting our ingredients

Almost Ice Cream


FINALLY! Ice Cream!

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Our website is:http://www.kasson.lib.mn.us/

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