By Jill Fuller
Driving down the street, I see pumpkins on front stoops and fake spiderwebs strung across bushes. The leaves on the trees are changing, like kids putting on costumes for trick-or-treating.
It might be the time of year for all things spooky, but there’s nothing scary about the fun you can find at your local library. Read on to hear some stories and take a peek at the tricks and treats happening at the libraries across Jefferson County.
If the kids can’t wait until Halloween to collect candy, you can stop into the L.D. Fargo Public Library in Lake Mills to go on a Candy Bar Scavenger Hunt. Kids can find the candy bars hidden around the library to get candy and be entered to win a book prize.
There was candy a’plenty at the Jefferson Public Library during the City of Jefferson’s Boo Bash on Oct. 20. Tons of kids came through the doors to trick-or-treat at the library and play the “Poke A Pumpkin” game.
At the libraries, we are fond of our patrons … especially when they’re passing out candy. Amy Lutzke, librarian at the Dwight Foster Public Library in Fort Atkinson, was pleasantly surprised the other day when a young man from an after-school group offered her a Jolly Rancher, something she hadn’t had in years. Sometimes the smallest gestures can brighten our days.
With Halloween less than a week away, readers have been counting down with a new picture book from local author and former library director Leann Lehner. “The Twelve Days of Halloween” counts down to the big day with a variety of fun, Halloween gifts delivered by a witchy True Ghoul.
Multiple libraries in Jefferson County have hosted book readings and signings with Ms. Lehner, who came to each one dressed in her witchiest attire, complete with ghoul-green hair. You can find the book in your local library to read to your own little ghosts and goblins at home.
Sometimes the most shocking thing at the library isn’t Jack-o-lanterns and ghosts, but the incredible amount of interesting, fun, and helpful materials available on the library shelves. Recently, a librarian at the Watertown Public Library noticed a boy looking at the Library of Things collection. “What is this stuff?” he asked her. She told him how he could check out any of the items —Kindles, cake pans, yard games, and more — with his library card. “So … the library isn’t just books?” he asked. What a fun surprise!
No matter how you decorate your pumpkins or which costume you’ll be donning this Halloween, we hope you’ll take a minute to stop into your library to see all the spooky fun you can find there.
Jill Fuller is marketing and communications librarian at the Bridges Library System, of which all Jefferson and Waukesha county public libraries are members.
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