10/28/24 @ 6:30pm – 10/28/24 @ 8:00pm Community Room Winfield Public Library WPL’s Bookn’ with Friends will gather to discuss The Dry by Jane Harper on Monday, October 28 at 6:30pm. An absorbing and atmospheric mystery about a small town with big secrets, The Dry was selected to meet the 2024 Reading Challenge “detective novel or true crime.” Harper’s debut mystery, the novel introduces protagonist Aaron Falk and was made into a movie starring Eric Bana in 2020.  The Dry has a 4-star rating on goodreads and is 336 pages long. Copies are available to check out at the library’s front desk. More on The Dry from the publisher: In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain. Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him twenty years earlier. But as questions mount, Falk is forced to probe deeper into the deaths of the Hadler family. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret. A secret Falk thought was long buried. A secret Luke’s death now threatens to bring to the surface in this small Australian town, as old wounds bleed into new ones.

10/30/24 @ 9:30am – 10/30/24 @ 10:00am Discovery Room Winfield Public Library So fun for kids, you wouldn’t know there is important work occurring- we’re DEVELOPING READERS! Our Preschooler Story Times include a variety of fun picture books and wordplay that help children develop important pre-reading skills and a love for books.  Don’t stress if you have a wiggly kid- kiddos are wiggly and this program is for them! 🙂  Come, relax, and enjoy making memories with your child! Fall season, Aug. 28- Nov. 20: 9:30am-10am. Feel free to pop in at any time, any week!  

10/30/24 @ 10:30am – 10/30/24 @ 11:00am Discovery Room Winfield Public Library So fun for kids, you wouldn’t know there is important work occurring- we’re DEVELOPING READERS! These early literacy classes build a love for books and help develop the 6 important skills children need to learn to read. We include songs, rhymes, rhythm, repetition, and movement, plus an introduction to fun loveable books. Don’t stress if you have a wiggly kid- tots are wiggly and this program is for them! 🙂  Come, relax, and enjoy making memories with your child!  Fall season, offered Wednesday mornings and evenings, Aug. 29- Nov. 20, 2024: 10:30 am-11:00 am and 5:30 pm-6:00 pm. Feel free to pop in at any time, any week!

10/30/24 @ 4:15pm – 10/30/24 @ 5:00pm Discovery Room Winfield Public Library Wednesday afternoons, August 28 – Nov. 20 4:15 pm – 5:00 pm Grades K-3rd (ish) Reading the first book in this series was so much fun this summer. The adventures continue this fall! This is a weekly book club where Ms. Jo reads hilarious chapter books aloud while book clubbers relax, snack, and enjoy great books together. We’ll start with Mr. Penguin and the Fortress of Secrets by Alex T. Smith. You may join the book club at any time (we recap where we are in the story each week so pop in and join us!). You’ll love these books!

10/30/24 @ 5:30pm – 10/30/24 @ 6:00pm Discovery Room Winfield Public Library So fun for kids, you wouldn’t know there is important work occurring- we’re DEVELOPING READERS! These early literacy classes build a love for books and help develop the 6 important skills children need to learn to read. We include songs, rhymes, rhythm, repetition, and movement, plus an introduction to fun loveable books. Don’t stress if you have a wiggly kid- tots are wiggly and this program is for them! 🙂  Come, relax, and enjoy making memories with your child!  Fall season, offered Wednesday mornings and evenings, Aug. 29- Nov. 20, 2024: 10:30 am-11:00 am and 5:30 pm-6:00 pm. Feel free to pop in at any time, any week!