Families

Upcoming events

Monday, April 21, 2025 - 10:30am

Storytime Room

Join us every Monday for a special Chinese Bilingual Storytime with Children's Librarian Fang! Together we will enjoy songs, rhymes, stories and fun crafts in Chinese and English. Children of all ages and their caregivers are welcome to join us...

Kids Families Storytimes

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 10:30am

Storytime Room

Join us every Tuesday for a fun Spanish Bilingual Storytime with Children's Librarian Miriam! Every week, there will be a fun theme with plenty of repetition from previous weeks in order to enhance language learning. Get ready for a lot of...

Kids Babies Families Storytimes

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 10:30am

Book End Bookstore

Browse a selection of photography and art to flip through at your leisure, for display, or find some interesting photos to use for collaging and vision board making. This April at The Book End Art and Coffee Table Books are buy one get one free!...

Adults Families

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 4:00pm

Storytime Room

Book to Art Club is the fourth Tuesday of every month for school age children. Each month we will read a picture book and create custom art inspired by the story! Spring is here, let's celebrate by reading a beautiful book about the human animal...

Kids Families Arts & Crafting Storytimes

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 10:30am

Book End Bookstore

Browse a selection of photography and art to flip through at your leisure, for display, or find some interesting photos to use for collaging and vision board making. This April at The Book End Art and Coffee Table Books are buy one get one free!...

Adults Families

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 10:30am

Meeting Room A, Storytime Room

StoryJAM is a music and movement program designed to model, encourage, and facilitate music-making as an early literacy skill. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to participate as much as possible. Singing is a projectile activity, please be...

Kids Babies Families Music Storytimes

Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 10:30am

Storytime Room

Music Together® is an active, music-making learning program for children ages newborn to five years old and the grownups who love them! Join Preucil School of Music's Music Together® teacher Leah as your little ones experience and grow...

Kids Families Storytimes

Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 10:30am

Book End Bookstore

Browse a selection of photography and art to flip through at your leisure, for display, or find some interesting photos to use for collaging and vision board making. This April at The Book End Art and Coffee Table Books are buy one get one free!...

Adults Families

Friday, April 25, 2025 - 10:30am

Book End Bookstore

Browse a selection of photography and art to flip through at your leisure, for display, or find some interesting photos to use for collaging and vision board making. This April at The Book End Art and Coffee Table Books are buy one get one free!...

Adults Families

Friday, April 25, 2025 - 4:00pm

Storytime Room

Green Iowa AmeriCorps and the Iowa City Public Library are teaming up with the Neighborhood Forest to inspire youth environmentalism and offer storytime, fun activities, and lessons on tree planting and care all in celebration of Arbor Day!...

Kids Families Nature & Gardening Storytimes