Join us in the Storytime Room for Summertime Storytime on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 10:30am. The Storytime librarian will vary each week, and every day is open to all ages! Catch the all-ages Thrilling Thursday programs at a...
Summer Reading Program
Adventure Begins at Iowa City Public Library
May 28 - August 10, 2024
Stay busy this summer reading and attending events!
Available to readers of all ages and abilities, babies through adults. Participants will receive a gamecard to track their summer reading goals.
Prizes available starting Monday, June 3, 2024.
If you have time for a quick question, let us know how did you hear about the summer reading program?
Downloads
Resources
- Watch past programs on The Library Channel
- Learn how to log books with Beanstack's mobile app
Sponsors
A big thank you to the Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation for sponsoring the prizes!
Come read with us!
Upcoming Events
All library patrons, regardless of age or neurodiversity can participate in our Summer Reading Programs. We will be happy to customize reading programs and activities to meet the individual needs of our patrons. Please contact Angela Pilkington for more information.
Upcoming events
Friday, August 9, 2024 - 1:00pm
Teen Center
Every Friday throughout Summer, we'll explore food and watch a movie. Food: Mac and Cheese and Collard Greens Movie: In 1909 Celie a black American girl is given away in marriage by her abusive father to a local farmer Albert who treats her...
Friday, August 9, 2024 - 1:00pm
Storytime Room
Take a break from the summer sun and join us every Friday for a matinee movie showing! After a bite from a radioactive spider, Miles Morales becomes the one and only Spider-Man. When a dimensional gateway opens up, Miles soon realizes he isn't...
Sunday, August 11, 2024 - 2:00pm
Storytime Room
Mark your page without leaving a mark with today's craft, magnetic bookmarks. You will have the choice between upcycling and designing your very own magnetic bookmark. Sunday Fun Days are suitable for all-ages, but younger children should make...
Monday, August 12, 2024 - 9:30am
Bookmobile, Willow Creek Park
Join us for Stories in the Park all summer long! Note the new Stories in the Park time at 9:30 to beat the midmorning heat! We will offer the same Storytime over the course of the week, so please choose one park location a week to attend! We will be...
Monday, August 12, 2024 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Join us in the Storytime Room for Summertime Storytime on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 10:30am. The Storytime librarian will vary each week, and every day is open to all ages! Catch the all-ages Thrilling Thursday programs at a...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Join us in the Storytime Room for Summertime Storytime on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 10:30am. The Storytime librarian will vary each week, and every day is open to all ages! Catch the all-ages Thrilling Thursday programs at a...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 7:00pm
Other
Psychological Suspense is often told from the point-of-view of a psychologically stressed character who's unstable or delusional mental or emotional state becomes more evident as the book unfolds. The plot may revolve around deception,...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - 9:30am
Bookmobile, Wetherby Park
Today we are hosting special musical performances with the Family Folk Machine for Stories in the Park! The Family Folk Machine is a non-profit, intergenerational, non-auditioned choir that welcomes kids and adults of all ages and backgrounds to...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Join us in the Storytime Room for Summertime Storytime on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 10:30am. The Storytime librarian will vary each week, and every day is open to all ages! Catch the all-ages Thrilling Thursday programs at a...
Friday, August 9, 2024 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Join us in the Storytime Room for Summertime Storytime on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 10:30am. The Storytime librarian will vary each week, and every day is open to all ages! Catch the all-ages Thrilling Thursday programs at...
Friday, August 9, 2024 - 1:00pm
Teen Center
Every Friday throughout Summer, we'll explore food and watch a movie.
Food: Mac and Cheese and Collard Greens
Movie: In 1909 Celie a black American girl is given away in marriage by her abusive father to a local farmer Albert...
Friday, August 9, 2024 - 1:00pm
Storytime Room
Take a break from the summer sun and join us every Friday for a matinee movie showing!
After a bite from a radioactive spider, Miles Morales becomes the one and only Spider-Man. When a dimensional gateway opens up, Miles soon realizes he...
Sunday, August 11, 2024 - 2:00pm
Storytime Room
Mark your page without leaving a mark with today's craft, magnetic bookmarks. You will have the choice between upcycling and designing your very own magnetic bookmark.
Sunday Fun Days are suitable for all-ages, but younger children...
Monday, August 12, 2024 - 9:30am
Bookmobile, Willow Creek Park
Join us for Stories in the Park all summer long! Note the new Stories in the Park time at 9:30 to beat the midmorning heat! We will offer the same Storytime over the course of the week, so please choose one park location a week to attend! We will...
Monday, August 12, 2024 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Join us in the Storytime Room for Summertime Storytime on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 10:30am. The Storytime librarian will vary each week, and every day is open to all ages! Catch the all-ages Thrilling Thursday programs at...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Join us in the Storytime Room for Summertime Storytime on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 10:30am. The Storytime librarian will vary each week, and every day is open to all ages! Catch the all-ages Thrilling Thursday programs at...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 7:00pm
Other
Psychological Suspense is often told from the point-of-view of a psychologically stressed character who's unstable or delusional mental or emotional state becomes more evident as the book unfolds. The plot may revolve around deception,...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - 9:30am
Bookmobile, Wetherby Park
Today we are hosting special musical performances with the Family Folk Machine for Stories in the Park! The Family Folk Machine is a non-profit, intergenerational, non-auditioned choir that welcomes kids and adults of all ages and backgrounds to...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Join us in the Storytime Room for Summertime Storytime on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 10:30am. The Storytime librarian will vary each week, and every day is open to all ages! Catch the all-ages Thrilling Thursday programs at...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Join us in the Storytime Room for Summertime Storytime on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 10:30am. The Storytime librarian will vary each week, and every day is open to all ages! Catch the all-ages Thrilling Thursday programs at...
Friday, August 16, 2024 - 9:30am
Bookmobile, Mercer Park
Today we are hosting special musical performances with the Family Folk Machine for Stories in the Park! The Family Folk Machine is a non-profit, intergenerational, non-auditioned choir that welcomes kids and adults of all ages and backgrounds to...
Friday, August 16, 2024 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Join us in the Storytime Room for Summertime Storytime on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 10:30am. The Storytime librarian will vary each week, and every day is open to all ages! Catch the all-ages Thrilling Thursday programs at...
Sunday, August 18, 2024 - 2:00pm
Storytime Room
This colorful craft is paint, crayon and collage all in one! Make your own unique butterfly like the butterfly that emerges from the chrysalis at end of The Very Hungry Caterpillar in an art style inspired by stained glass.
Sunday Fun Days...
Sunday, August 25, 2024 - 2:00pm
Storytime Room
Let's make a craft you can play with and wear! We'll use paper tubes to paint and decorate a snake that will wrap around your arm once completed!
Sunday Fun Days are suitable for all-ages, but younger children should make the...
Thursday, September 5, 2024 - 4:00pm
Storytime Room
Hang out with other tweens, eat pizza, brainstorm future tween events and activities for this school year, and make a variety of crafts.
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