Join members of Prairie States Mushroom Club for a special storytime all about mushrooms! After storytime, stick around to color mushroom illustrations created by a local artist, and make a mini mushroom craft. Prairie States Mushroom Club promotes...
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Friday, May 3, 2024 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Join us every Friday 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...
Saturday, May 4, 2024 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Family Storytime is recommended for all ages and includes both shorter and longer stories combined with action games and activities. 家庭故事会包括较长或较短的故事，并结合动作游戏和相关活动，适于各年龄段共同参与。 如您因为身体原因需要特别安排，请联系图书馆。
Saturday, May 4, 2024 - 2:00pm
Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C
Blake Shaw wears many hats in the community which include gigging weekly on double & electric bass, leading educational endeavors for students and teachers alike, performing as a vocalist, composing/arranging music, serving as Cornell College’s...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 10:30am
Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C, 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...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 5:00pm
Storytime Room
Mother's Day is coming soon! Stop by the library to make a small, custom flower arrangement with flowers from local flower farm Lovely Bunches, and we will also have materials for wonderful papercrafts to gift. Come with the special mother or...
Friday, May 10, 2024 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Join us every Friday 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...
Saturday, May 11, 2024 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Former ICPL staffer, current English Language Learner (ELL) teacher, and now author Raquel MacKay joins us this morning to share her debut picture book "I Hear a Buho"! "I Hear a Buho" is a rhyming story with text in both English...
Saturday, May 11, 2024 - 3:00pm
Storytime Room
Edith Renfrow Smith, age 110, was the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1937. Grinnell resident Monique Shore has just published "No One is Better Than You: Edith Renfrow Smith and the Power of a Mother...
Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 2:00pm
Storytime Room
Craft an out-of-this-world UFO using paper plates and sequins, and add an alien pilot using pom-poms and a cup! Sunday Fun Days are suitable for all ages, but younger children should attend with a caregiver. 用纸盘和亮片制作一个来自外太空的 UFO（不明飞行物），...