Starting tomorrow, the Davenport Public Library has hand-picked crafts just for adults! Learn new crafts while chatting with other seniors. No craft experience necessary, but registration is required. Light refreshments will be provided.

Where: Eastern Avenue Branch Library (6000 Eastern Ave)
When: 3rd Thursday of the month at 1:00pm
Age: Adults
Cost: Free!
To register, or for more information: Call 563-326-7832

What better way to spend a warm summer day than listening to stories outside in the shade at beautiful Vander Veer Park? Stories in the Park is a weekly story time at Vander Veer Botanical Park, where families have the opportunity to hear stories, songs, and rhymes.

Where: Vander Veer Botanical Park (215 W Central Park Ave)
When: Tuesdays at 11:00am
Age: Children
Cost: Free!
For more information: Call 563-326-7832

Thanks to a partnership with WQPT Quad Cities PBS, we are delighted to host Daniel Tiger from Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood! Daniel, the four-year-old tiger, will present an activity-based program promoting social-emotional learning and school readiness.

Where: Fairmount Branch Library (3000 N Fairmount St)
When: Monday, June 17^th at 1:00pm
Ages: Toddlers and Preschoolers
Cost: Free!
Need more information?: Call 563-326-7832

We have a brand-new program starting tomorrow, just for adults–Senior Wii Bowling!

Leave out the young’ns with bowling competitions using the Nintendo Wii at the library. This program is a great way to meet new people and get up and moving around. No experience using the Nintendo Wii needed! Light refreshments will be provided.

Where: Fairmount Branch Library (3000 N Fairmount St)
When: 2nd Thursday of the month at 1:00pm
Age: Adults
Cost: Free!
Need more information?: Call 563-326-7832

Who doesn’t love science? Now gradeschoolers can meet others that share their love of the subject, with our new program Scientwists! Explore the fascinating and funky world of science. Hands-on experiments and demonstrations teach science in a fun and engaging way. Be sure to register, so we have enough science to go around!

…Science! (It needed to be said one last time.)

Where: Eastern Avenue Branch Library (6000 Eastern Ave)
When: Thursdays at 1:00pm
Age: Gradeschoolers
Cost: Free!
To register, or for more information: Call 563-326-7832

Did you know that author Mary Shelley (then Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) was at the young age of 19 when she wrote the classic tale, Frankenstein? I’m pretty sure that at 19 I was pleased with myself just to make it to my first class on time…at 10:00am.

Perhaps you like more Mel Brooks in your Frankenstein? (I mean, Frahnkensteen!)

You can pick up the book, the movie, or the parody at our library!

Dan’s Reading Road Trip is once again stopping by the Davenport Public Library, but with one small difference–he will be at the Eastern Avenue Branch Library this year!

Dan Wardell is producer and host of Kids Clubhouse on Iowa Public Television. His adventures take him to schools and libraries across the state, teaching kids to turn off their TVs, go outside and play, use their imaginations, and–most importantly–to read a good book! Dan’s Reading Road Trip is an exclusive 65 stop library tour each summer, and has performed for over 68,000 kids and grownups during the past five years. Kids can also track his progress and read his stories from the road at IPTV’s website, www.iptv.org/kids.

Where: Davenport Eastern Avenue Branch (6000 Eastern Avenue)
When: Wednesday, June 12^th at 1:30 and 2:30pm
Cost: Free!
Need more information?: Call 563-326-7832

This film program explores movies that broke through conventions with innovative technology, radical viewpoints, or by questioning perceptions. Each evening, learn how these films changed the world of cinema and contributed to a different way of looking at the world. Light snacks and beverages will be provided.

See if you can guess tomorrow’s movie, which bears the tagline, “Love has a language all of its own.”

Where: Eastern Avenue Branch Library (6000 Eastern Avenue)
When: Mondays at 6:00pm
Ages: Varies (June 10′s movie is rated R)
Cost: Free!
For more information: Call 563-326-7832

Our Summer Reading Program continues with the start of Friday Flicks!

We will be serving up popcorn and showing G and PG-rated movies related to the Summer Reading theme “Dig Into Reading.” See the world from a bug’s view, live like a gnome, or sing like a muppet!

See if you can guess the first movie we’re showing, which bears the tagline, “The adventure is down there…start digging.”

Where: Eastern Avenue Branch Library (6000 Eastern Avenue)
When: Fridays at 2:00pm
Ages: All
Cost: Free!
Need more information?: Call 563-326-7832

The U.S.’s Poet Laureate (short for Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress) is the official poet of our nation. Their job is to raise awareness and appreciation for poetry. The Poet Laureate is appointed every year by the Librarian of the United States Congress. The role was modeled on the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, but there are records of the position going back as far as the 1300s in Italy. Our current Poet Laureate is Natasha Trethewey.

The word “laureate” comes from the Latin for “crowned with laurels” (laureatus). The laurel was attributed to the Greek god Apollo, where the leaves would be made into a crown to honor poets.

You can get your fill of poetry, old and new, at any of our locations.