Get registered for these STEM-themed events (for Ages 4-12) happening at the Aalfs Downtown Library on Saturday, November 28. Ages 4-8 will explore the basics of electrical current and Ages 9-12 will conquer challenges with the Library's Blue Bots.
Join the Sioux City Public Library for Sioux City Reads, a community-based reading initiative where Sioux Cityans are involved every step of the way – from book selection to completing challenges and attending book discussions. Now through November 30, cast your vote to help select the next Sioux City Reads title. Copies of each book are available for check out at any Sioux City Public Library location.
2027 Sioux City Reads Nominee Hungered by Amanda Rizkalla is a striking debut brings to life an unforgettable young narrator and the complicated, loving, cruel, and generous figures that make up her universe.
2027 Sioux City Reads Nominee Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke is the story of a traditional American woman, a “tradwife” influencer, who suddenly awakens in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel.
2027 Sioux City Reads Nominee How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley is a bold, inventive, and fiercely original debut novel that begins with an uncle dead and his tween niece’s private confession to the reader—she and her sister killed him, and they blame the British.
This session explores a wide-ranging collection of local cases pulled from different decades of Sioux City history. Moving beyond a single theme or time period, the presentation examines murders, mysteries, and shocking crimes that either captivated the community or slowly disappeared from public memory. Some stories may be familiar, others almost forgotten, but each offers a glimpse into the violence, tragedy, and human drama that have woven through Sioux City across generations and the lasting impact these events left behind. Presented by Sarah, Local History Librarian Specialist with the Sioux City Public Library.
Celebrate with us at Dinosaur Storytime! Our prehistoric party will include pterrific books, dino-mite songs, and t-rexcellent activities. After Storytime, make a hatching dinosaur craft and experience our dinosaur sensory bin!
Build healthy habits while developing a love of reading in children. Led by students from Briar Cliff University’s Exercise and Health Sciences program, each session blends storytime with simple movement activities such as hopping, jumping, balancing, and playful games.
In this rich book of essays—“excursions through death,” she calls them—Enriquez travels through North and South America, Europe and Australia, visiting Paris’s catacombs, Prague’s Old Jewish Cemetery, New Orleans’s above ground mausoleums, Buenos Aires’s opulent Recoleta, and more. Enriquez investigates each cemetery’s history and architecture, its saints and ghosts, its caretakers and visitors, and, of course, its dead.
Children in grades K-5 are invited to drop-in and practice reading to gentle (and costumed!) canine listeners at the Aalfs Downtown Library!