Week Calendar

Using puppets, rhymes, songs, and short stories, we will engage baby and caregiver in language-rich activities designed for pre-walking babies.

Simple stories, gentle tunes, flannel boards, and nursery rhymes.

Stop by the West Des Moines Library from 9AM-5PM to see the DesMoinNTrak's N-scale working layout. This event is open to adults and children of all ages. Make sure to stop by the Children's Department for a fun train craft before you leave!

Drop in and join us in the storyroom for Saturday Storytime! Build a lifetime love of books and reading as we share stories, songs, and interactive rhymes with an early literacy focus. For ages 0-6 w/adult. No registration.

Using puppets, rhymes, songs, and short stories, we will engage baby and caregiver in language-rich activities designed for pre-walking babies.

Simple stories, gentle tunes, flannel boards, and nursery rhymes.

Join us in the Community Room for this class featuring stories, songs, and rhymes followed by gross and fine motor play all with an early literacy focus!

For ages 2-6 w/adult. 

Join us in the Story Room for this class featuring stories, songs, and rhymes. We invite you to stay and play in our children's department after story time as we will not be having our usual center play time afterwards. 

Tech One-on-One 

Drop in and join us in the storyroom for Saturday Storytime! Build a lifetime love of books and reading as we share stories, songs, and interactive rhymes with an early literacy focus. For ages 0-6 w/adult. No registration.

Tech One-on-One 

Tech One-on-One 

Stop by the West Des Moines Library from 1-6PM to see the DesMoinNTrak's N-scale working layout. This event is open to adults and children of all ages. Make sure to stop by the Children's Department for a fun train craft before you leave!

Wini Moranville reviewed restaurants for the Des Moines Register for 15 years. She writes about the highs and lows of the job in her new book, Love Is My Favorite Flavor: A Midwestern Dining Critic Tells All.

This month, we want you to bring your own book to talk about! Bring your favorite book. Bring the book your currently reading. Bring your LEAST favorite book. Just bring a book and be ready to tell us a little bit about it!

Join us in the Community Room for this class featuring stories, songs, and rhymes followed by gross and fine motor play all with an early literacy focus!

For ages 2-6 w/adult. 

Join Alana and Amy on Monday, January 13th for Club Read, a book club for adults. You may join us in the Community Room at the library or through Zoom.

Historical fiction is a great way to learn about people and events through stories that bring history to life. Our group discusses titles from a wide variety of time/places/people.