News Item Longtime NPR Host Meets ‘Best Strangers in the World,’ Our Latest Book Club Selection Monday, April 22, 2024 FYI Book Group 150th Anniversary NPR's Ari Shapiro is the author of this season's FYI Book Club selection.... Read More
News Item Memories of ‘The Wiz,’ and Coming of Age Inspire This Award-Winning Poetry Collection Thursday, February 29, 2024 FYI Book Group Book Discussion Book Group Maya Angelou Book Award Winter FYI Book Club: "I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times" by Taylor Byas, 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award winner.... Read More
News Item The Library Finds Its Happy Place: A New Summer Reading Record Wednesday, August 16, 2023 Summer Reading You read. You ... rule. Participation in the Library’s Summer Reading program, which wrapped... Read More
News Item Teen Reflects on Drawing Up, Overseeing Summer Library Program: ‘A Lot of Surprises’ Friday, August 19, 2022 Summer Reading As part of the Library’s invaluable team of teen volunteers and interns over the summer, 17-year-old Brayden Lyons drew up and directed a Workshop... Read More
News Item You Read (a Lot); You Got Your Art On; You Made Summer Reading a Record-Setting Smash Tuesday, August 16, 2022 Summer Reading By the time our 2022 Summer Reading Program, Art Starts at Your Library, wrapped up on August 15, our patrons had shattered records a... Read More
News Item Mayukh Sen Spotlights the Stories, Struggles of Immigrant Women Who Helped Make American Food Cuisine What It Is Wednesday, February 23, 2022 FYI Book Group In his new book Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America, James Beard Award-winning food writer Mayukh Sen expl... Read More
News Item Show-Me 200: Reads, Resources and MOre for Missouri’s Bicentennial Monday, August 9, 2021 Local History KC History Summer Reading Events Reading Lists Two hundred years ago, on August 10, 1821, Missouri officially became the 24th state. From this year’s Homegrown Stories Summer Reading Prog... Read More
News Item FYI Book Club: He writes the rhythms of Kansas City and Black experience in ‘Blue Beat Syncopation’ Monday, July 26, 2021 Readers Services Book Group Summer Reading Stanley Banks' Blue Beat Syncopation: Selected Poems 1977-2002 is a frank meditation on the Black experience in Kansas City at t... Read More
News Item Local Learning and Growing with Library's Summer Reading Program Tuesday, June 1, 2021 Summer Reading Reading Lists Youth and Family Readers Services Dig into this year's Summer Reading Program with a bounty of HOMEGROWN STORIES that celebrate regional roots and cul... Read More
News Item KC Library Connects with Community in City Parks Sunday, May 16, 2021 Library News Summer Reading Youth and Family The Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City Parks and Recreation, and Kansas City Public Schools pr... Read More