You can find books at the library, but you can also find them at your local independent bookseller. When the librarian notices Jake running his fingers across a brand-new bookshelf she offers him Woodworking for Young Hands, which becomes his favorite book and inspires a project: making a little free library at the school! Tiffin’s class loves books except Jake, a slow and careful reader who can take a long time to finish a book. Tiffin Classroom Series about the creative way that one librarian instills a love of reading. The Little Libraryby Margaret McNamara and G. This book is a testament to the importance of access to books. In this book, you can read about library books delivered by bus, boat, elephant, donkey, train, even by wheelbarrow. In North America, many kids are able to visit a building in their city or town to get books, but in many remote areas of the world, librarians have to get creative. More generally about libraries (and the many forms they can take) is the nonfiction book My Librarian Is a Camelby Margriet Ruurs. The book follows a curious young boy, Melvin, who visits the library every day after school to visit his favorite people - Marge, Betty, and Leola - at the reference desk. (This book takes place in New York, New York.)Īnd though The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians by Carla Morris and Brad Sneed is not about any real librarians, it remains a tribute to the important work they do. When his collection started to overflow his living space, he turned to the New York Public Library, where he created and curated a collection that is now known as Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Schomburg was a law clerk who, starting during the Harlem Renaissance, began to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora.
You can read his story in Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford and Eric Velasquez. Speaking of famous librarians, we need to mention Arturo Schomburg, an unheralded figure in American letters. (You can put this one down as “ Seattle, Washington” on your book map.) She spoke (and still speaks) regularly about books on NPR’s Morning Edition and KWGS-FM in Tulsa, Oklahoma, not to mention her monthly television show on the Seattle Channel, Book Lust with Nancy Pearl. Pearl, teased as “library girl” as a child by her classmates, believed in the power of the book and grew up to become the Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library. Who loves books more than librarians? And Library Girlby Karen Henry Clark and Sheryl Murray tells the story of one America’s most famous librarians: Nancy Pearl.
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