April is also National Poetry Month and April 22 is Earth Day.April is also National Poetry Month and April 22 is Earth Day.
Thomás and the Library Lady by Pat Mora, illustrate by Raul Colón, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1997
A novel about a boy from a migrant farm family who was encouraged to read and earn by a librarian, it is based on the real life story of Thomás Rivera who became chancellor of the University of California.
Libraries Take Us Far by Lee Sullivan Hill, Carolrhoda Books Inc., Minneapolis, MN, 1998
An fairly easy to read survey of the many kinds of libraries with photographs including those of Oxford in England dating to the 1300s, the Boston Public Library, and a variety of modern libraries in public schools and colleges.
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq by Jeanette Winter, Harcourt Childrens Books, Orlando, FL, 2005
Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now
war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians--especially women--have little power, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds us all how, throughout the world, the love of literature and the respect for knowledge know no boundaries.
The House of Wisdom by Florence Parry Heide & Judith Heide Gilliland, illustrated By Mary GrandPré, DK Publishing, Inc., New York, NY 1999
Ishaq, the son of the chief translator to the Caliph of ancient Baghdad,
travels the world in search of precious books and manuscripts and brings
them back to the great library known as the House of Wisdom.
D.W.'s Library Card by Marc Brown, Little Brown, Boston, MA 2001
After finally getting her first library card, Arthur's little sister D.W.
tries to check out her favorite book, with humorous results.
The Library Dragon, by Carmen Agra Deedy, illustrated by Michael P. White, Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., Atlanta, GA, 1994
Miss Lotta Scales is a dragon who believes her job is to protect the library books from the children, but when she finally realizes that the books are meant to be read, the dragon turns into Miss Lotty, a librarian and storyteller, except for one minor detail.
Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky by Kathu Appelt & Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY 2001
During the great depression of the 1930s the U.S. Government's Works Progress Administration started the Pack Horse Library Project of Eastern Kentucky which brought library books to the rural areas of the Cumberland Mountains carried in saddlebags by librarians on horseback.
Wild About Books by Judy Sierra, pictures by Marc Brown, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 2004
A librarian, Molly McGrew, introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.
Richar Wright and the Library Card by William Miller, illustarted by Gregory Christie, Lee & Low Books, Inc., New York, NY, 1997
This is a fictionalized account based on the scene in Richard Wright's autobiography, Black Boy, in which Wright must borrow a white man's library card so that he can read library books that blacks could not borrow for themselves.
Red Light, Green Light, Mama and Me by Cari Best, pictures by Niki Daly, Orchard Books, New York, NY 1995
After taking the subway train downtown, Lizzie spends the day at the public library, helping her mother who is a children's librarian.
Library Lil by Suzanne Williams, illustrated by Steven Kellog, Dial Books for Young Readers, New York, NY, 1997
A strong librarian who is NOT meek, mousy and old, makes readers of the resistant residents of her small town including a tough-talking TV-watching motorcycle gang.
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, Little Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1994
A description of the life of Eratosthenes, the Greek who was chief librarian at the great library in Alexandria Egypt, a geographer and astronomer. He first accurately measured the circumference of the earth using shadows, plumb bobs, and men who walked with very uniform strides.
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