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CRRL Grow a Reader: We Love Libraries

These picture and board books convey the importance of libraries and library cards through heartwarming stories. Includes Beginning Readers.

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  • Angelina is excited to get a library card from the Chipping Cheddar Library. There are so many books she wants to read. Then she finds out she can only check out five books at a time! What will Angelina do? She will find a way...and learn all kinds…
    Book, 2021New York : Simon Spotlight, 2021. — FICTION Hol
  • Poppy loves to read, but when she discovers the library is haunted by a ghost named Boo, will she give up books forever? This touching tale about a love for books and a potentially frightening friendship is a wonderful read-aloud full of fun and…
    Book, 2024San Diego, CA : Silver Dolphin Books, [2024] — FICTION Pai
  • In this story based on the author's life, a young homeless girl finds a different kind of home in the library.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC, 2021. — 020 Si
  • When a stray cat keeps turning up for story time at the library, he is always shooed away, but when he meets Pascal, a boy who needs a reading buddy, a friendship forms, and now Pascal along with the other children have Jack the cat to read to.
    Book, 2023Chicago, Illinois : Albert Whitman & Company, 2023. — FICTION Apo
  • Sally is so excited--she is going to the library to get her very first library card. And of course her brother Charlie Brown and Sweet Babboo Linus are there with her to celebrate this big day!
    Book, 2020New York : Simon Spotlight, 2020. — FICTION Nak
  • Here come the library babies, ready to give you a tour of their favorite local library! There's no place more magical than a library, where adventures can be had both inside the pages of a book and out.
    Board Book, 2020Baltimore, MD : Duo Press, LLC, [2020] — FICTION Puc
  • Returning to her post on a bench in front of the burned-out remains of a beloved library, a dedicated librarian reads out loud from books that have survived until her persistence helps bolster her community's recovery, in a story inspired by the…
    Book, 2021Brooklyn, NY : POW!, [2021] — FICTION Fal
  • Jake, a reluctant reader, becomes a book lover when the new librarian finds Jake a book about woodworking.
    Book, 2021New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2021] — FICTION McN
  • When the children discover a bear at the librarian's desk at story time, they think he's the new librarian. He's not!
    Book, 2018Boston : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. — FICTION Don
  • At the public library in her new town, Patricia meets Mrs. Creavy, an encouraging librarian who introduces Patricia to the books of John James Audubon and helps her become the first member of the Audubon Bird Club of Freemont Elementary.
    Book, 2023New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2023. — FICTION Pol
  • It's Pete the Cat's first time at the library. He gets a fun tour of library and even reads a few super cool stories while he's there. Without even leaving the library, Pete goes on so many groovy adventures. All Pete needs is a little…
    eBook, 2018New York, NY : Harper Festival, [2018] — FICTION Dea