By Clare, Peshastin Library
September is National Library Card Sign-Up month! Celebrate with one of these great picture books celebrating libraries and the power of reading. To learn more about National Library Card Sign-Up Month, check out this blog post.
Planting Stories: the Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Aldamuy Denise, illustrated by Paola Escobar (also available as a read-along movie and in Spanish)
The Library Book by Tom Chapin and Michael Mark, illustrated by Chuck Groenink
We are in a Book by Mo Willems (also available in Spanish)
The Not So Quiet Library by Zachariah OHora
The Midnight Library by Kazuno Kohara
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston (also available in Spanish)
Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Eric Velásquez (also available as a read-along movie)
Waiting For The Biblioburro / Esperando el Biblioburro by Monica Brown, illustrated by John Parra
The New liBEARian by Alison Donald, illustrated by Alex Willmore (also available as an ebook, audiobook, and read-along movie)
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