librarians

A boy expects only the worst until he discovers that librarian Mrs. Beamster is very nice, and the library is his favorite place. One track of sound disc has page-turn signals.

Young readers will learn about some of the key professionals who work in their community in Librarians, a title in the People in My Community series. Each book features easy-to-read text based on sight words, paired with vivid photos to stimulate and engage even the most reluctant readers.

Text and photographs describe libraries including types of materials, librarians, and manners to be used when visiting a library.

During the early days of the Great Depression, New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian, Pura Belpre, introduces the public library to immigrants living in El Barrio and hosts the neighborhood's first Three Kings' Day fiesta.

Contains photographs, information, and personal stories about mobile libraries and their young patrons in countries around the world, showing some of the unique ways by which books are delivered, including boat, camel, and elephant.

Provides an overview of the activities children participate in during a visit to the school library, in rhyming verse that can be sung to the tune of THE WHEELS ON THE BUS.

Librarian Alia Muhammad Baker, concerned about the safety of the public library in Basra, Iraq, after the outbreak of war in 2003, begins moving books to other locations, managing to save over seventy percent of the collection before the building is destroyed by fire.

Luis has so many books in his little house in Colombia that he buys two donkeys and travels throughout the land bringing the joy of reading to children.

A first-grade girl--who does not like to read--stubbornly resists her school librarian's efforts to convince her to love books until she finds one that might change her mind.

Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of destruction at the hands of Al Quaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.