Books That Celebrate Reading!
Compiled by Dr. Susan Knell
Pittsburg State University
Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books, Kay Winters
Amber on the Mountain, Tony Johnston
The Art of Reading, RIF
Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair, Patricia
Polacco
Author’s Day, Daniel Pinkwater
B is for Bookworm: A Library Alphabet, Anita Prieto
Baby Bear’s Books, Jane Yolen
Beatrice Doesn’t Want To, Laura Numeroff
The Bee Tree, Patricia Polacco
Beverly Billingsly Borrows a Book, Alexander Stadler
Book! Kristine O’Connell George
Book, George Ella Lyon
Book! Book! Book! Deborah Bruss
Book Fair Day, Plourdew
The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians, Carla Morris & Brad
Sneed
Edward and the Pirates, David McPhail
Charlie Cook’s Favorite Book, Donaldson
Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarinas of Kentucky,
Kathi Appelt
‘Goin Someplace Special, Patricia McKissack & Jerry Pinkney
Good Books, Good Times! Lee Bennett Hopkins
Gooney Bird Greene, Lois Lowry
The Great Good Thing, Roderick Townley
The Incredible Book Eating Boy, Jeffers
The Ink Drinker, Eric Sanvoisin
The Librarian of Basra, Jeanette Winter
A Library for Juana: The World of Sor Juana Ines, Pat More
The Library, Sarah Stewart
Library Lil, Suzanne Williams
Library Lion, Knudson
The Library Card, Jerry Spinelli
The Library Dragon, Carman Agra Deedy
Library Mouse, Daniel Kirk
The Librarian From the Black Lagoon
The Librarian of Basra, Jeanette Winter
The Lion’s Share, Chris Conover
Miss Malarkey Leaves No Reader Behind, Judy Finchler &
Kevin O’Malley
Miss Smith Reads Again, Michael Garland
My Book Box, Hillenbrand
My Great-Aunt Arizona, Gloria Houston
My Librarian is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to
Children Around the World, Margriet Ruurs
Nightmare at the Book Fair, Dan Gutman
Petunia, Roger Duvoisin
Please Bury Me in the Library, J. Patrick Lewis
Raising Sweetness, Diane Stanley
Read and Rise, Sandra & Myles Pinkney
Read Anything Good Lately? Allen & Lindaman
The Real, True dulcie Campbell, Cynthia DeFelice
Souper Chicken, Mary Jane & Herm Auch
Stella Louella’s Runaway Book, Lisa Campbell Ernst
A Story For Bear, Dennis Haseley
The Tale of Thomas Mead, Pat Hutchins
Take Care, Good Knight, Shelley Moore Thomas & Paul Meisel
Thank You, Mr. Falker, Patricia Polacco
Tomas and the Library Lady, Pat Mora
Voices, Ursula K. Le Guin
Wild About Books, Judy Sierra
The Wednesday Surprise, Eve Bunting
The Wretched Stone, Chris Van Allsburg