Every year on August 9th, we celebrate National Book Lovers Day. Natitonal Book Lovers Day is meant to celebrate the love and joy of books and reading in our every day lives. It's a bibliophile's favorite day!
A bibliophile is a person who has a great appreciation for or collects books!
One of the best ways to celebrate National Book Lovers Day is by sharing books with your friends and family. At the library, sharing books is our speciality and this National Book Lovers Day we'd like to remind you to make sure you share your own love of reading with your littlest family members.
Even before we learn how to read, having positive experiences with books and reading can inspire a love of books and learning for the rest of our lives. Children who are introduced to books and reading at earlier ages show improvements in all areas of development and have higher more positive outcomes in schooling and jobs throughout their entire lives!
Though some children are too young to read for themselves, they can still enjoy the benefits of books by being read to, by being taught all about books (how to hold them, how to turn pages, etc.) and by enjoying the wonders of the public library.
With all these benefits in mind, for National Book Lovers Day 2021, we'd like to share with you some great titles all about reading, books, and libraries. These fantastic picture books are perfect for inspiring a love of literature among future readers!
You Can Read written by Helaine Becker & illustrated by Mark Hoffman
In this fun and funny celebration of literacy, kids of all ages will discover that the act of reading is a daring adventure that can take you anywhere! You can read at the playground, under the sea, at the opera and even in outer space! It turns out you can read everywhere!
I Do Not Like Books Anymore! written & illustrated by Daisy Hirst
Natalie and Alphonse REALLY like books. So when it's time for Natalie to learn to read, she thinks it will be exciting -- she can have all the stories in the world now, and even read them to Alphonse. But when Natalie gets her first reading book, the letters look like squiggles and it isn't even a good story...
How to Read a Story written by Kate Messner & illustrated by Mark Siegel
Accomplished storytellers Kate Messner and Mark Siegel chronicle the process of becoming a reader: from pulling a book off the shelf and finding someone with whom to share a story, to reading aloud, predicting what will happen, and finally coming to The End.
This Book is Spineless (Yes, Yes, I Am) written by Lindsay Leslie & illustrated by Alice Brereton
A wary and unadventurous book uses its different parts, such as the jacket, gutters, and endpapers, to try and get a sense of what kind of story might be on its pages. By navigating the book's contents together, the reader and the book become friends and the book becomes braver.
Where Are My Books? written & illustrated by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Spencer loves books and reads one every night, sometimes aloud, then puts the book back in its place, but one morning his favorite book is missing, and the next day another, each replaced by a different object.
No Buddy Like a Book by Allan Wolf & illustrated by Brianne Farley
Poetic and fun, this celebratory invitation to reading reminds us that books--no matter how they are consumed--grant readers of every background the same abundant opportunity to let their imaginations soar. It's no secret why books are the very best kind of friend.
Just read! written by Lori Degman & illustrated by Victoria Tentler-Krylov
These kids all love to read and every time they open a book, they open up a whole new world! This exuberant story celebrates reading as it follows a diverse group of children who read wherever and whenever they can. Sometimes, they even read together, in a special fort they've built. The fanciful art and rollicking text will get every child excited about reading!
Just a Story written & illustrated by Jeff Mack
Reading is wild, dangerous... fantastic! The possibilities are endless, the perils enormous--good thing it's just a story. A boy happens upon a discarded book that transforms a library into an escalating series of near misses and close encounters with dastardly pirates, a herd of scooter-riding elephants, a big blue whale, and is that an alien in an Elvis wig?
A Big Surprise for Little Card by Charise Mericle Harper & illustrated by Anna Raff
A quirky ode to spirit, identity and the joy of having a library card follows the adventures of Little Card, who delightedly anticipates going to school to become a birthday card only to trade jobs with Big Card and embark on a life at the library, where he struggles to use his exuberant gifts in a quiet environment.
Library Babies by Puck & illustrated by Violet Lemay
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. Here you can find hidden nooks for reading, encounter new worlds during story time, and take the big step of signing up for your very first library card.
Nia and the New Free Library by Ian Lendler & illustrated by Mark Pett
When Littletown Library is destroyed by a tornado, it seems like book-loving Nia is the only one who cares; so she starts the "new free library" under the tree where she used to read, and writes out familiar stories and rhymes that are just a little bit wrong, and encourages the people who check them out to correct them--until soon the whole of Littletown is filled with people reading and writing books.
Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen & illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
Miss Merriweather, the head librarian, is very particular about rules in the library. No running allowed. And you must be quiet. But when a lion comes to the library one day, no one is sure what to do. There aren't any rules about lions in the library. And, as it turns out, this lion seems very well suited to library visiting.
