I Love Going Through This Book by Robert Burleigh Age Level: Toddler and up
Synopsis: For one reader, going through a book is an incredible adventure.

Flannel Board

	We Are in a Book! by Mo Willems Age Level: Toddler and up
Synopsis: In We Are in a Book! Gerald and Piggie discover the joy of being read. But what will happen when the book ends?!

	I Took My Frog to the Library by Eric A. Kimmel Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: A young girl brings her pets to the library--with predictably disastrous results.

Song

	The Best Place to Read by Debbie Bertram Age Level: Toddler and up
Synopsis: A young child with a new book hunts inside and outside the house before finding the right chair for reading.

Song

	Wolf! by Becky Bloom Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: A wolf learns to read in order to impress a group of farmyard animals he has met. Note: Artfelt has a Wolf! felt puppet set to go along with this book.

Films

	Wings: A Tale of Two Chickens by James Marshall Age Level: PreK-2
Synopsis: Sensible Harriet has to rescue silly Winnie from the clutches of Mr. Johnson, who Winnie fails to recognize as a fox since she doesn't read books. Never were two chickens more different than Harriet and Winnie. Harriet kept busy with many hobbies, while flighty Winnie was often bored.

More Books to Read On Your Own

Beware Of The Storybook Wolves
by Lauren Child
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Herb loves to be scared by the wolves in storybooks--as long as his mom takes the book out of his room at night. When she forgets one night, Herb gets an unwanted visit. Stalling for time, Herb explains that little boys are best for dessert and Big Wolf and Little Wolf should start with an appetizer, like Jell-O! He seeks help from the stars of fairy tales such as Cinderella's fairy godmother, but not before things get very sticky. This is a fairy tale so artfully fractured it looks seamless and a message about creativity and imagination that any young dreamer would love.

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book?
by Lauren Child
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Herb never imagined the dangers when he decided to scribble on and cut up his book of fairy tales. Drawing mustaches on the characters, pasting telephones into the rooms, and cutting out Prince Charming and the royal thrones had seemed like good fun. But then Herb never imagined he'd fall into the book one night.

The Library Dragon
by Carmen Agra Deedy
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Miss Lotta Scales is a dragon who believes her job is to protect the school's library books from the children, but when she finally realizes that books are meant to be read, the dragon turns into Miss Lotty, librarian and storyteller.

Library Lil
by Suzanne Williams
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: From the day she was born, Lil had a book in her hand . . . so it's no surprise when she grows up to become a librarian herself. She even manages to turn the people of Chesterville-who are couch potatoes-into readers. But then Bust-'em-up Bill roars into town with his motorcycle gang. Just mention reading to him and you're toast. Has Lil finally met her match? This original tall tale by a real-life librarian, combined with Steven Kellogg's trademark humor, is better than any TV show!

The Library
by Sarah Stewart
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Elizabeth Brown loves to read, and she collects books-lots of books. When her library grows so enormous she can't use her front door anymore, there's only one thing to do...start her own public library!

Wild About Books
by Judy Sierra
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: In this rollicking rhymed story, Molly introduces birds and beasts to this new something called reading. She finds the perfect book for every animal—tall books for giraffes, tiny ones for crickets. “She even found waterproof books for the otter, who never went swimming without Harry Potter.” In no time at all, Molly has them “forsaking their niches, their nests, and their nooks,” going “wild, simply wild, about wonderful books.” Judy Sierra’s funny animal tale coupled with Marc Brown’s lush, fanciful paintings will have the same effect on young Homo sapiens. Altogether, it’s more fun than a barrel of monkeys!

Stella Louella's Runaway Book
by Lisa Campbell Ernst
Age Level: Kindergarten and up
Synopsis: As she tries to find the book that she must return to the library that day, Stella gathers a growing group of people who have all enjoyed reading the book.

Beverly Billingsly Borrows a Book
by Alexander Stadler
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Beverly is thrilled to finally check out a book with her own library card, but when she accidentally keeps the book too long she worries that she'll have to pay a huge fine or go to jail.

Please Bury Me in the Library
by J. Patrick Lewis
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: There's nothing like curling up with a good book, but you have to be careful. Before you know it, a minute turns into an hour, an hour turns into a day, and a day may turn into . . . eternity.

Thank You, Mr. Falker
by Patricia Polacco
Age Level: Kindergarten and up
Synopsis: At first, Trisha loves school, but her difficulty learning to read makes her feel dumb, until, in the fifth grade, a new teacher helps her understand and overcome her problem.

I.Q. Goes to the Library
by Mary Ann Fraser
Age Level: Kindergarten and up
Synopsis: He’s been Student of the Week, but will I.Q. ever get a library card?

Tomas and the Library Lady
by Pat Mora
Age Level: Kindergarten and up
Synopsis: While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomâas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.

Richard Wright and the Library Card
by William Miller
Age Level: Kindergarten and up
Synopsis: Based on a scene from Wright's autobiography, Black boy, in which the seventeen-year-old African-American borrows a white man's library card and devours every book as a ticket to freedom.

Carlo and the Really Nice Librarian
by Jessica Spanyol
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Carlo the giraffe, the star of three previous adventures including Carlo Likes Reading, returns with his cat, Crackers, to show kids that the library is a friendly place--even if the librarian is a crocodile.

The Librarian from the Black Lagoon
by Mike Thaler
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Part of the Black Lagoon series.

D.W.'s Library Card
by Marc Brown
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: D.W. can't wait to get a library card, but first she has to learn how to write her name. She practices and practices, and is finally rewarded with a library card of her very own.

The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
by Jeanette Winter
Age Level: Grades 2-4
Synopsis: Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever.