Copyright Date:
2016
Edition Date:
2016
Release Date:
01/12/16
Illustrator:
Rockwell, Lizzy,
Pages:
1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN:
1-481-42731-8
ISBN 13:
978-1-481-42731-9
Dewey:
E
LCCN:
2015940058
Dimensions:
24 cm.
Language:
English
Reviews:
ALA Booklist
One fine Saturday a father and son visit a new library together for the first time. While his father explores "the grown-up shelves," the boy enjoys story hour, makes a new friend, and discovers today's library is even more than a treasure trove of books. The boy leaves with a library card of his own and plans for his next Saturday date with Dad. Like their parent-child protagonists, writer Anne Rockwell and artist Lizzy Rockwell are a mother-daughter team with several titles to their shared name (their Apples and Pumpkins, 2011, is featured as one of four take-home titles). Their latest is certainly sweet o generations sharing a new bastion of learning ough little about the story is particularly memorable. If anything lingers amid the predictability, it's the fleeting strangeness that the father disappears for the majority of the book and that book choices from a virtually unlimited supply might surely have been more diversely inspiring. Still, for those about to make a visit, this ought to ramp up anticipation.
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Word Count:
670
Reading Level:
3.1
Interest Level:
P-2
Accelerated Reader:
reading level: 3.1
/ points: 0.5
/ quiz: 188562
/ grade: Lower Grades
Reading Counts!:
reading level:2.7 /
points:1.0 /
quiz:Q66801
Lexile:
AD520L
Beloved author Anne Rockwell celebrates books, the love of reading, and of course, libraries, with a gorgeous new picture book about a child’s first visit to the library!
One day, a young boy visits the library for the very first time. While he’s there he listens to stories, reads books and magazines, and learns that there are also movies, crafts, chess, and puppet shows—something for everyone! With simple, lyrical text and bright illustrations that jump off the page, Library Day brings the joys of reading vividly to life.