Beth Wooden is the senior assortment improvement librarian for the Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries. E mail her at readingforfun@fvrl.org.
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Nationwide Library Week runs April 6-12, and the catchphrase this yr is “What’s the draw? Everything.”
We definitely attempt to obtain that at FVRLibraries, with a mixture of books, movies, audiobooks, and digital assets, in addition to Expertise Passes, Discovery backpacks, storytimes, ebook golf equipment, grasp gardener workshops and free tax assist.
The honorary chairs of Nationwide Library Week this yr are Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud. Their collaborative juvenile fiction ebook, “The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel,” was launched on April 1. Each are award-winning authors and illustrators, and we’ve lots of their books within the library.
Each have gained Eisner Awards — thought of probably the most prestigious award within the comics business, given for artistic achievement in American comics. Take a look at “Understanding Comics: (The Invisible Art)” by McCloud (1994) and “Smile” by Telgemeier (2010).
So many books exist about libraries and librarians! I simply completed a comfortable thriller by Victoria Gilbert referred to as “A Murder for the Books” (2017). The writer (a librarian herself) did an awesome job of exhibiting completely different points of a public librarian’s job.
One of many issues that drew me to the library career was a necessity to search out solutions, and the sleuthing a part of a librarian’s job lends itself effectively to thriller collection.
Gilbert at the moment has eight books in her “Blue Ridge Library Mystery” collection, with a ninth ebook coming in July.
Listed here are another ebook collection with librarians fixing mysteries:
“Cat in the Stacks” mysteries by Miranda James.
“Lighthouse Library” mysteries by Eva Gates.
“Library Lover’s” mysteries by Jenn McKinlay.
“42nd Street Library” mysteries by Cornelius Lehane.
“Beloved Bookroom” mysteries by Dorothy St. James.
A pleasant juvenile collection begins with “Escape from Mr. Limoncello’s Library” by Chris Grabenstein (2013). On this partaking collection opener, a number of college students are invited to spend the night time within the new library, designed by a well-known gamemaker — however within the morning, they discover they have to work collectively to resolve puzzles as a way to go away. There are six extra titles on this collection.
Different juvenile books about libraries and books embrace:
“The Lost Library” by Rebecca Stead (2023).
“Property of the Rebel Librarian” by Allison Varnes (2018).
“Ban This Book: A Novel” by Alan Gratz (2017).
“Book Scavenger” by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman (2015).
“Here Lies the Librarian” by Richard Peck (2006).
No dialogue of books-about-libraries ought to exclude image books.
Consistent with our Drawn to the Library theme, Nikki Giovanni’s lyrical love story, “A Library” (2022) sparks the creativeness with all the locations {that a} library can take you.
Different library-themed image books:
“This is a Story” by John Schu (2023).
“The Library Fish” by Alyssa Satin Capucilli (2022).
“Leilong the Library Bus” by Siyuan Liu (2020).
“Chicken Story Time” by Sandy Asher (2016).
See you on the library!
