“What are the best Children’s books about Libraries ?” We looked at 180 of the top Kids Libraries books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 14 titles, all appearing on 3 or more “Best Kids Library ” book lists, are ranked below by how many lists they appear on. The remaining 150+ titles, as well as the lists we used are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.
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Describes unusual mobile libraries found around the world.
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Melvin discovers that the public library is the place where he can find just about anything–including three librarians who help in his quest for knowledge.
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Elizabeth Brown loves to read more than anything else, but when her collection of books grows and grows, she must make a change in her life.
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During the early days of the Great Depression, New York City’s first Puerto Rican librarian, Pura Belpré, introduces the public library to immigrants living in El Barrio and hosts the neighborhood’s first Three Kings’ Day fiesta.
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When a man brings to a remote village two burros, Alfa and Beto, loaded with books the children can borrow, Ana’s excitement leads her to write a book of her own as she waits for the BibliBurro to return. Includes glossary of Spanish terms and a note on the true story of Columbia’s BiblioBurro and mobile libraries in other countries.…
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Bored with another normal, inky evening, bats discover an open library window and fly in to enjoy the photocopier, water fountain, and especially the books and stories found there.
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Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books but when children find the tales, they all want to meet the author.
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Morris Lessmore loves words, stories and books; after a powerful storm carries him to another land, dreary and colorless, he finds a single book in color that leads him to an amazing library where, he learns, the books need him as much as he needs them.…
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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. In a war-stricken country where civilians–especially women–have little power, this true story about a librarian’s struggle to save her community’s priceless collection of books reminds us all how, throughout the world, the love of literature and the respect for knowledge know no boundaries.…
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Once popular, an increasingly shabby library book grows lonely until a young girl rediscovers it, but when it becomes lost again both the book and the girl wonder if they will have a happy ending.
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While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.
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An affectionate storybook tribute to that truly wonderful place: the library. 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. His big feet are quiet on the library floor. He makes a comfy backrest for the children at story hour. And he never roars in the library, at least not anymore. But when something terrible happens, the lion quickly comes to the rescue in the only way he knows how. Michelle Knudsen’s disarming story, illustrated by the matchless Kevin Hawkes in an expressive timeless style, will win over even the most ardent of rule keepers.
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A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the “Book Woman”–a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.
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Every Tuesday Lola and her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat.
| # | Books | Authors | Lists |
| 15 | Alia’s Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq | Mark Alan Stamaty | A Mighty Girl |
| – | – | – | Goodreads |
| 16 | Beatrice Doesn’t Want To | Laura Joffe Numeroff | Goodreads |
| – | – | – | Pernillesripp |
| 17 | Book! Book! Book! | Deborah Bruss | Goodreads |
| – | – | – | Read Brightly |
| 18 | Bunny’s Book Club | Annie Silvestro | Book Riot |
| – | – | – | Goodreads |
| 19 | D.W.’s Library Card | Marc Brown | Goodreads |
| – | – | – | Reading Rockets |
| 20 | Dewey: There’s a Cat in the Library! | Vicki Myron | Book Page |
| – | – | – | Goodreads |
| 21 | Goin’ Someplace Special | Patricia C. McKissack | Book Kids Blog |
| – | – | – | Goodreads |
| 22 | Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians | Book Kids Blog | |
| – | – | – | Flashlight Worthy Books |
| 23 | How to Read A Story | Pernillesripp | |
| – | – | – | Pre-K Pages |
| 24 | Librarian on the Roof! A True Story | M.G. King | A Mighty Girl |
| – | – | – | Goodreads |
| 25 | Library Lil | Suzanne Williams | A Mighty Girl |
| – | – | – | Goodreads |
| 26 | Lola Loves Stories | Anna McQuinn | Goodreads |
| – | – | – | Pre-K Pages |
| 27 | Lyric McKerrigan, Secret Librarian | Jacob Sager Weinstein and Vera Brosgol | A Mighty Girl |
| – | – | – | Book Riot |
| 28 | Madeline Finn and the Library Dog | A Mighty Girl | |
| – | – | – | Imagination Soup |
| 29 | Miss Brooks Loves Books! | Barbara Bottner | Goodreads |
| – | – | – | Pernillesripp |
| 30 | Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile | Gloria Houston | Book Kids Blog |
| – | – | – | Goodreads |
| 31 | Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children | Jan Pinborough | A Mighty Girl |
| – | – | – | Goodreads |
| 32 | No T. Rex in the Library | Toni Buzzeo | Goodreads |
| – | – | – | Read Brightly |
| 33 | Red Knit Cap Girl and the Reading Tree | Naoko Stoop | A Mighty Girl |
| – | – | – | Book Riot |
| 34 | Stella Louella’s Runaway Book | Lisa Campbell Ernst | Goodreads |
| – | – | – | Reading Rockets |
| 35 | Thank You, Mr. Falker | Patricia Polacco | A Mighty Girl |
| – | – | – | Goodreads |
| 36 | The Best Book to Read | Pre-K Pages | |
| – | – | – | Pre-K Pages |
| 37 | The Incredible Book Eating Boy | Oliver Jeffers | Book Riot |
| – | – | – | Pernillesripp |
| 38 | The Library Dragon | Carmen Agra Deedy | Flashlight Worthy Books |
| – | – | – | Goodreads |
| 39 | The Not So Quiet Library | Zachariah OHora | Goodreads |
| – | – | – | Read Brightly |
| 40 | The Whisper | A Mighty Girl | |
| – | – | – | Pernillesripp |
| 41 | This Is My Book | Mick Inkpen | Goodreads |
| – | – | – | Pernillesripp |
| 42 | Wild About Books | Judy Sierra | Goodreads |
| – | – | – | Read Brightly |
| 43 | Wolves | Emily Gravett | Goodreads |
| – | – | – | Read Brightly |
| 44 | A Big Surprise for Library Card | Pernillesripp | |
| 45 | A Book Is Just Like You!: All about the Parts of a Book | Kathleen Fox | Goodreads |
| 46 | A Child of Books | A Mighty Girl | |
| 47 | A Library Book for Bear | Bonny Becker | Goodreads |
| 48 | A Visit to the Sesame Street Library | Deborah Hautzig | Goodreads |
| 49 | Again! | Emily Gravett | Book Riot |
| 50 | Alistair in Outer Space | Marilyn Sadler | Goodreads |
| 51 | Also an Octopus | Pernillesripp | |
| 52 | Amal Unbound | A Mighty Girl | |
| 53 | Amelia Bedelia, Bookworm | Reading Rockets | |
| 54 | Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair | Patricia Polacco | Goodreads |
| 55 | Baby Bear’s Books | Pre-K Pages | |
| 56 | Ban This Book | A Mighty Girl | |
| 57 | Bear’s House of Books | Poppy Bishop | Goodreads |
| 58 | Beverly Billingsly Borrows a Book | Alexander Stadler | Goodreads |
| 59 | Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia | Jeanette Winter | Goodreads |
| 60 | Book about Books | Pernillesripp | |
| 61 | Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs | A Mighty Girl | |
| 62 | Book Kids | Book Kids Blog | |
| 63 | Book Uncle and Me | A Mighty Girl | |
| 64 | Bookworm Journal: A Reading Log for Kids (and Their Parents) | A Mighty Girl | |
| 65 | Busy People: Librarian | Imagination Soup | |
| 66 | But Excuse Me That Is My Book | Lauren Child | Goodreads |
| 67 | Carlo and the Really Nice Librarian | Jessica Spanyol | Goodreads |
| 68 | Chicken Story Time | Read Brightly | |
| 69 | Clarence the Copy Cat | Patricia Lakin | Goodreads |
| 70 | Corduroy Goes to the Library | B.G. Hennessy | Goodreads |
| 71 | Curious George Visits the Library | Margret Rey | Goodreads |
| 72 | Delilah D. at the Library | Jeanne Willis | Goodreads |
| 73 | Dewey’s Christmas at the Library | Vicki Myron | Goodreads |
| 74 | Dinosaur vs. the Library | Bob Shea | Goodreads |
| 75 | Dog Loves Books | Louise Yates | Goodreads |
| 76 | Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky | Flashlight Worthy Books | |
| 77 | Dreamers | A Mighty Girl | |
| 78 | Excuse Me, I’m Trying to Read! | A Mighty Girl | |
| 79 | Fish In A Tree | A Mighty Girl | |
| 80 | Franklin’s Library Book | Sharon Jennings | Goodreads |
| 81 | Hannah’s Bookmobile Christmas | Sally Derby | Goodreads |
| 82 | Help keep A Mighty Girl growing in the years ahead! | A Mighty Girl | |
| 83 | Homer the Library Cat | Reeve Lindbergh | Goodreads |
| 84 | Hot City | Barbara M. Joosse | Goodreads |
| 85 | How a Book Is Made | Aliki | Goodreads |
| 86 | How This Book Was Made | Pernillesripp | |
| 87 | I Am A Story | Pernillesripp | |
| 88 | I Know a Librarian Who Chewed on a Word | Book Kids Blog | |
| 89 | I Like Books | Pre-K Pages | |
| 90 | I Took My Frog to the Library | Eric A. Kimmel | Goodreads |
| 91 | I Will Not Read This Book | Cece Meng and Joy Ang | Book Riot |
| 92 | I.Q. Goes to the Library | Mary Ann Fraser | Goodreads |
| 93 | If You Ever Want to Bring a Circus to the Library, Don’t! | Read Brightly | |
| 94 | Isabella: Star of the Story | A Mighty Girl | |
| 95 | It’s Library Day | Janet Morgan Stoeke | Goodreads |
| 96 | It’s a Book | Pernillesripp | |
| 97 | Let Me Finish! | Minh Lê and Isabel Roxas | Book Riot |
| 98 | Library Day | Pernillesripp | |
| 99 | Library Lily | Gillian Shields | Goodreads |
| 100 | Library On Wheels | A Mighty Girl | |
| 101 | Library: An Unquiet History | Book Page | |
| 102 | Littlebat’s Halloween Story | Diane Mayr | Goodreads |
| 103 | Locked in the Library! (Arthur Chapter Book, #6) | Marc Brown | Goodreads |
| 104 | Luna Loves Library Day | Imagination Soup | |
| 105 | Maisy Goes to the Library | Lucy Cousins | Goodreads |
| 106 | Manners With a Library Book | Pre-K Pages | |
| 107 | Matilda | A Mighty Girl | |
| 108 | Mind Your Manners, B.B. Wolf | Judy Sierra | Goodreads |
| 109 | Miss Rumphius | Barbara Cooney | Goodreads |
| 110 | Miss Smith and the Haunted Library | Michael Garland | Goodreads |
| 111 | My Brigadista Year | A Mighty Girl | |
| 112 | No Pirates Allowed! Said Library Lou | Rhonda Gowler Greene | Goodreads |
| 113 | Once Inside the Library | Barbara A. Huff | Goodreads |
| 114 | Otto the Book Bear | Katie Cleminson | Goodreads |
| 115 | Our Librarian Won’t Tell Us Anything | Flashlight Worthy Books | |
| 116 | Our Library | Eve Bunting | Goodreads |
| 117 | Parsley Rabbit’s | Pernillesripp | |
| 118 | Penelope Popper, Book Doctor | Pre-K Pages | |
| 119 | Please Bury Me in the Library | J. Patrick Lewis | Goodreads |
| 120 | Please, Louise | Pernillesripp | |
| 121 | Polly Diamond and the Magic Book | A Mighty Girl | |
| 122 | Property of the Rebel Librarian | A Mighty Girl | |
| 123 | Pumpkin Cat | Ann Turner | Goodreads |
| 124 | Quiet! There’s a Canary in the Library | Don Freeman | Goodreads |
| 125 | Rachel’s Library | Richard Ungar | Goodreads |
| 126 | Reading Makes You Feel Good | Pre-K Pages | |
| 127 | Reading Together: Everything You Need To Know To Raise A Child Who Loves To Read | A Mighty Girl | |
| 128 | Red Light, Green Light, Mama and Me | Cari Best | Goodreads |
| 129 | Richard Wright and the Library Card | William Miller | Goodreads |
| 130 | Ron’s Big Mission | Rose Blue | Goodreads |
| 131 | Running the Books | Book Page | |
| 132 | Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library | Imagination Soup | |
| 133 | Stuart Little at the Library (An I Can Read Picture Book) | Susan Hill | Goodreads |
| 134 | Tell Me Some More… | Crosby Bonsall | Goodreads |
| 135 | The Archivist | Book Page | |
| 136 | The Berenstain Bears: We Love the Library | Mike Berenstain | Goodreads |
| 137 | The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore | Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and R. Gregory Christie | Book Riot |
| 138 | The Book Thief | A Mighty Girl | |
| 139 | The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Reader in Every Child | A Mighty Girl | |
| 140 | The Borrower | Book Page | |
| 141 | The Camel Bookmobile | Book Page | |
| 142 | The Children Who Loved Books | Peter Carnavas | Goodreads |
| 143 | The Day Dirk Yeller Came to Town | Mary Casanova | Goodreads |
| 144 | The Detective Dog | Julia Donaldson | Goodreads |
| 145 | The Enchanted Library | Karen Andrea | Goodreads |
| 146 | The Fox in the Library | Lorenz Pauli | Goodreads |
| 147 | The Geographer’s Library | Book Page | |
| 148 | The Ghost Library | David Melling | Goodreads |
| 149 | The Girl Who Hated Books | Manjusha Pawagi and Leanne Franson | Book Riot |
| 150 | The Good Little Book | Kyo Maclear and Marion Arbona | Book Riot |
| 151 | The Good Luck of Right Now | Book Page | |
| 152 | The Great Dewey Hunt [With Booklet] | Toni Buzzeo | Goodreads |
| 153 | The Historian | Book Page | |
| 154 | The Ice Queen | Book Page | |
| 155 | The Inner Circle | Book Page | |
| 156 | The Librarian from the Black Lagoon (Black Lagoon, #5) | Mike Thaler | Goodreads |
| 157 | The Librarian of Auschwitz | A Mighty Girl | |
| 158 | The Library Doors | Toni Buzzeo | Goodreads |
| 159 | The Library Gingerbread Man | Dotti Enderle | Goodreads |
| 160 | The Library Pages | Carlene Morton | Goodreads |
| 161 | The Little Red Fish | Taeeun Yoo | Goodreads |
| 162 | The Mermaid’s Purse | A Mighty Girl | |
| 163 | The Midnight Library | Kazuno Kohara | Goodreads |
| 164 | The Read-Aloud Handbook | A Mighty Girl | |
| 165 | The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus | Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet | Book Riot |
| 166 | The Shadow of the Wind | Book Page | |
| 167 | The Time Traveler’s Wife | Book Page | |
| 168 | The Wild Book | A Mighty Girl | |
| 169 | The World’s Strongest Librarian | Book Page | |
| 170 | This Book Is Overdue! | Book Page | |
| 171 | Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library | Barb Rosenstock | Goodreads |
| 172 | Voices | A Mighty Girl | |
| 173 | We’re Going on a Book Hunt | Pat Miller | Goodreads |
| 174 | Wednesday Surprise | A Mighty Girl | |
| 175 | What Happened to Marion’s Book? | Brook Berg | Goodreads |
| 176 | What Marion Taught Willis | Brook Berg | Goodreads |
| 177 | When the Library Lights Go Out | Megan McDonald | Goodreads |
| 178 | Why Can’t My Daughter Read?: Success Strategies for Helping Girls with Dyslexia and Reading Difficulties | A Mighty Girl | |
| 179 | Winston the Book Wolf | Marni McGee | Goodreads |
| 180 | Word Wizard | A Mighty Girl |
| Source | Article |
| A Mighty Girl | 35 Mighty Girl Books Celebrating Reading, Libraries, and Literacy |
| Book Kids Blog | 11 Memorable Children’s Books About Libraries and Librarians … |
| Book Page | 15 of our favorite books about libraries and librarians |
| Book Riot | Read To Me: 14 Best Children’s Books About Books |
| Flashlight Worthy Books | Children’s Picture Books About Libraries |
| Goodreads | Picture Books about the Library! |
| Imagination Soup | Picture Books That Celebrate the Library |
| Pernillesripp | Picture Books that Celebrate Books and Libraries |
| Pre-K Pages | Preschool Books About the Library |
| Read Brightly | 10 Imaginative Children’s Books About Libraries |
| Reading Rockets | Favorite Stories About Libraries and Librarians |
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