14th February Library Lovers Day

 

Library Lovers Day will be held on 14 February, the same day as Valentine's Day! 

The day honours libraries and the amazing life-changing books they hold within them. Before you ask why libraries need to be celebrated, digest this fact — there was a time when libraries didn’t exist and sometimes listening to many school principals you wonder if a time will come when school libraries cease to exist. Library Lovers Day started in Australia at the State Library of NSW but has now spread worldwide.

Libraries should be hubs for discovery, learning, reading and a place where children explore a world of stories. Libraries everywhere keep communities and families connected.

So at school we celebrate it together with Valentines Day by displaying all the books we have about love or with 'love' in their title.

Here's some books about loving the library for very young children:

• Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn & Rosalind Beardshaw

• Luna Loves Library Day  by Joseph Coelho & Fiona Lumbers

• The Library  by Sarah Stewart

• A Library Book for Bear  by Bonnie Becker & Lady MacDonald Denton

• The Book Without a Story by Carolina Rabei

Here's some books with inspiring librarians who think 'outside the square':

• Carlo and the Really Nice Librarian  by Jessica Spanyol

• Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen & Kevin Hawkes

• No Pirates Allowed! Said Library Lou by Rhonda Gowler Greene & Brian Ajhar

• Ronan the Librarian by  Tara Luebbe, Becky Cattie & Victoria Maderna

• The Librarian's Stories  by L.M. Falcone & Anna Wilson

  

Here's some books about real librarians who really made a difference

• Librarian on the Roof! A True Story by M.G. King & Stephen Gilpin

• Miss Moore Thought Otherwise by Jan Pinborough & Debby Atwell

• The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter

• Planting Stories: the Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpre by Anika Aldamuy Denise & Paola Escobar

To see what other books are about libraries look here.