Library day

Title:

Library day

My first experience book

My first experience book.

Author:

Rockwell, Anne F. author.

Rockwell, Lizzy, illustrator.

ISBN:

9781481427319

Physical Description:

1 unnumbered volume : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

My first experience book

My first experience book.

Abstract:

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.

Subject:

Libraries -- Juvenile fiction.

Books and reading -- Juvenile fiction.

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Audience	Shelf Location	Material Type	Shelf Number	Current Location
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Summary

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.

Author Notes

Anne Rockwell was born in Memphis, Tennessee on February 8, 1934. She moved to New York City at the age of 18 and found a job doing typing work for a textbook publisher. She studied at Pratt Graphic Arts Center and at the Sculpture Center.

She became an author and illustrator. Her first children's book, Paul and Arthur Search for the Egg, was published in 1964. Her other books included Boats, Fire Engines, Things That Go, Our Earth, and Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth. She collaborated on several books with her husband Harlow Rockwell including Sally's Caterpillar and The Toolbox. After her husband's death, she collaborated with her daughter Lizzy Rockwell. Their books included Career Day and Zoo Day. She died of natural causes on April 10, 2018 at the age of 85.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Over the years, the mother-daughter Rockwell team has collaborated on books about the first day of school, numerous holidays, and other notable occasions. Getting a library card is a worthy milestone, and a boy named Don gives a matter-of-fact rundown of his day at the library with his father, which begins with story time and later sees the boy perusing books, movies, and magazines. The Rockwells put Don's independence front and center-he takes in the sights and makes a friend on his own, with his father reappearing only later in the book. Lizzy Rockwell's tidy watercolors create an inviting environment buzzing with activity; one scene shows children reading, using computers, playing chess, and working on crafts (the illustrator also can't resist tucking in a well-worn copy of the Rockwells' 2011 book, Apples and Pumpkins). Don's narration exudes a cool confidence and competence, his relationship with father is tender without being clingy, and readers will certainly finish the book with a solid sense of the opportunities that await at the library. Ages 4-8. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

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 two generations sharing a new bastion of learning though 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.--Hong, Terry Copyright 2015 Booklist