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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 (3)
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.
Kirkus Review
Don visits the local library with his dad and experiences the joys of storytime, meeting a new friend, selecting his own books to take home, and getting his very own library card. There is a very traditional feeling about this local public library, although computers and bar codes are depicted and mentioned. There are movies on the shelf, but the young boy is really interested in books and magazines. There are baby toys in the illustrations (the bead and wire mazes so popular in today's libraries), but even the baby pictured is glued to her board book, held upside down. An older boy is shown using a computer and wearing headphones, and some other kids are playing chess. The adults and children are ethnically diverse, and it is great to see a bilingual Puerto Rican librarian conducting one of the story sessions. (The book is dedicated to him, Miguel Garcia-Coln of the Byram Shubert Library in Greenwich, Connecticut, as well as two other beloved, deceased children's librarians.) Reading is being celebrated, and the Rockwells have done a little bit of self-promotionwhen Don sees a book about apples and pumpkins on the shelf, guess which one is pictured. Lizzy Rockwell's clear, colorful, child-friendly watercolors and her mother's accessible text combine to create a read-aloud that will work equally well for home or early childhood group settings. Calling all young children to libraries everywhere. (Informational picture book. 3-6) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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
