• General Recommendations
  • Staff-Created List

Library Love

It's always an adventure when we go to the library!

Wood Buffalo Regional Library

26 items

  • Boo the ghost spends his days haunting the local library and scaring everyone away. But little Poppy thinks she may know why Boo is acting so scary, and she knows just how to fix it!
    Picture BookSan Diego, California : Silver Dolphin, 2024. — PAI
  • Children in the community express gratitude for their local library's fun activities and inclusive space.
    Picture BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks eXplore, [2024] — KAT
  • Clarisse, a street cat who loves books, finds a new home in the library as a read-aloud cat.
    Picture BookNew York : Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2024] — EMM
  • Alfonso and Abuela love to spend Saturday afternoons finding books at the library and reading them together beneath their favorite oak tree. But when their beloved tree is cut down, can Alfonso transform the stump into something magical…
    Picture BookNew York : Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — NOR
  • This new picture book from beloved author-illustrator Jane Mount celebrates the avid reader, demonstrates how books make you better, and reassures anyone who has been anxious or uncertain about facing the real world. Lotti isn't sure she…
    Picture BookSan Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2023] — MOU
  • If animals went to work, what would they do? Mail carrier Kangaroo would carry cards and packages in her pouch. Librarian Owl would read books aloud. Across the animal kingdom, every creature would be helpful in its own special way.
    Picture BookNew York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023. — PAU
  • Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.
    Graphic NovelNew York, New York : Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2023. — RUBIO
  • Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook…
    Picture BookNew York, New York : Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023. — RAU
  • Six classic Beginner Books--all inspired, written, or illustrated by Dr. Seuss--in one sturdy volume! It's the perfect gift! Encourage a lifelong love of reading with this collection of six Beginner Books bound together in one sturdy…
    Picture BookNew York : Random House, 2023. — SEU
  • When loud-voiced Penelope becomes student-librarian, she is determined to prove she is perfect for the job while staying true to herself.
    Picture BookNew York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2023] — BEA
  • This is the story of one incredible library book and all the children who've borrowed it. It's been hugged, lost, torn, chewed by a dog and soaked in the rain. It's been read in apartments and in tents, in the park and in the classroom; by…
    Picture BookEdinburgh : Floris Books, 2023. — CRO
  • Stacey's favorite day of the week is Thursday, when the whole class goes to the library and she gets to lose herself in her beloved books. On one of these special days, Stacey discovers that a new student named Julie has trouble reading in…
    Picture BookNew York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — ABR
  • When snow prevents Mr. Hughes from opening the library one day, book-loving Library Fish finds a way to entertain herself and her bookmobile friend.
    Picture BookNew York : Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2022] — CAP
  • In this lyrical picture book, world-renowned poet, New York Times bestselling author, and Coretta Scott King Honor winner Nikki Giovanni and fine artist Erin Robinson craft an ode to the magic of a library as a place not only for…
    Picture BookNew York, New York : Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — GIO
  • Stanley the hamster has a busy day as he takes his bookmobile to the park, hands out books, hosts an author signing and then partakes in his comforting nighttime routine, in the colorful salute to reading, libraries and librarians!
    Picture BookAtlanta : Peachtree, 2021. — BEE
  • We Want Our Books

    Rosa's Fight to Save the Library

    Alexander, John Gilbert
    A story about a community coming together to save their library, led by one little girl. This inspiring book shows how every child has the power to change the world.
    Picture BookLondon : Two Hoots, 2021. — ALE
  • When Moose runs out of stories to tell his family after dinner, he ventures to the town library for books. No sooner is he settled in at home to read them aloud than Bear, Badger, Fox, Hare, Mole, the Three Wild Pigs, and even the Beavers…
    Picture BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2021] — MOO
  • Bunny askes everyone she knows how to make grape jelly, but when she gets wildly different responses she hops to her local library to track down the answer. Includes a recipe for grape jelly.
    Picture BookNew York : Philomel Books, 2021. — SHA
  • In this story based on the author's life, a young homeless girl finds a different kind of home in the library.
    Picture BookNew York, New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2021. — SIG