Lamar Public Library

A formidable librarian makes readers not only out of the once resistant residents of her small town, but out of a tough-talking, television-watching motorcycle gang as well.

Library Fish, who calls the library her home, decides it is time to learn to do what everyone around her loves doing--read.

Attention, reader: You’re going to LOVE this book! No, really, you are. It’s got everything you could ever want: comedy, drama, action, heart. Plus―are you ready? It’s got homework! Ahh yeah! And a trip to the best place ever, the dentist! Ahhhh yeahhh! Additionally--brace yourself--it’s got raisins! Nature’s candy. AHH YEAHHH! This book is so great, you won’t be able to stop reading it. I DARE you not to have fun.

As she tries to find the book that she must return to the library that day, Stella gathers a growing group of people who have all enjoyed reading the book.

Told in rhyming text young dinosaurs learn to read, but only after many mishaps, like chewing their books and throwing them at the cat--but eventually they learn to respect their books, and treat them properly.

Otter and his friends visit the library, where they discover that they can go anywhere and have as many adventures as they want by reading books.

A story-within-a-story. Scaled pages pair colors with incrementally smaller books sandwiched within each other, opening to reveal different animals, each opening a book of a different color and reading about the next.

A boy shows a book he has made about all of the things he can do for himself, from making his own lunch to fixing his own toys.

When the children go back to school, the animals on the farm are bored, so they go into the library in town trying to find something to do.

Poppleton the pig moves from the city to a small town, where he makes new friends and spends Mondays reading adventure books in the library.