Lamar Public Library

Visit 13 countries and explore the manner in which librarians provide services to patrons using everything from boats and wheelbarrows to elephants

Two girls spend an adventurous night trapped inside the public library during a terrible blizzard.

Skoob the Shelf Elf learns all about the proper way to handle books and behave in the library.

Littlebat loves to listen to the stories being told below the attic where he sleeps, but he has to wait until just the right time to get close enough to hear them better.

"Pinkalicious reads in bed, at the table, and even while she is walking. When Pinkalicious can't find any new books to read at the library, what does she do?"--

In this story based on the author's life, a young homeless girl finds a different kind of home in the library.

A collection of poems celebrating the joys of reading, books, libraries, and all things literary. There's nothing like curling up with a good book, but you have to be careful. Before you know it, a minute turns into an hour, an hour turns into a day, and a day may turn into eternity. Inspired by the likes of Edward Lear, X. J. Kennedy, and Lewis Carroll, the author of Arithme-Tickle and Scien-Trickery has created a collection of original poems about...

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.

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

When a brutal blast of cold hits Cincinnati, the public library transforms from a safe haven for the homeless into a potential war zone. Those who have no place of retreat to evade the cold stage a sit-in in the library where they are tended by members of the library's staff. What begins as an act of civil disobedience becomes a stand-off with police, and a rush-to-judgment media constantly speculating about what is really happening. This David vs....