BOOKS TO READ!
Book! Book! Book! by Deborah Bruss
Max's Words by Kate Banks
Winston the Book Wolf by Marni McGee
Library Lil by Suzanne Williams and Steven Kellogg
Stella Louella's Runaway Book
by Lisa Campbell Ernst
Beverly Billingsly Borrows a Book
by Alexander Stadler
The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians
by Carla Morris
Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk
The Bird, the Frog, and the Light: A Fable by Avi
Jeremiah Learns to Read by Jo Ellen Bogart
The Wednesday Surprise by Eve Bunting
Petunia by Roger Duvoisin
Amber on the Mountain by Tony Johnston
The Alphabet Tree by Leo Lionni
Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco
Read for Me, Mama by Vashanti Rahaman
I Took My Frog to the Library by Eric Kimmel
Fix-it by David McPhail
How to Live Forever by Colin Thompson
The Old Woman Who Loved to Read by John Winch
Wild about Books by Judy Sierra
“L” Is for Library by Sonya Terry
Our Library by Eve Bunting
Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen
The Library by Sarah Stewart
The Shelf Elf by Jackie Mims Hopkins
Around the State!
Stone Soup Storytelling Festival,
Woodruff (Spartanburg County)
Come See Me Festival, Rock Hill
(York County)
Azalea Festival, Pickens (Pickens County)
Taste of Blackville, Blackville
(Barnwell County)
Rice Festival, Walterboro
(Colleton County)
World Grits Festival, St. George
(Dorchester County)
Annual Historic Pendleton Spring Jubilee,
Pendleton (Anderson County)
Jubilee Arts Festival, Bennettsville
(Marlboro County)
South Carolina Spotlight: Augusta Baker
Augusta Baker is one of those names that should be
spelled out in dazzling lights in every single children’s
room in every single library in the United States.
Storyteller, author, compiler, activist, and children's
librarian, her influence on programming and collection
development policies in public libraries is legendary.
The stories in her collections are fine examples of “the
tellable tale” and her book on storytelling is likely the most
influential book on storytelling in libraries eve