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Books about libraries - a booklist
This booklist is also available for download as a Microsoft Word file (DOC format, 225 KB).
PICTURE BOOKS
- Winston the Book Wolf
Ian Beck illus Marni McGee
Bloomsbury 2006 0 74757977 6 - A Cultivated Wolf
Becky Bloom illus Pascal Biet
Siphano 2001 190307830X - Beware the Storybook Wolves
Lauren Child
Hodder 2001 0340779160 - But Excuse Me That Is My Book
Lauren Child
Puffin 2005 0141382112 - Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Book
Lauren Child
Hodder 2003 0340805552 - Maisy Goes to the Library
Lucy Cousins
Walker 2006 0744570891 - Little Bo Peep's Library Book
Cressida Cowell
Orchard 1999 0531301796 - Wolves
Emily Gravett
Macmillan 2006 1405053623 - Library Lion
Michelle Knudsen illus Kevin Hawkes
Candlewick Press 2006 0763622621 - Ben's Book
Nanette Newman illus Georgie Birkett
Chrysalis 2005 184458125X - Prue Theroux, the Cool Librarian
Gillian Rubinstein illus David Mackintosh
Red Fox 2001 0091838878 - Wild About Books
Judy Sierra illus Marc Brown
Frances Lincoln 2006 1845075269 - Carlo and the Really Nice Librarian
Jessica Spanyol
Raintree 2006 184428512X - The Library
Sarah Stewart illus David Small
Frances Lincoln 2006 1845074947 - The Librarian from the Black Lagoon
Mike Thaler illus Jared Lee
Scholastic 1993 0613034600 - Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs
Ian Whybrow and Adrian Reynolds
Picture Puffin 2003 0140569804 - Delilah Darling is in the Library
Jeanne Willis illus Rosie Reeve
Puffin 2006 0141381744
BEGINNING READERS | Up to Booklist Contents
- The Legend of Spud Murphy
Eoin Colfer
Young Puffin 2005 0141317086 - Loudmouth Louis
Anne Fine
Puffin 1998 0141302054 - Mr Majeika and the Lost Spell Book
Humphrey Carpenter
Puffin 2003 0141315369 - Mr Majeika and the School Book Week
Humphrey Carpenter
Puffin 1993 0140348344 - The Dad Library
Dennis Whelehan
Young Corgi 1997 0552529796
JUNIOR/LOWER SECONDARY | Up to Booklist Contents
- A Spell Behind Bars
Bowvayne
Usborne 2006 0794512933 - Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Georgia Byng
Macmillan 2003 0330399853 - Matilda
Roald Dahl
Puffin 2001 0141311363 - Because of Winn Dixie
Kate Di Camillo
Walker 2005 0744583497 - Bad Dreams
Anne Fine
Corgi 2006 0440867320 - Special Powers
Mary Hoffman
Hodder 1997 0340626704 - Stacks of Stories
Mary Hoffman (ed)
Hodder 1997 034069968X - The Middle of the Sandwich
Tim Kennemore
Puffin 1983 0140315195 - The Librarian who Measured the Earth
Kathryn Lasky illus Kevin Hawkes
Little Brown 1994 0316515264 - The Great Piratical Rumbustification and The Librarian and the Robbers
Margaret Mahy
William Morrow 1993 0688124690 - The Dead Letter Box
Jan Mark
Happy Cat Books 2004 1903285585 - Thunder and Lightnings
Jan Mark
Puffin 2000 0141309563 - I Believe in Unicorns
Michael Morpugo
Walker 2006 140630204X - Harry Potter series
J K Rowling
Bloomsbury - Endymion Spring
Matthew Skelton
Puffin 2006 0141382392 - The Edge Chronicles series
Paul Stewart illus Chris Riddell
Corgi (2005 0552548502 Freeglader) - Chicken School
Jeremy Strong
Puffin 2004 0141317361
TEENAGE | Up to Booklist Contents
- The Memory Prisoner
Thomas Bloor
Hodder 2001 0340850612 - Malarkey
Keith Gray
Red Fox 2003 0099439441 - Girl, 15, Charming but Insane
Sue Limb
Bloomsbury 2004 0747571856 - Exchange
Paul Magrs
Simon and Schuster 2006 1416916628 - The Wind Singer
William Nicholson
Egmont 2003 1405209909 - Lirael
Garth Nix
Collins 2004 0007137338 - Discworld series
Terry Pratchett
Doubleday - Life Line
Rosie Rushton
Barrington Stoke 2002 1842990578 - The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Bodley Head 2007 037032921X - Buffy the Vampire Slayer series
Joss Whedon
Pocket Books
16+ | Up to Booklist Contents
- Making Love
Marius Brill
Bantam 2004 0552771317 - The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Corgi 2006 0552154016 - In the Stacks: Short Stories About Libraries and Librarians
Michael Cart
Gerald Duckworth 2005 0715633155 - The Virgin Blue
Tracy Chevalier
Harper 2006 0007241461 - The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
Vintage 1992 0749397055 - Magic and Madness in the Library
Eric Graeber
Birch Brook Press 1999 0913559369 - The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
Time Warner 2006 0751537284 - The Grand Complication
Allen Kurzweil
Theia 2002 0786885181 - The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffeneger
Vintage 2005 0099464462 - The Bookseller of Kabul
Asne Seierstad
Virago 2004 1844080471
Booklist compiled by Eileen Armstrong and Chris Brown.
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