“What are the best Children’s books about Libraries ?” We looked at 180 of the top Kids Libraries books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!

The top 14 titles, all appearing on 3 or more “Best Kids Library ” book lists, are ranked below by how many lists they appear on. The remaining 150+ titles, as well as the lists we used are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.

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Top 14 Best Children’s Books About Libraries

14 .) My Librarian Is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to Children Around the World written by Margriet Ruurs

Lists It Appears On:

• Goodreads
• Imagination Soup
• Reading Rockets

Describes unusual mobile libraries found around the world.

13 .) The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians written by Carla Morris

Lists It Appears On:

• Book Kids Blog
• Flashlight Worthy Books
• Goodreads

Melvin discovers that the public library is the place where he can find just about anything–including three librarians who help in his quest for knowledge.

12 .) The Library written by Sarah Stewart

Lists It Appears On:

• A Mighty Girl
• Goodreads
• Imagination Soup

Elizabeth Brown loves to read more than anything else, but when her collection of books grows and grows, she must make a change in her life.

11 .) The Storyteller’s Candle/La velita de los cuentos written by Lucia M. Gonzalez

Lists It Appears On:

• A Mighty Girl
• Book Kids Blog
• Goodreads

During the early days of the Great Depression, New York City’s first Puerto Rican librarian, Pura Belpré, introduces the public library to immigrants living in El Barrio and hosts the neighborhood’s first Three Kings’ Day fiesta.

10 .) Waiting for the Biblioburro written by Monica Brown

Lists It Appears On:

• Book Riot
• Goodreads
• Imagination Soup

When a man brings to a remote village two burros, Alfa and Beto, loaded with books the children can borrow, Ana’s excitement leads her to write a book of her own as she waits for the BibliBurro to return. Includes glossary of Spanish terms and a note on the true story of Columbia’s BiblioBurro and mobile libraries in other countries.…

9 .) Bats at the Library written by Brian Lies

Lists It Appears On:

• Flashlight Worthy Books
• Goodreads
• Read Brightly
• Reading Rockets

Bored with another normal, inky evening, bats discover an open library window and fly in to enjoy the photocopier, water fountain, and especially the books and stories found there.

8 .) Library Mouse (Library Mouse #1) written by Daniel Kirk

Lists It Appears On:

• Book Kids Blog
• Flashlight Worthy Books
• Goodreads
• Reading Rockets

Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books but when children find the tales, they all want to meet the author.

7 .) The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore written by William Joyce

Lists It Appears On:

• Book Riot
• Goodreads
• Pernillesripp
• Read Brightly

Morris Lessmore loves words, stories and books; after a powerful storm carries him to another land, dreary and colorless, he finds a single book in color that leads him to an amazing library where, he learns, the books need him as much as he needs them.…

6 .) The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq written by Jeanette Winter

Lists It Appears On:

• Flashlight Worthy Books
• Goodreads
• Pernillesripp
• Reading Rockets

Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library–along with the thirty thousand books within it–will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians–especially women–have little power, this true story about a librarian’s struggle to save her community’s priceless collection of books reminds us all how, throughout the world, the love of literature and the respect for knowledge know no boundaries.…

5 .) The Lonely Book written by Kate Bernheimer

Lists It Appears On:

• A Mighty Girl
• Book Kids Blog
• Goodreads
• Pernillesripp

Once popular, an increasingly shabby library book grows lonely until a young girl rediscovers it, but when it becomes lost again both the book and the girl wonder if they will have a happy ending.

4 .) Tomas and the Library Lady written by Pat Mora

Lists It Appears On:

• Book Kids Blog
• Goodreads
• Imagination Soup
• Reading Rockets

While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.

3 .) Library Lion written by Michelle Knudsen

Lists It Appears On:

• Flashlight Worthy Books
• Goodreads
• Pernillesripp
• Read Brightly
• Reading Rockets

An affectionate storybook tribute to that truly wonderful place: the library. Miss Merriweather, the head librarian, is very particular about rules in the library. No running allowed. And you must be quiet. But when a lion comes to the library one day, no one is sure what to do. There aren’t any rules about lions in the library. And, as it turns out, this lion seems very well suited to library visiting. His big feet are quiet on the library floor. He makes a comfy backrest for the children at story hour. And he never roars in the library, at least not anymore. But when something terrible happens, the lion quickly comes to the rescue in the only way he knows how. Michelle Knudsen’s disarming story, illustrated by the matchless Kevin Hawkes in an expressive timeless style, will win over even the most ardent of rule keepers.

2 .) That Book Woman written by Heather Henson

Lists It Appears On:

• A Mighty Girl
• Book Kids Blog
• Goodreads
• Imagination Soup
• Reading Rockets

A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the “Book Woman”–a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.

1 .) Lola at the Library written by Anna McQuinn

Lists It Appears On:

• A Mighty Girl
• Book Kids Blog
• Book Riot
• Goodreads
• Imagination Soup
• Pre-K Pages

Every Tuesday Lola and her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat.

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