Celebrate Children's Book Week!

With literacy rates in the United States decreasing and increasingly larger numbers of students failing to pass reading proficiency exams, the need for Children's Book Week today is as essential as it was upon its beginning in 1919.

Children’s Book Week introduces young people to authors, illustrators, and books and encourages children and their caregivers to discover the complexity of the world beyond their own experience through books.

Children’s Book Week 2006 is observed this week, November 13th - 19th, with the theme for this 87th annual observance being "More Books, Please!"

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The Newberry Medal chapter-book-level titles and the Caldecott Medal primary/picture-book-level titles are excellent lists to start with, but when you next visit us at the library's Reference Desk with your children and encourage them to ask for "More Books, Please," we'll be delighted to recommend additional books to thrill their imagination.