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A young librarian rides a pack horse through the mountains to deliver books to children in Appalachia during the Great Depression.

Bunny askes everyone she knows how to make grape jelly, but when she gets wildly different responses she hops to her local library to track down the answer.

When Littletown Library is destroyed by a tornado, it seems like book-loving Nia is the only one who cares; so she starts the "new free library" under the tree where she used to read, and writes out familiar stories and rhymes that are just a little bit wrong, and encourages the people who check them out to correct them--until soon the whole of Littletown is filled with people reading and writing books.

"Five-year-old Pari accompanies her mother on her library bus rounds for the first time, stopping at a village and a refugee camp so that girls there can exchange books and have a lesson in English.

"Zach would much rather watch TV than flip through a boring book.

Leilong's friends are taking him to story time at the library. But it's difficult for a large brontosaurus without a library card to follow the rules.

In an unnamed city, the town library is destroyed by an act of war, causing fear and sadness in the hearts of the townspeople.

A ghost who haunts a town library and a young girl team up to save the ancient building from demolition.

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.

"After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert.

"As the two of them walk through the busy town, Grandpa shares the favorite places he and his own grandpa went together.

Forced to take shelter when their Syrian city is plagued with bombings, young Nour and her cousin begin to bravely build a secret underground library.

"Lila Lou loves to read, morning, noon and night. Books are everywhere in her house.

A voracious young reader pens a love letter to libraries and books, and powerfully expresses the need for diversity and the importance of representation in stories.

A story in which readers from everywhere pore over books, each with their own questions, ideas to explore, hopes for the future, and imaginations ready to spark, showing the many ways books can foster connection and empower children.