My Librarian is a Camel

My Librarian is a Camel

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  • Author: Margriet Ruurs
  • Publisher: Astra Publishing House
  • ISBN: 1590780930
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 36

Do you get books from a public library in your town or even in your school library? In many remote areas of the world, there are no library buildings. In many countries, books are delivered in unusual way: by bus, boat, elephant, donkey, train, even by wheelbarrow. Why would librarians go to the trouble of packing books on the backs of elephants or driving miles to deliver books by bus? Because, as one librarian in Azerbaijan says, "Books are as important to us as air or water!" This is the intriguing photo essay, a celebration of books, readers, and libraries.


Mi bibliotecaria es un camello (My Librarian is a Camel)

Mi bibliotecaria es un camello (My Librarian is a Camel)

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  • Author: Margriet Ruurs
  • Publisher: Astra Publishing House
  • ISBN: 1629795356
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : es
  • Pages : 33

Cuando pensamos en una biblioteca, nos imaginamos un edificio en una calle o tal vez una sala en una escuela. Pero algunas bibliotecas no están encerradas entre paredes. Algunas se mueven de un lugar a otro de formas increíbles: en autobús, barco, elefante, burro, tren o incluso en carretilla. Estas innovadoras bibliotecas móviles suelen ser la única manera de llevar libros a la gente que vive en lugares remotos, como las montañas de Tailandia, el desierto Gobi de Mongolia o las zonas rurales de Zimbabue. En lugares como estos, la llegada de las bibliotecas es un gran evento muy anticipado. Sin embargo, los libros nunca llegarían a la gente sin el duro trabajo y la dedicación de los bibliotecarios y voluntarios. Margriet Ruurs, escritora y educadora, se puso en contacto con bibliotecarios de todo el mundo y les pidió que compartieran historias de sus bibliotecas. En muchos casos, los voluntarios y los bibliotecarios tomaron sus cámaras fotográficas y retrataron las caras felices de los niños al recibir los libros. El resultado es este ensayo fotográfico inspirador que celebra los libros, a los lectores y a los bibliotecarios. ¿Por qué los bibliotecarios se toman la molestia de empacar libros en el lomo de un elefante o manejar durante millas para llevar los libros en autobús? Porque, como dice un bibliotecario de Azerbaiyán, “la biblioteca móvil es tan importante como el aire o el agua”.


My Librarian is a Camel

My Librarian is a Camel

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  • Author: Margriet Ruurs
  • Publisher: Astra Publishing House
  • ISBN: 1590780930
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 36

Do you get books from a public library in your town or even in your school library? In many remote areas of the world, there are no library buildings. In many countries, books are delivered in unusual way: by bus, boat, elephant, donkey, train, even by wheelbarrow. Why would librarians go to the trouble of packing books on the backs of elephants or driving miles to deliver books by bus? Because, as one librarian in Azerbaijan says, "Books are as important to us as air or water!" This is the intriguing photo essay, a celebration of books, readers, and libraries.


The Camel Bookmobile

The Camel Bookmobile

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  • Author: Masha Hamilton
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 0061871494
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 338

Fiona Sweeney wants to do something that matters, and she chooses to make her mark in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya. By helping to start a traveling library, she hopes to bring the words of Homer, Hemingway, and Dr. Seuss to far-flung tiny communities where people live daily with drought, hunger, and disease. Her intentions are honorable, and her rules are firm: due to the limited number of donated books, if any one of them is not returned, the bookmobile will not return. But, encumbered by her Western values, Fi does not understand the people she seeks to help. And in the impoverished small community of Mididima, she finds herself caught in the middle of a volatile local struggle when the bookmobile's presence sparks a dangerous feud between the proponents of modernization and those who fear the loss of traditional ways.


Nasreen's Secret School

Nasreen's Secret School

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  • Author: Jeanette Winter
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1442441216
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 40

Renowned picture book creator Jeanette Winter tells the story of a young girl in Afghanistan who attends a secret school for girls. Young Nasreen has not spoken a word to anyone since her parents disappeared. In despair, her grandmother risks everything to enroll Nasreen in a secret school for girls. Will a devoted teacher, a new friend, and the worlds she discovers in books be enough to draw Nasreen out of her shell of sadness? Based on a true story from Afghanistan, this inspiring book will touch readers deeply as it affirms both the life-changing power of education and the healing power of love.


Rain School

Rain School

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  • Author: James Rumford
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ISBN: 0547505000
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 37

Shows how important learning is in a country where only a few children are able to go to school.


Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Journeys

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Journeys

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  • Author: Various
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • ISBN: 9780547885520
  • Category : Language arts (Elementary)
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 792


Alia's Mission

Alia's Mission

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  • Author: Mark Alan Stamaty
  • Publisher: Dragonfly Books
  • ISBN: 037585763X
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 34

The inspiring story of an Iraqi librarian's courageous fight to save books from the Basra Central Library before it was destroyed in the war. It is 2003 and Alia Muhammad Baker, the chief librarian of the Central Library in Basra, Iraq, has grown worried given the increased likelihood of war in her country. Determined to preserve the irreplacable records of the culture and history of the land on which she lives from the destruction of the war, Alia undertakes a courageous and extremely dangerous task of spiriting away 30,000 books from the library to a safe place. Told in dramatic graphic-novel panels by acclaimed cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty, Alia's Mission celebrates the importance of books and the freedom to read, while examining the impact of war on a country and its people.


Down Cut Shin Creek

Down Cut Shin Creek

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  • Author: Kathi Appelt
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 0060291354
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 74

It's 4:30 in the morning, and the "book woman" and her horse are already on their way. Hers is an important job, for the folks along her treacherous route are eager for the tattered books and magazines she carries in her saddlebags. During the Great Depression, thousands lived on the brink of starvation. Many perished. In 1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Works Progess Administration under his 1933 New Deal initiative. The WPA was designed to get people back on their feet. One of its most innovative programs was the Pack Horse Library Project of Eastern Kentucky. Thoroughly researched and illustrated with period photographs, this is the story of one of the WPA's greatest successes. People all over the country supported the project's goals. But it was the librarians themselves -- young, determined, and earning just $28 a month -- who brought the hope of a wider world to people in the crooks and hollows of Kentucky's Cumberland Mountains.


That Book Woman

That Book Woman

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  • Author: Heather Henson
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1442439599
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 40

An exquisitely illustrated paean to everyone who struggles to learn how to read, and to everyone who won’t give up on them. Cal is not the readin' type. Living way high up in the Appalachian Mountains, he'd rather help Pap plow or go out after wandering sheep than try some book learning. Nope. Cal does not want to sit stoney-still reading some chicken scratch. But that Book Woman keeps coming just the same. She comes in the rain. She comes in the snow. She comes right up the side of the mountain, and Cal knows that's not easy riding. And all just to lend his sister some books. Why, that woman must be plain foolish—or is she braver than he ever thought? That Book Woman is a rare and moving tale that honors a special part of American history—the Pack Horse Librarians, who helped untold numbers of children see the stories amid the chicken scratch, and thus made them into lifetime readers.