It's never dull in the library! Silly stories and lively characters teach book basics, from how a book is made to understanding the Dewey Decimal System.

Brief text and color photographs describe the steps in making a book, from idea to manuscript to layout to printer to library.

It's never dull in the library! Silly stories and lively characters teach book basics, from how a book is made to understanding the Dewey Decimal System.

Perry likes pizza and pingpong. But one day he wonders what kind of pizza professional pingpong players would pick. When he can't find the answers at the library, Perry decides to write his own book. Follow Perry's idea from beginning to end, and find out how his big idea becomes a book.

Follow Quinn and his trusty pen, Penny, as they figure out how to research in the library by reading books, searching internet, and watching documentaries.

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.

Bored Bella and her class visit a library and learn about the difference between fiction and nonfiction books and how libraries organize them.