Tuesday, 11 September 2007

Picture Book Parade

a mouse reading a book
We have thousands of picture books for younger readers in our libraries. The story books include many favourite characters including Postman Pat, Kipper and Maisie. There are also lots of books telling stories in rhyme, which are great fun for reading and sharing (there's some brilliant bedtime reading amongst them!) And many of the books are introductions to the world around us, involving colours and shapes, animals and machines, and people of course!

We've listed a few of these titles in our Picture Book Parade. If you want to find more picture books, follow the links in the authors' names or the series. And you can see far, far more in any of our libraries!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Which library has these books?

  said...

Each of the titles listed is a link to an entry in the online Library Catalogue. So, for instance, if you click on "Buster's Zoo" you'll go to the Catalogue entry that tells you that we've got 20 copies (at the moment), which libraries hold copies and what's happening to them (the status). If the status is "In" that copy should be on the shelf at the library.

The Collection and Item Type information's useful. Most collections and item types are available for loan but some, such as "Reference" are only for use within the library. You may see that some copies of these picture books are in the Storytime Collection. This collection's held backstage for use by library staff in under-fives' storytimes.

HTH

Steven