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  • Published: 8 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9781632173188
  • Imprint: Sasquatch Children's
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $39.99

Library Girl

How Nancy Pearl Became America's Most Celebrated Librarian



Library Girl is the inspiring childhood story of how beloved librarian, author, and Seattle icon, Nancy Pearl discovered her strengths and realized her passion.  It is a loving tribute to the power books and librarians have to transform children’s lives.

Library Girl is the inspiring childhood story of how beloved librarian, author, and Seattle icon, Nancy Pearl discovered her strengths and realized her passion.  It is a loving tribute to the power books and librarians have to transform children’s lives.

Nancy Pearl loved books and spent so much time in her school library that her grade school classmates teased her, calling her “library girl.”  When she discovers her neighborhood public library is open on Saturday, she begins the adventure of her lifetime. There, an inspiring librarian recognizes her abilities, recommends books that ignite her vivid imagination, and provides experiences to bolster her burgeoning self-confidence.  As she loses herself in the books she finds herself in their pages and comes to recognize her strengths. Her self-discovery brings a realization at a young age that she wants to become a librarian so she can help children discover their dreams. 
 
This young girl, Nancy Pearl, grows up to become “America’s Most Celebrated Librarian,” devoting her life to talking about books up and down library aisles, on radio and television, at conferences and colleges around the world. Ultimately, she authors books about books, believing that reading allows people to find dreams of their own . . . with the turn of every page.
 

  • Published: 8 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9781632173188
  • Imprint: Sasquatch Children's
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $39.99

Praise for Library Girl

Every child deserves a librarian like Nancy Pearl, and every young reader--shy or bold--needs a book like Library Girl by Karen Henry Clark. She tells Nancy Pearl's story from childhood on. Nancy Pearl was a real and important and amazing librarian. And a force for good and change in the library world. 
--Jane Yolen, author of Caldecott-winning Owl Moon and over 400 other books