'So You Want To Build a Library' by Lindsay Leslie is What Childhood Me Needed

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Title: So You Want To Build a Library
Author: Lindsay Leslie
Illustrator: Aviel Basil
Publisher: Capstone Editions
Pub. date: 1 August 2021
Series: none
Pages: 32
Genre: children’s fiction

There is no better place in the world than a library. Especially a library that kids create! A million stories high? Sure. Bathtubs? Absolutely. A full-service sundae bar? Of course. Everything is possible in this library–just like in books!
Author Lindsay Leslie puts the reader in charge as the architect of a fantastical library in this imaginative picture book celebrating libraries and the joys of reading.

Lindsay Leslie allows the reader to assemble a dream library in this gorgeously illustrated children’s book. This is the type of book I would have carried around with me if I had read this when I was a kid. I would have probably followed the step-by-step instructions and built my own library by then too!

My favourite thing about So You Want To Build a Library is that it would inspire such a great dream in any bookworm kid’s mind. I wish I had this book when I was a kid so that I could build my own library and reading nook!