Saturday, September 9, 2017

The Man Who Loved Libraries: The Story of Andrew Carnegie - ADVISABLE

Larsen, Andrew The Man Who Loved Libraries: The Story of Andrew Carnegie.  PICTURE BOOK. Illustrated by Katty Maurey.  OwlKids, 2017.  $19.

Andrew Carnegie immigrated to the US when he was twelve, where he and his father worked long hours in a cotton mill.  But Andrew loved to learn and little by little he learned and earned until he reached a point when he could turn around and make learning easier for other through building public libraries – 2500 in all.

Any librarian will of course love this book.  It would work well as a beginning biography and includes source material for further research. I’m not completely sold on the illustrations, but I like the narrative very much.

EL (K-3), EL – ADVISABLE.  Cindy, Library Teacher

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