You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Libraries! (You Wouldn't Want to Live Without...)

By Fiona MacDonald

Book Overview

Libraries are the keepers of the world's memory.

This series takes readers (Ages 8-12) on a historical journey, examining how people coped in the past and how they developed ingenious ways to make life safer and less unpleasant. Each book features full-color cartoon-style illustrations and hilarious speech bubbles to heighten interest, making the series attractive even to reluctant readers.For 5,000 years and more, libraries have been gathering and preserving writings of all kinds. They're storehouses of knowledge, and imagination, and fun. Learn about how these places and their collections of written words allow us to check our facts, find important information, share stories, beliefs and ideas, build communities, make things, and learn valuable life skills.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531128113
• ISBN13: 9780531128114
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Franklin Watts
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6