The Library

Sarah Stewart
027 Man

Elizabeth Brown doesn't like to play with dolls and she doesn't like to skate. What she does like to do is read books. Lots of books. The only problem is that her library has gotten so big she can't even use her front door anymore. What should Elizabeth Brown do? Start her own public library, of course! With charming verse and watercolors Sarah Stewart and David Small celebrate one of America's oldest and finest institutions.—Holtzbrinck Publishing



"I remember checking out this book in Kindergarten and wanting so badly to be the main character. The main character is a red-hair with glasses who loves cats and books. She collects so many books that she opens a community library in her home for others to borrow."—Submitted by Amy C., Community and Engagement Librarian


Bicentennial Staff Picks

  • The Chronicles of Amber


  • The Silmarillion


  • In Full Color


  • My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book One


  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time


  • Gilead


  • Prelude to Bruise


  • The Shipping News


  • Fog Island


  • Giver of Stars


  • Braiding Sweetgrass


  • Their Eyes Were Watching God


  • Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein


  • The Mistress of Spices


  • Clear and Present Danger


  • Six Seasons


  • Figuring


  • Siddhartha


  • To Kill A Mockingbird


  • The Word Is Murder


  • I Know This Much is True


  • The Quilter's Apprentice


  • The Friend


  • The Lord of the Rings


  • The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath


  • Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey


  • The Rest is Noise


  • The King's Stilts


  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows


  • VALIS


  • A Little Princess


  • Mouse Guard: Fall 1152


  • The Johnstown Flood


  • Autobiography of an Execution


  • The Raven Boys


  • Foundryside


  • Cinder


  • The Lost Coast


  • Sunny


  • Snotgirl Vol. 1


  • The Brothers Karamazov


  • Copper Beach


  • The Room : A Novel


  • Catch 22


  • Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s


  • Once & Future, Volume 1


  • The Road Less Traveled


  • The Music Lesson


  • Feeling Sorry for Celia


  • The Blue Sword


  • Patriot Games


  • The Library


  • East of Eden


  • Foucault's Pendulum


  • Near to the Wild Heart


  • The Master and Margarita


  • Unterzakhn


  • The Goldfinch


  • The Go-Between


  • In the Dust of This Planet


  • Slaughterhouse Five


  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid


  • Life


  • Dragon's Merry Christmas


  • Rural Free


  • Watchmen


  • Running with Sherman


  • Birdie and Me


  • Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?


  • Ulysses


  • Naked Lunch


  • The Never Game


  • The Little Prince


  • The Snowy Day


  • Robin


  • Simulacra and Simulation


  • Nitro --The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapes of Ted Turner's WCW


  • Castoff: The Strange Adventures of Petra De Winter and Bram


  • The Snow Child


  • Strange Planet


  • Oleanna


  • Dangerous Laughter


  • Fables. 8, Wolves


  • Pretty Deadly, Volume One: The Shrike


  • My Brother's Husband, Vol. 1


  • The Universe in a Nutshell


  • The Licanius Trilogy


  • Look Both Ways : a Tale Told in Ten Blocks


  • Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World


  • Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow


  • Wired


  • Chloe's Vegan Desserts


  • Big Sur


  • Stormy: A Story About Finding a Forever Home


  • Dark of the Moon


  • The Color Monster


  • The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms


  • The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy


  • Tropic of Cancer


  • Hopscotch


  • The Last Wish


  • The Diary of a Young Girl


  • Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale


  • Suttree


  • Riddley Walker


  • The Clan of the Cave Bear


  • The Essential Tales of Chekhov


  • The Luster of Lost Things


  • The Story of Ferdinand


  • Little Bear


  • Matter : a Culture novel


  • Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker


  • Ecology of a Cracker Childhood


  • The Shell Seekers


  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City


  • Through a Life


  • My Name is Asher Lev


  • Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art


  • Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years


  • The House at Pooh Corner


  • Persepolis


  • Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction


  • Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks


  • A Clockwork Orange


  • Growth of the Soil


  • One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish


  • Oreo


  • Dawn


  • A Study in Scarlet Women


  • His Majesty's Dragon


  • Communing With The Divine: A Clairvoyant's Guide To Angels, Archangels and the Spiritual Hierarchy


  • The Index Card


  • The Lifespan of a Fact


  • Spoon River Anthology


  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


  • The Girl From Rawblood


  • The Far Field


  • The New Moosewood Cookbook


  • Three Things About Elsie


  • Raintree County


  • The Eye of Minds


  • War and Peace


  • Do Fish Sleep?


  • Wolf Hall


  • Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero


  • The Ghost Clause


  • The Life and Art of Felrath Hines : from dark to light


  • On A Sunbeam


  • The Stand


  • The Stardust Road


  • Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945


  • The College of Beer : The Story of Nick's English Hut


  • Lost Horizon


  • Dealing with Dragons


  • Dune Messiah


  • Jane Eyre


  • Parable of the Sower


  • Star Wars : from a certain point of view : 40 stories celebrating 40 years of Star Wars


  • Me Talk Pretty One Day


  • Cry, Heart, But Never Break


  • Providence


  • The Woman in the Dunes


  • The Time Traveler's Wife


  • Taproot : a story about a gardener and a ghost


  • The Lost Words: A Spell Book


  • Dune


  • Dietland


  • Wild Beauty


  • Hawkeye omnibus


  • The Travelling Cat Chronicles


  • Warrior of the Wild


  • Under the Volcano


  • Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters


  • True Grit


  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine


  • Anne of Green Gables


  • The Woman in White


  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness


  • The Murderer's Ape


  • X'ed Out


  • Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality


  • The Charterhouse of Parma


  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said


  • The Monkey's Raincoat


  • The Wild Robot


  • Know My Name: A Memoir


  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking


  • Cannery Row


  • The Pirate Coast


  • Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste


  • The Jordan Rules


  • Daisy Jones & The Six


  • Station Eleven


  • Illuminatus! Trilogy


  • The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works


  • Travels With Charley


  • Dragon Bound


  • What is the What


  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


  • Why You Like This Photo : the Science of Perception