This is a cute book with a great story line. The illustrations are eye catching and bright. This is a fun story to share with young kids about how books and libraries can take us anywhere when we read!

This is a super cute story with great pictures and lots of imaginative details. I love the pattern of the story and how nicely it sets up opportunities to ask your children to predict what might come next - with some expected (and unexpected!) outcomes. This story also lends itself well to follow up activities for imagining their own special buildings. Would be a great addition to a home or classroom library.

Silly, cute book with nice illustrations. Kids will enjoy reading about how the child in the book is creating a library.

Debated between 4 and 5 stars. This book is for children. As a young reader, I loved the thought of having my own library. My brother didn't really like the idea of checking out books to borrow them. I wish I had envisioned writing a book as creative as this one!

Easy to read. Adorable. Beautiful and interesting pictures. Very creative.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher (Capstone Editions) and the author Lindsay Leslie for the opportunity to review this book in exchange for an honest review.

So You Want To Build a Library is a children's book for ages 4-7. It follows a young child who dreams of all the wacky things they would do, if they were building a library! The read aloud time for this book is approximately between 5-10 minutes.

After reading this book, the first question you should ask yourself is... “Do I want to build a library?” Because the answer can only be “YES!” When you are being confronted by the possibilities of sundae bars, slides, and bath tubs in your library. The illustrations by Aviel Basil bring to life Lindsey Leslie's vibrant world. This would be a great book for starting a conversation about imagination and literacy. and would pair extremely well with activity worksheets. It could also work as a book that's read at the start of story time before other books.

My critique is that the book could have taken it further than a quick, fun read through developing a greater narrative, teaching a lesson, or improving children's knowledge through the story. It has a lot of potential but outside of imagining the fun things that would go into a library, there is not much else that happens in this story. This is, unfortunately, not a book that I would purchase for my classroom because of these points.

I received a free copy of this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

My family and I love silly books, and this one did not disappoint! What kid doesn't want ladders, trampolines and unlimited ice cream sundae's in their own library?! Each page made my kids laugh and the illustrations were bright, expressive and very colorful. I could see this being part of a series - do you want to build a: house, campground, school, etc. Very fun book!

So You Want to Build a Library is incredibly imaginative and adventurous. My kids loved every bit of of it, especially the fairies and dragons! This will be a story for all ages to enjoy as they develop their love for books and all things reading. Parents can appreciate the creativity.

Loved the concept of this book! What's more fun than a book about loving books and building your own fantastic library? This would be a great addition to any library. It encourages creativity and dreaming.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Capstone and the author for the advanced reader’s copy in exchange for my honest review.

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!

This book is easy to read with fun, colourful illustrations that I believe is necessary for every library.

As soon as I finished reading this book, I immediately emailed the librarian at my school and told her she needed if! I think this is the perfect book for a librarian to start the school year with. It is so fun and makes me want to think about what I’d have in my library if I could build one. Super cute pictures too! Love if!

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This little book was such a joy to flip through!

Each page had adorable illustrations and was super colourful which I know will attract any child’s eye! I really enjoyed the rhymes in this story and all of the added words that were silly and funny.

I really think kids are going to have a blast with this book. Hopefully it encourages them to start a library of their very own!

5/5⭐️

This is a fun picture book. The illustrations are very colorful and capture the eye. The characters are diverse, with the main girl and her family having darker skin and hair. I love that the book promotes reading, the library, and books. It is a little silly (roller-skating sloths! pie-baking snails!) and encourages kids to use their imagination by featuring giants, dragons, and fairies.

Such a clever thought provoking book about architecture, design and imagination, boosted by bold bright and cheerful illustrations, by Aviel Basil.

A 2nd person POV picture-book to get you thinking about what could be involved in making a library and what you could have inside your library; your dream library. But also getting the reader thinking and making their own decisions on what they like and how things work. And generally thinking ‘outside of the box’, using their imagination to come up with unique ideas about designing a space, to cater for all manner of people and creatures and thinking about what is important to them, when designing a space. Making sure you consider what makes a space fun and beautiful and practical.

I would say this book is one of those fab books that children would want to read more than once and for that reason alone, I give it top marks. It is fun, interactive and promotes imagination in a child. I will definitely look out for more of Lindsay Leslie’s work.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book. Unfortunately, I do not have the capability to read it not in kindle form. Thank you.

So You Want to Build a Library is a fun book about an creative girl who loves reading planning and building a new library. The illustrations were great and captured my attention. A perfect book for an imaginative child who loves reading!

Thank you Capstone and NetGalley for providing this ARC.

So You Want To Build A Library? ...Umm yeah! Only since I was a little wee lass! How could I not pick this book up?!

So You Want To Build A Library by Lindsay Leslie is an enjoyable and cute book that begins to describe wonders of the library to a young reader. It puts the reader in the driver's seat to build a library. The illustrations are cute and have everything kids (both big and small) could want. I'll take the unlimited sundae bar, please.

I enjoyed this book and as with most books I read with the kids, we began a discussion of what we would put in our own libraries, which led into our next trip to our local library itself. If that is one of the goals of this book... It's a SUCCESS!

The only thing that stopped this from being a 5 star review was the way we are told what we needed in order to build the library. We were directed, which limited the kids imagination of their own fantastical library.

This story is definitely a conversation starter and can help foster the love budding bibliophiles will develop for the library as we have before them.

What would a library build by a child who loves books look like? Like the zaniest, coziest, funnest place in the world! In "So You Want to Build a Library," see how one child designs their library, and maybe encourage a child of your own to imagine theirs as well..

This book is adorable! As a child, it would have been something that would have inspired me to draw and design a library of my own. It is a book that keeps a child's mind going long after the covers have been closed, and that it an important and lasting trait of any children's book.

This adorable book appeals to the bibliophile in all of us— you love books, you love the characters and the worlds they brings to life, so why not build a library? This book takes us through a fantastical library that stretches the imagination, one that includes ice cream and zip lines and fairy nooks, in addition to all the best reading material.

This book is beautifully illustrated and a heartwarming read.

This is a cute and fun book for budding bibliophiles about creating a library of your very own. The illustrations are great and very engaging making this is a great read about for little ones.
Many thanks to Capstone Editions and NetGalley for the advance copy.

Thanks to NetGalley for providing an arc in exchange for an honest review.

Wow! This book was absolutely beautiful!
I was attracted to this straight away because of the title, I mean who doesn’t want to build a library.

This book really keyed into the imagination of young children, the (beautiful) illustrations showed how children build their own worlds using found objects. What might seem to be a pile of random objects from an adult perspective is a rich and wonderful world in the eyes of a child.

I also love that the book was talking to the reader directly, making it feel very personable, I feel like this will hook children’s interests.
I can’t wait to share this book with my class. 😊