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!

<i>arc provided by the publisher via netgalley in exchange for an honest review</i>

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. 😊

So You Want To Build a Library by Lindsay Leslie is one of my favorite books of 2021! As a fellow book lover and library lover, I loved the imagery in the book and how it encourages children to read. This would be a great book book to read to children to introduce them to the library. It would be a great book to read in a classroom setting or a story time setting. Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read this book. (This review is also on GoodReads.)

Hmmm... Lively and fun look at a fantasy library, built with the help of fantasy characters and designed to contain all the fantasy elements a young reader might wish for in a library, but... I guess the circular design of the plot, and the second person narration ("you need this, you do that, you get the giant to do the other") will both work for the target audience, but they didn't make this feel quite so appealing to me. What it does do is brightly and colourfully prove that libraries are all-inclusive places, but the reality is that good ones are becoming as scarce as the well-trained dragons we're told they're supposed to have. I hope this works, then, but I didn't quite get on the same wavelength for some reason. Three and a half stars.

A good story about a little girl who dreams of what she will keep in her library. Nothing stops her imagination and it shows in her wild fantasies. A good story for really young readers.
The illustrations are pretty cute.
Thank you, NetGalley and Capstone Editions, for the Advanced Review Copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

An imaginative, playful celebration of stories and books, filled with fun and fantastical characters and enchanted with the special brand of magic found only in books.

So you want to build a library? What do you put inside one?
Lovely children's book celebrating the joy of reading and the magical places we know as libraries!

I would like to thank the publisher and netgalley for providing me a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

Children will really enjoy this fantastic story of a girl building the object of her favorite interest and dreams. Fun, humorous, and colorful book!

Review to come July 31st to blog/goodreads.

I received this book from Netgalley/publisher in exchange of an honest review.

How can I, as a bookworm, resist this adorable and fun sounding book? That's right, I cannot! I just had to get this one! 

In this book we meet a little girl who is a giant bookworm and decides to build a big, magical, fun, library! I loved seeing her get the idea and then try to make it reality. From grabbing things left and right (doesn't matter if anyone was using it given that she took the dining table mid meal :P ) to finding the perfect spot to build it, to getting help from friends and fantasy/imaginary creatures. Yep, everyone is here to help this girl out! I loved seeing knights, giants, animals, and more help out to make this girl's dreams come true. They know that they can also benefit from a fun library! I have to say, given everything, that the library looked a bit unstable, though from the inside it was perfect. 

Because the library itself? BOY, I want to go there! Sundaes (though not in the way I know them), ladders (I love that as you can reach books easily then, though in this one it looks like it could also lead to adventures), books books and more books, and anything else you may want to find in a library. That is definitely a library for me! 

The art was also such a delight and I really liked the style! 

All in all, this is the perfect book for us bookworms who love going to libraries! This one is a dream come true.

Beautifully illustrated book, perfect for introducing or talking about books to your little ones. Whether they are just getting into books, or you want to talk to them bout books and libraries, this is perfect way to start.

Our little bookish heroine has the wildest library ever, with everything from a sundae bar to a water slide.

I absolutely love it and think it's a fun, imaginative book, that can get those creative juices flowing (although we all know most of our little ones don't need help with activating their imagination). In any case, I recommend it!