Lola Loves Stories

I love the way this book provides a counter-narrative to the popular refrain of the absent black father. But not only is Lola's father present, he is actively participating in her literacy development. He even creates a story for Lola that effects her more than any other stories that she reads. The......more

Author/illustrator team Anna McQuinn and Rosalind Beardshaw return in this, their second charming picture-book about a little girl named Lola (Lulu in the original British editions), and her love of books and stories. In Lola at the Library, our toddler heroine accompanied her mother on a weekly......more

Just as Lola loves Saturday library dates with her dad and imagining herself as the characters in the books she reads (whether a pilot, farmer, or tiger), we love Lola books and appreciate the nod to _Where the Wild Things Are_ at the end of the book.......more

Lola's imagination gets a little bit of help from her weekly visits to her local library. Each day brings in a new adventure based on the previous night's bedtime story.......more