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Brown, Monica.
WAITING FOR THE BIBLIOBURRO
New York : Tricycle Press, 2011
IL K-3, RL 3.9
ISBN 1582463980
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In a remote village in Columbia, Ana wakes to the morning.  She longs for the day when she had a teacher who had books.  Her teacher gave her a book of her very own but Ana has read it so many times that she knows it by heart.  One day, she sees a man on a donkey with a sign that says Biblioburro.  He is a librarian and he travels by burro to remote villages lending out books.  Just how far would you go for a book?
SUBJECTS:     Biblioburro -- Fiction.
                        Books and reading -- Fiction.
                        Libraries -- Fiction.
                        Soriano, Luis -- Fiction.
                        Colombia -- Fiction.
                        Picture books for children.

 
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