Ruurs, Margriet. 2005. My librarian is a camel: how books are brought to children around the world. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, Inc.

The librarian is not truly a camel, but without the assistance of the camel, children in Kenya would not receive books as often as they do now. In My Librarian is a Camel, Margriet Ruurs applies research that began while reading a newspaper about the camel librarians that deliver books to children in Kenya. Ruurs includes 13 countries in her book, where librarians range from human beings who walk up to four hours to deliver books to children and families in Zimbabwe, to elephants who travel for eighteen to twenty days to deliver books to seven or eight villages in Thailand. Other countries such as Australia and Azerbaijan have bookmobiles that deliver books to villages—some even equipped with solar panels to power equipment used to access the Internet. Each section is specific to one country and includes photographs of the book deliverers as well as the children and families that receive the books. Each two-page spread also includes a map of the country, a picture of its flag, and geographical information about the country. The photographs are arranged in such a way as to draw readers’ eyes to the unusual ways that library books are delivered in other parts of the world. The informational text and photographs of children will encourage readers to celebrate the joy of reading and appreciate the closeness of their neighborhood or school library.