“Research has shown when young children can see the illustrations and the art on the cover of a book, they will check books out at a higher rate,” Armendariz-Maxwell said. “I’ve already seen a heightened excitement from the students. We’ve also chosen bookcases that are shorter, which allows us to use the tops of these bookcases to display even more books.”
Carpentersville’s Sunny Hill school library transformed from ‘book warehouse’ to modern learning center
