Library
The Willows Library - a vibrant 21st-century environment located at the heart of our campus–is a hub for collaboration and cross-disciplinary learning. Intellectually and architecturally open, the library offers a spacious environment where students, teachers, and library staff share, question, listen and learn from one another.
Reaching every corner of our campus - with glass doors opening to our yard, the Library has a bustling, inviting atmosphere with students of all ages checking out books, reading on sofas, listening to a story in the book corner, or researching on laptops.
With 27,000+ resources including digital and print books, playaways, Tablets, iPads, iPods, Mac minis, audiobooks, DVD’s, E-books, and a wide range of databases, teacher resources, and streaming services, our library most definitely has it all.
The library program is the intersection of source literacy, media literacy, and information literacy, focusing on teaching critical research and strong research skills to help students judge the credibility of news and information. The library links The Willows to our Los Angeles and national communities by hosting visiting authors, speakers, librarians, and educators to exchange ideas.
Author Visits - throughout the year, we invite visiting authors and illustrators to speak with our students to offer them insights on the world of publishing and storytelling. Past guests include Jason Reynolds, Sharon Draper, Samira Ahmed, Meg Wolitzer, Holly Goldberg Sloan, Alex Killian, Tad Hills, Jasmine Warge, Phil Bildner, and Kwame Alexander.
Robb Armstrong is an African American cartoonist, best known for creating the comic strip Jump Start. Jump Start is the most widely syndicated daily strip written by an African American.
Alex Killian is an American author of children's books. Her picture book, This Table, will be followed by In-Between Places. She comes from a film background.
LeYuen Pham is a children's book illustrator and author. She has illustrated and written more than 120 books. In 2020, she won a Caldecott Honor for her illustrations in the book Bear Came Along.
Tad Hills is an American children’s book author and illustrator. He is the creator of the New York Times bestselling Rocket and Duck & Goose books.
Phil Bildner is a New York Times bestselling author and an award recipient for books such as, A High Five for Glenn Burke, and Marvelous Cornelius.
Jasmine Warga is the New York Times-bestselling author of middle grade novels Other Words For Home, The Shape of Thunder, and A Rover’s Story.
Jessica McKay is a New York Times bestselling author for the picture book, Always with You.
Gordon Korman is a Canadian author of children's and young adult fiction books. Korman's books have sold more than 30 million copies and have appeared at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list.
The beauty of our library is its dynamic, fluid quality. It allows quiet individual exploration, as well as small and large group discourse and sharing. Everyone feels connected–a true community of learners.
Lisa Rosenstein, Head of School
Addressing Current Topics & Events
The Library–A Hub of Learning
The beauty of our library is its dynamic fluid quality. It allows quiet individual exploration, as well as small and large group discourse and sharing. Everyone feels connected-a true community of learners.
- Kate Rao, Librarian
“Libraries are no longer simply archives of books, but rather centers of learning that combine many different types of resources and experiences to broaden the human experience.” Cathy Leverkus, Emeritus Director of Library