Philip and Erin Stead, author and illustrator of 2011 Caldecott winner A Sick Day for Amos McGee, read books to children at the Noyes Library in February 2012.

Dear Friends of Noyes,

Like a favorite children's book, the Noyes Children's Library is warmth and security, fun and adventure. It's a place to launch your child's love of books and reading, and a place to gather and celebrate the magic of young minds awakening.

The idea of NO Noyes Library is awful - so awful that when the county threatened to close the Library due to budget cuts in March of 2010, the public outcry brought the Noyes Children's Library Foundation - founded in 1991 during a similar crisis - out of hibernation and back into a public-private partnership that funds the operating costs of Noyes.

So Noyes is a YES - for now. Through individual donations, grants, sponsors, and special events, the Foundation raised the money for FY 2011, and made a good start on FY '12. But here's where you come in. Magic isn't free. We need to complete basic funding for FY 2012, and we need to fund the joint effort by Montgomery County Libraries and the Foundation to enhance Noyes Library.

Click here to find out how you can help.