"The Works Progress Administration's Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky program ran from 1935 to 1943. At its height it brought books to more than a hundred thousand rural inhabitants." Author Jojo Moyes writes this novel based on a true story of a small group of women who served in a small town and its surrounding rural area. They were "The Giver of Stars." A sampler in their small library said "To Seek Knowledge Is To Expand Your Own Universe." The books they provided taught children and adults how to read and enjoy "the diversion and hope that a good story could bring." They read about how to improve their daily lives and received a view of other worlds and other times.
Margery, Alice, Beth, Isabelle, Kathleen, and Sophia were the librarians in their small Kentucky town. The people who lived in the surrounding rural area looked forward to each women arriving on horseback with bags of books from the library. The librarians lives were also enriched as they learned about each family on their routes.
