Alia's Mission by Mark Alan Stamaty (2004)

This is the second children's book I found about a librarian in Iraq - actually the same librarian. Her story is worth telling. Alia Mohammed Baker, the chief librarian at Basra Central Library sees the war coming in 2003, asks for help officially to protect the library collection, but when she gets no support, takes it upon herself to move as many books as she can to her home and when the fighting begins, to a restaurant next door. The library was destroyed, but she had saved 30,000 books, 70% of the collection. She did have a stroke afterwards, but when she recovered, led the way to reestablish the library. According to the Wikipedia, it was rebuilt in 2004 and she was again chief librarian.

This had more text than The Librarian of Basra and was black and white comic book style with more facts at the end. It is amazing the Iraq is the place where writing was invented, where cuneiform was first used by Sumerians on clay tablets. In 1980 an Italian archeologist found 2,000 of these old clay tablets - because they did not burn like the papyrus of Alexandria.