The aim of this study is to explore and deepen the knowledge about how school librarians work to promote reading and how it is experienced and described by boys in grade five. Through semi-structured interviews with six students and three school librarians, both perspectives of reading promotion work were examined. For this study I used Chambers (2011) theory about the circle of reading. Collected empirical data was analyzed through qualitative content analysis. The results of the study showed that boys do not perceive the reading promotion work to the same extent as the school librarians describe how they work to promote reading.