books and reading

A boy who loves books but has not always treated them well falls asleep and finds himself in his book of fairy tales, where his interaction with everyone from Goldilocks to Cinderella wreaks havoc.

Brief rhyming text and colorful illustrations tell what happens when parents and children share twenty minutes a day reading.

With summer coming to an end, about-to-be-fourth-grader Moxy Maxwell does a hundred different things to avoid reading her assigned summer reading book.

A boy and his pet dragon go to story time and take out books from the library.

A young pig must choose among six tempting books to read.

A loving and sensitive book-loving little girl teaches her brother to enjoy books.

Nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when he'll be able to read.

Eleven-year-old Augie Boretski dreams of escaping his run-down Camden, New Jersey, neighborhood, but things start to turn around with help from a Big Brother, a music teacher, and a mysterious bookstore owner, so when his school is in trouble, he pulls the community together to save it.

When their mother starts dropping them off at the library several afternoons a week, nine-year-old William and his brother dread boredom and the overbearing librarian, but they are surprised at how things turn out.

Maisy goes to the library in search of a book about fish and a quiet place in which to read it.