books and reading

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.

An all-night read-a-thon at the Sleepy Hollow Elementary School turns into a treasure hunt when the kids read about hidden treasure in the school basement.

Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.

A raccoon and his friends go to great lengths to make sure they will always have a library from which to borrow books.

At bedtime, a young boy who cannot find his favorite book imagines the various creatures that might have taken it from him.

A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.

A young bear who is fascinated by the mysterious marks he sees on paper finds a friend when a kind woman reads to him.

A verse evocation of the joys of books, libraries, and reading.

When the children go back to school, the animals on the farm are bored, so they go into the library in town trying to find something to do.

Miss Malarkey vows to find each of her students a book to love by the end of the school year, but one video-game loving boy proves to be a challenge.