books and reading

As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, and demands that Bluejay either surrender or doom the children to slavery in the silver mines.

As Pig tries to write a book, he chastises the reader who keeps interrupting him by turning the pages.

Young Cal, who lives high in the Appalachian Mountains with his family, does not understand his sister's love for books, but the Book Woman always wanders to their home, and Cal's parents are always willing to trade something to keep Cal's sister reading.

A little boy named Sam discovers the many unexpected ways in which a love of reading can come in handy, and sometimes even save the day.

Clara's dream of enriching her rough life on the family farm is fulfilled when a horse-drawn book wagon visits with the country's first traveling library.

When Lola's favorite book is not on the library's shelf, her older brother, Charlie, tries to find another book she will enjoy.

Aunt Chip saves the town of Triple Creek, where everyone has forgotten how to read because of the invasion of television.

Bored with another normal, inky evening, bats discover an open library window and fly in to enjoy the photocopier, water fountain, and especially the books and stories found there.

The school librarian says a book fair is coming to the school, but one little boy has heard some weird things about what will happen.

A young rabbit checks out a library book about wolves and learns much more about their behavior than he wanted to know.