The Jellybeans--four friends who have different strengths and talents--work together to make their book reports a success and to promote a love of reading.

Mr. Putter and Mrs. Teaberry bring Tabby and Zeke to the library for a special storytime.

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel -- a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

Dog loves books so much that he decides to open a book store.

Describes the characteristics and various advantages of reading.

"In this book with no pictures, the reader has to say every silly word, no matter what"--

In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road.
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly...

When each family member reads a book to the new baby bear, they each hope that their name will be the baby's first words, but at a family celebration everyone is happily surprised.

Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Wembley after losing his beloved wife. He worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries. Aleisha is a bright teenager working at the local library for the summer. She discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird; it is a list of novels that she has never heard of, and she impulsively decides...

A young starling chooses to read books when his cousins are learning to fly, and the knowledge he acquires comes in handy when a hurricane threatens the flock's migration.