Lola loves to hear Daddy read a new library book each night, an activity that spurs her imagination and results in inventive play the next day.

Otter and his friends visit the library, where they discover that they can go anywhere and have as many adventures as they want by reading books.

On Wednesday nights when Grandma stays with Anna everyone thinks she is teaching Anna to read.

"Snappsy's ordinary day is interrupted by a meddling narrator"--

Pig loves books, both big and small, and reads them at school, at home, and on the bus.

Once popular, an increasingly shabby library book grows lonely until a young girl rediscovers it, but when it becomes lost again both the book and the girl wonder if they will have a happy ending.

After Nobody destroys the connection between fictional and nonfictional worlds, causing nonfictional people to lose their imaginations, Owen and Bethany must risk everything to save multiple realities.

Duck finds a book and is surprised to discover that there are books with words and no pictures--and that even without pictures a book can interest and excite you.

When fifth-grader Trip Kindleman, who does not like to read very much, is hit on the head by a heavy box and becomes a character in a series of different books--from a sports story to a science fiction novel to an adventure tale--his view of reading is changed forever.

Provides simple, step-by-step instructions for teaching a slug how to read, including using Mother Slug rhymes, helping your slug sound out words, and making vocabulary lists.