books and reading

The author presents a memoir of her life in post-revolutionary Iran, focusing on her organization of a group of young women in 1997 who met secretly once a week to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature.

A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a packhorse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.

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.

Discusses more than 100 books and authors who are among the greatest writers and thinkers of western civilization.

Slate is a Cliffhanger, a page who retreives books from the skyscraper tall shelves of the Library of Doom, but when he opens a particular book located in the forbidden Black Shelves he releases the evil Scrawler, who defaces him--and only with the help of the blind Blue Librarian can he correct his mistake.

Piggie realizes that she and Gerald the elephant are in a book and that she can make the reader say words, but when Gerald comes to understand the danger of the book ending, Piggie comes up with a solution to get the reader to keep reading.

Poppleton the pig makes a friend, reads a library book about adventure, and helps a sick friend get better.

When various forest animals discover a mysterious object in the woods, they each use it for a different purpose, until a boy reads stories aloud from it, much to the animals' delight.

With the help of his friend, the little yellow bird who taught him how to read, Rocket the puppy now sets out to write a story of his own.