books and reading

Determined to focus on work rather than books, as his father had, twelve-year-old Patrick Waters leaves Belfast as a steward on the Titanic, but the very wealthy Harry Widener arranges to tutor him, drawing Patrick into association with thieves seeking Harry's very rare edition of Francis Bacon's Essays.

Alfred so loves books that he spends much of his life collecting every one in his town, and when his collection is complete he sets out to read each tome, while the lives of the townspeople grow dull and dreary.

Milo battles a monster while attempting to tell his story in the classroom book nook.

Two new books are dismayed when they are shelved at a library where the books judge each other only by their covers.

Sam likes the library books he checked out with his new card so much, he is not ready to part with them on the due date.

When animals in a zoo cannot sleep, their zookeeper gives them books to read.

On his first visit to the library, Curious George finds it hard to sit still during story hour which leads to havoc when he starts selecting his own books.

Eddie is very excited when a real author comes to his school, because he has a very important question to ask her.

Mother Pig reads bedtime stories to her little pigs, including "The Pig Prince, " "The Ugly Pigling, " "Piggerella, " and "the Prince and the Porker.".