books and reading

While Catfish Kate and her friends are making sweet swamp music, Skink and his Skunktail boys are trying to read and they demand that the girls be quiet, but Kate finds a clever compromise.

Explains how to recognize a haunted book, and what to do when one finds one.

Fourth-grader, Katie, wishes on a shooting star that she be anyone but herself, but when she turns into her favorite author, Nellie Farrow, things get a little out of control.

A mouse living in an antiquarian bookstore learns the true power of words when he literally falls into a medieval tale and helps defeat the dragon Censor.

A young chimp declares his love for all kinds of books, from funny books and scary books to song books and strange books.

A group of kids are excited to spend a fun night at a lock-in at Mr. Lemoncello's newly opened library. However, the event is quite literal--now they will have to band together to find a way out before it is too late.

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.

Collection of four stories in which the lives of four young people in different circumstances are changed by their encounters with books.

Walter, namesake of Sir Walter Scott and a rat that can read, lives in the home of Miss Amanda Pomeroy, a celebrated writer of children's books.

A step-by-step guide to the art of booktalking for librarians, teachers, and counselors.