books and reading

Captain Barnacle Black Ear, baddest of the Buccaneer Bunnies, is ashamed of his book-loving son, Henry, until the day a great storm approaches.

A circular tale in which each new book character is reading about the next, beginning and ending with Charlie Cook.

This poem compares a book to a house, a treasure chest, a farm, and a tree full of leaves.

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.

An all-night read-a-thon at the Sleepy Hollow Elementary School turns into a treasure hunt when the kids read about hidden treasure in the school basement.

Elizabeth Brown loves to read more than anything else, but when her collection of books grows and grows, she must make a change in her life.

To teach his granddaughter the value of books, a grandfather leads a growing crowd in search of the tree where the bees keep all their honey.

Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.

A raccoon and his friends go to great lengths to make sure they will always have a library from which to borrow books.

At bedtime, a young boy who cannot find his favorite book imagines the various creatures that might have taken it from him.