books and reading

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Provides a critical introduction to children's literature in Canada.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Stink and his friends try to earn money to buy the latest book in the Nightmare on Zombie Street series and go to the book release party.

Ellen and Bear, two book-loving friends, hatch a plan to get Bear a book of his own, but through their many disguises and foiled attempts, the two discover the perfect book for Bear is closer to home than they thought.

"Explores how, when, and why books became so iconic. It's not just the content within a book that compels; it's the physical material itself, what [the author] calls 'bookhood': the smell, the feel of the pages, the margins to scribble in, the illustrations on the jacket, its solid heft. Every book is designed to influence our reading experience--to enchant, enrage, delight, and disturb us--and our longstanding love affair with books in turn has had direct, momentous consequences across time"--Provided by publisher.

The woodland animals of Burrow Down are ready for a bedtime story, but where are the books?.

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

"Come with Opal Owl and Stew Rabbit as they learn how books are organized by fiction and nonfiction, how to use call numbers and the Dewey Decimal System, and how to search using a library catalog"--Amazon.