books and reading

Lola loves to hear Daddy read a new library book each night, an activity that spurs her imagination and results in inventive play the next day.

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

A dramatization for six readers of the story of a gingerbread man who escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a series of nursery rhyme characters who hope to eat him until meeting up with a clever fox.

Albert's home is very loud--and all he wants to do is read! He escapes outside for some peace, and thinks he's found it at last. But, one by one, his friends boisterously infiltrate his space until Albert just can't take it anymore...and snaps! How will his friends react?.

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

The Super Readers help Red Riding Hood work out a problem with her friends who do not want to help her pick apples by reading "The Little Red Hen.".

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.

Rob Burnside is visited by an especially strange closet creature, reminiscent of a cross between the Cat in the Hat and Gollum.

Every Tuesday Lola and her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat.

When twelve-year-old Steve Brixton, a fan of Bailey Brothers detective novels, is mistaken for a real detective, he must elude librarians, police, and the mysterious Mr. E as he seeks a missing quilt containing coded information.