books and reading

Max learns how valuable books are.

Jerry the mouse eats his way through the book, despite Tom's efforts to convince him and the readers that this book is not made of cheese.

Presents short retellings of familiar fairy tales, each told in two voices designed especially for young children and adults to read together.

Adelaide explains to her teacher why bears make the best reading buddies.

Seventh-grader Timothy July and his new friend Abigail try to break a curse that is causing them and others to be tormented by their greatest fears brought to life.

Neither Cleo nor Evan like the new school librarian, Ms. Crowley, but they are very curious about where she disappears to at the back of the library, so one day they follow her--and find a secret door, a magical library full of locked books, and a letter from the previous librarian telling them that she is trapped somewhere between the covers of one of the enchanted books, and they must travel through the stories in order to save her.

Poppleton the pig makes a friend, reads a library book about adventure, and helps a sick friend get better.

Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.

"When Delilah is united with Oliver, a prince literally taken from the pages of a fairytale, the line between what is on the page and what is possible is blurred, and all must be resolved for the two to live happily ever after"--Provided by publisher.

Dahlia Kristoff, the Wind Witch, has been banished, and the Walker children are attending a prep school, but they find themselves unhappy and wishing for things to go back to how they used to be. Meanwhile, Denver Kristoff is searching for his daughter Dahlia, and the Walker children will again be put in danger as they go on a mysterious journey through Kristoff's books.