Suggests a method of reading that begins with planting oneself beneath a tree and leads to a book party one hopes will never end.

"Thirteen-year-old Juan's summer if off to a terrible start. First, his parents separate. Then, almost as bad, Juan is sent away to his strange Uncle Tito's house for the entire break! Who wants to live with an oddball recluse who has zigzag eyebrows, drinks fifteen cups of smokey tea a day, and lives inside a huge, mysterious library? As Juan adjusts to his new life among teetering, dusty shelves, he notices something odd: the books move on their...

A young reader introduces a boy to the many imaginative worlds that books bring to life.

On "Read to a Pet Day" at the library, Biscuit plays with story time puppets, visits with friends, and listens to recorded books before a librarian helps him discover his favorite acivity of all.

A tribute to the joy that books and reading bring to every child.

"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--

Henley hates to read, so his homework assignment to bring in his favorite book seems an impossible challenge--until his mother shows him a box of books he made himself when he was younger.

The animals appearing in a book, excited to be "saved," beg the reader not to close them in again.

The reader is put in charge of building a fantastical library where everything is possible including a waterslide, zip line, really large ladders, and of course, a full-service sundae bar.

A boy shows a book he has made about all of the things he can do for himself, from making his own lunch to fixing his own toys.