A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.

Two friends, Redd and Bloo argue over the possession of one special book with a green cover, hard cover, a nice spine, and pages turn from right to left--but unite when Bookworm walks off with it.

At bedtime, Cedric the dragon wants his mother to read his favorite book again, and again, and again.

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

Duck finds a book and is surprised to discover that there are books with words and no pictures--and that even without pictures a book can interest and excite you.

A monster tries to chomp any reader who wants to go past the first page of the book in order to keep his cakes safe.

Pages of decreasing, then increasing, size open to reveal different animals, each opening a book of a different color and reading about the next.

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

When the children go back to school, the animals on the farm are bored, so they go into the library in town trying to find something to do.

A literate fox attempts to teach a trio of overzealous lemmings to read in order to save them from their habit of jumping off cliffs.