Book lover Elizabeth Brown, whose constant reading keeps her from playing with dolls or doing just about anything else, finds her house so full of books that she has to start her own public library

A young bear who is fascinated by the mysterious marks he sees on paper finds a friend when a kind woman reads to him.

Each short, rhymed story invites two readers to read their own parts, and then read the passage in the central column together.

Left in the care of his older sister, a boy begs her to read his favorite book but she is too absorbed in her own reading even to notice when a tiger comes to life in the steam from his soup.

Kelsey is the best reader in her third grade class, and she is determined to lead her class to victory in the alll-school reading contest.

Jake, a reluctant reader, becomes a book lover when the new librarian finds Jake a book about woodworking.

At the public library in her new town, Patricia meets Mrs. Creavy, an encouraging librarian who introduces Patricia to the books of John James Audubon and helps her become the first member of the Audubon bird club of Freemont Elementary.

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

What happens when the book gets it wrong? Max is not a cat-- Max is a dog! But much to his dismay, this book keeps instructing readers to "see the cat." How can Max get through to the book that he is a dog? In a trio of stories for beginning readers, author David LaRochelle introduces the excitable Max, who lets the book know in irresistibly emphatic dialogue that the text is not to his liking. Illustrator Mike Wohnoutka hilariously depicts the pup's...

When the new teacher, Miss Smith, reads to her class, Zack and his classmates are amazed to find that the storybook characters come to life.