"A picture book celebration of the act of exploring--and sharing--a book"--

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

These seemingly disparate characters gradually realize their connections to each other just as they realize that something is not quite right about their world. And it seems as though the answers might lie with Hawthorne Abendsen, a mysterious and reclusive author whose bestselling novel describes a world in which the US won the War... The Man in the High Castle is Dick at his best, giving readers a harrowing vision of the world that almost was.

Elizabeth Brown loves to read more than anything else, but when her collection of books grows and grows, she must make a change in her life.

A child adamantly refuses to read a book, regardless of the increasingly outrageous circumstances that might occur.

Six weeks of shopping, taking tea with the most fashionable ladies and dancing with the most handsome gentlemen is what awaits young Catherine Morland when she makes her entree into the leisure society at Bath. But, oh, the thrill of an unexpected invitation from the mysterious Tilney family to stay at their home-a veritable abbey.

Sam likes the library books he checked out with his new card so much, he is not ready to part with them on the due date.

"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"--

When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book.

The New Yorker critic examines the books that reveal and record our world in a new essay collection.