Twelve-year-old Rob does not like to read and stuffs most of the books his parents give him into his closet with the rest of his junk, but when he finds a funny little creature behind the door that seems to be a cross between Willy Wonka and Frankenstein, he begins to see that reading can be an adventure.

After seeing a green-speckled reptile hatch from an egg one day after storytime, young Max tries to convince someone that there is a dragon in the library, growing ever larger as it eats books, but no one believes him.

"There's a unicorn in your book! But this unicorn doesn't seem very happy... Can you help get rid of the worry gremlins and cheer this unicorn up?"--Provided by publisher.

A girl who cannot succeed in any of the activities at camp eventually finds her place when she shares her love of books and reading with the others at the nightly campfire.

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.

"When Dory's best friend learns to read before she does, Dory retreats into her wild imagination and finds herself in the middle of one of the babyish books she is struggling to read where she encounters imaginary friends and enemies"--

A little girl named Alice opens on a book on a rainy day and travels around the world through its pages.

"Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from...