Mary Clare reads a story to her animal friends.

Lola loves to hear Daddy read a new library book each night, an activity that spurs her imagination and results in inventive play the next day.

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

"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"--

On a gray, rainy day, everything seems particularly frightening and bad to Louise until she enters a library and finds books that help her to know and imagine the beauty and wonder that have been there all along.

When various forest animals discover a mysterious object in the woods, they each use it for a different purpose, until a boy reads stories aloud from it, much to the animals' delight.

"Snappsy's ordinary day is interrupted by a meddling narrator"--

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.

"Rocket writes a story about a new friend, the owl"--

Morris Lessmore loves words, stories and books, and after a tornado carries him to another land, dreary and colorless, he finds a single book in color that leads him to an amazing library where, he learns, the books need him as much as he needs them.