While Maple has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder, she hides the fact that she cannot read, but as she repeats the fifth grade Maple begins to recognize her own strengths and learns to love herself--and her brain--just the way it is.

Kari loves to have her father read to her, until she discovers that he cannot read and is making the stories up.

The three little dragons have agreed to take care of the old wizard's cats while he is away, but their inability to read his instructions causes problems until their friend, the Good Knight, saves the 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.

Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.

In this version of Sleeping Beauty, told in verse, the Princess is threatened with a curse which will start with a paper cut; devastated that all her books have been taken away, she sets out with her dog, Prince, to find the fairy who cast the curse and make her reverse it.