Examines how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful, and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.

Mr. Lemoncello holds a contest for his young friends where they must race to bring interesting facts back to his library.

Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club, solely to have a place to read, and discovers that real life, although messy, can be as exciting as the stories in his favorite books.

Fiona Sweeney wants to do something that matters, and she chooses to make her mark in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya. By helping to start a traveling library, she hopes to bring the words of Homer, Hemingway, and Dr. Seuss to far-flung tiny communities where people live daily with drought, hunger, and disease. Her intentions are honorable, and her rules are firm: due to the limited number of donated books, if any one of them is not returned,

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The Cat in the Hat takes Young Cat in tow to show him the fun he can get out of reading.

A celebration of how readers bring books to life follows the experiences of a book that tires of an unchanging existence on the shelf and yearns for the excitement of sharing its story.

A little rabbit describes all the things there are to love about a special book which tells of magical places and creatures.

Every Tuesday Lola and her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat.

Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a little girl to imagine a story for each page.

Readers from everywhere pore over books, each with their own questions, ideas to explore, hopes for the future, and imaginations ready to spark, showing the many ways books can foster connection and empower children.