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Four short stories about four young people in different circumstances and how their lives are changed by their encounters with books.

Fish and Snail live in books, and every day Snail waits for Fish to return from his explorations of other books to hear his stories. This time is different--this time Fish wants Snail to come with him, only Snail is too comfortable in his current book to leave. This could be the end of their friendship.

To see life out of the zoo, Sammy the seal explores the city, goes to school, and plays with the children but decides that there really is no place like home, in a story with material on the origins of books in the I Can Read series.

Now thirteen, Meggie "reads" herself into Inkworld, where she, her family, and the characters in the book face chaos and danger as the original creator of the world frantically tries to redirect the story.

"Little Mouse loves strawberries, but so does the big, hungry Bear. How will little Mouse stop the Bear from eating his freshly picked, red, ripe strawberry?"--back cover.

Given blank books by their mother, Seymour, Fiona, and Wilbur let their imaginations fly, then put their stories, poems, and pictures together in a single, shared book.

As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, asking for Bluejay's surrender or the children will be doomed to slavery in the silver mines.

When snow prevents Mr. Hughes from opening the library one day, book-loving Library Fish finds a way to entertain herself and her bookmobile friend.

Henry and his big dog Mudge attend their first family reunion.

Take a ride in a long submarine or fly away in a hot air balloon. Whatever you do, just be sure to bring your favorite book. Pasea por el mar en un largo submarino o viaja legos en un globo aerostatico. No importa lo que hagas, no olvides traer tu libro preferido.