Books About Books

When Thomas finds a book while on vacation, it takes him on grand adventures on the beach, in the Alps, and in outer space.

Once popular, an increasingly shabby library book grows lonely until a young girl rediscovers it, but when it becomes lost again both the book and the girl wonder if they will have a happy ending.

"A wary and unadventurous book uses its different parts, such as the jacket, gutters, and endpapers, to try and get a sense of what kind of story might be on its pages. By navigating the book's contents together, the reader and the book become friends and the book becomes braver" -- Provided by publisher.

"In this book with no pictures, the reader has to say every silly word, no matter what"--

When Gerald the elephant and Piggie realize that they are in a book, they decide to have some fun with the reader.

Suggests a method of reading that begins with planting oneself beneath a tree and leads to a book party one hopes will never end.

A young girl shares her recipe for baking the perfect book, from breaking ideas into a cup to adding periods and capital letters, with a pinch of good, a dash of bad, and carefully cut out characters mixed in.