Orem Library

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

A wolf learns to read in order to impress a group of farmyard animals he has met.

Aunt Chip saves the town of Triple Creek, where everyone has forgotten how to read because of the invasion of television.

Sweetness, one of eight orphans living with a man who is an unconventional housekeeper, learns to read and writes an important letter to improve their situation.

Harry sits on the porch with Mr. Joe Baker, an African American man who is one hundred years old but can still dance and play the drums, waiting for the school bus that will take them both to the class where they are learning to read.

JoJo's first night in her own room is interrupted by a lion, then a bear, then a tiger and, while the first two obey her keep out sign, the tiger cannot.

When fifteen-year-old Gatty, an illiterate field-girl who sings beautifully, is selected for a pilgrimage, she travels from her home on an English estate to London, Venice, and eventually Jerusalem, and experiences great changes in her circumstances and in herself.

A scarecrow stood in the garden. Tall, proud, and smiling. Every day a girl brought her favorite books to the garden and she read to him. He heard tales of courage and of hope. And when she said, "The End," the scarecrow always felt a little bit taller and braver. Year after year, she came and she read to him. Until one spring, two different hands picked him up from the garden shed and placed him in the garden. He waited, but she didn't come to read...

Isolated on her mountain, Amber meets and befriends a girl from the city who gives her the determination to learn to read and write.