Lola loves to hear Daddy read a new library book each night, an activity that spurs her imagination and results in inventive play the next day.

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 twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.