"Crafting projects that provide literacy and curriculum ideas to enrich the classroom Make It! Write It! Read It! develops art and literacy skills through the craft of bookmaking, inspiring elementary-aged children to read, write, and tell stories with their creations. Creative, fun, field-tested projects include 17 different blank book designs such as accordion fold, coffee filter, hanging tassel, and paper bag books. These designs are then applied...

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service. Cuando el padre de Meggie saluda a un extraño visitante que aparece en su casa, la niña siente que aquella persona emana un peligro. Entonces huyen a la casa de tía Elinor, propietaria de una fascinante biblioteca. Meggie descubre que los...