Meet Mark Teague

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Author/illustrator Mark Teague gives us advice on writing and tells us about his process for writing and illustrating books.

Meet Melanie Watt

Author-illustrator Mélanie Watt teaches kids how she creates her famous characters, Chester the cat and Scaredy Squirrel.

Meet Chris Van Allsburg

The award-winning author and illustrator talks about the process of bringing an idea to life in words and pictures.

Black Beauty

The story is told by the horse himself, named Black Beauty—beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country.

If you love horses, this is a classic story for you.....

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The follow-up to "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" finds young wizard Harry Potter and his friends facing new challenges during their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as they try to discover a dark force that is terrorizing the school.

Matilda

Matilda is a gifted girl forced to put up with a crude parents and a mean principal.  But one day she discovers she has special powers....Read this fun adventure written by Ronald Dahl!

Fantastic Mr. Fox

After 12 years of marriage, Mr. Fox breaks a promise to his wife and raids the farms of their human neighbors, Boggis, Bunce and Bean. Giving in to his animal instincts endangers not only his marriage but also the lives of his family and their animal friends. When the farmers force all of the animals deep underground, Mr. Fox has to resort to his craftiness to rise above the opposition.