Binding: Hardcover; Publication year: 2024; Number of pages: 48; Author: Inga Moore; Language: Romanian.
When it comes to telling stories, no one does it better than Mr. Elk. But one evening, as he sits around the fire with his family, Mr. Elk can’t think of any new stories. “Let’s read them one instead,” suggests Mrs. Elk.
They would need a storybook for that, but they don’t have one. Perhaps their neighbors, the Bear family, have one? No, they don’t. Neither do the Boar, Fox or Beaver families. Mr. Elk is a little disappointed, but he doesn’t give up. The next day, he heads to town, where he has heard there is a big place full of books: a library.
Hooray! It looks like he’s solved the problem. Or has he? The borrowed books last him only a few days, and Mr. Elk discovers that he’s just as good at reading aloud as he is at telling stories. So good, in fact, that more and more neighbors and friends come with their whole families to listen, night after night.
It’s lovely, but soon Mr. Elk’s house is too small for all the forest animals who arrive with their little ones, eager to hear stories (and play under the bed, behind the wardrobe...). Mr. Elk has a new problem, but he comes up with a clever solution: a book bus—a bus that travels everywhere, filled with books people can borrow.
Problem solved? Almost. The only thing left is for the forest residents to learn to read, and Mr. Elk isn’t one to shy away from that challenge either. He teaches Mrs. Bear to read, and she teaches Mrs. Badger. Then Mr. Fox teaches Mr. Rabbit... No, not Mr. Fox—Mrs. Elk teaches Mr. Rabbit to read. And so it goes, from one to another, until all the forest residents can read, and the Library Bus is always full of readers.
