A play about fiction's power to both divide and unite, from Pulitzer finalist Adam Rapp In small-town America, a young adult novel about teen pregnancy is banned by the local school board, igniting a fierce and violent debate over abortion, religious beliefs, and modern feminism. Its directionless New York City author arrives in town to defend the book and finds that it has inspired a group of local teens to rebel in strange and unexpected ways....

"Amelia is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband on the night she gave birth to her son. When a disturbing storybook called Mister Babadook turns up at her house, she is forced to battle with her son's deep-seated fears of the world around him, and together they must conquer it even as the monster disrupts reality and her tentative hold on sanity." --

In an effort to give their younger brother, Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a small measure of freedom. But she also has very specific ideas...

A young man finds out that his childhood fantasyland may really exist. Searching for insight into his father's life and the magical place he wrote about in the beloved children's book, Neverwas, psychiatrist Zach Riley takes a job at the institution where his father lived on and off. Once there, Zach meets Gabriel, a patient whose alternate reality is startlingly close to the world his father created.

"A jaded high school English teacher is forced to re-evaluate his life when his novel is passed over for one of his student's." --

One of the most extraordinary events of the late 19th century in Paris was the opening on December 11, 1896, at the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre of Alfred Jarry's play 'Ubu Roi'. The audience was scandalized by this revolutionary satire. Barbara Wright's witty translation of this riotous work is accompanied with drawings by Franciszka Themerson.

Seventeen book-themed episodes from fourteen PBS kids series.

"Light Yagami is a genius high school student who is about to learn about life through a book of death. When a bored shinigami (God of Death) named Ryuk drops a black notepad called a Death Note, Light receives power over life and death with the stroke of a pen. Determined to use this dark gift for the best, Light sets out to rid the world of evil...namely the people he believes to be evil." --