Happy National Book Lovers Day! Would you consider yourself a regular customer at the local bookstore? Is the picture window in your wallet being used to display a library card, while your driver's license stays tucked away in a pocket of lesser importance? When picturing your dream home, do you envision a room with wall-to-wall bookshelves, similar to the castle library revealed to Belle in Beauty and the Beast (the real reason Beast got the girl, as every book lover knows)?

If you answered "yes" to any of the above, today's blog post is for YOU!

Books are, as Stephen King once described, "a uniquely portable magic." Like a portal to another world, a book's enchantment lies in its ability to defy the laws of time and reason, transporting us somewhere we've never been, sometimes to places we could never go otherwise.

Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than

With the simple turn of a page, comes a new adventure "... 

Freshly Squeezed by Ed Stein

And like that - we are lost, and happy to be so.

Freshly Squeezed by Ed Stein

For there is no place more exciting to immerse yourself than in between the pages of a book:

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Happy adventuring, book lovers! Check out some amazing offerings from our sister company Andrews McMeel Publishing!