She turns a reluctant child into a bookworm.

BBC: Enid Blyton

The stories were written, so to speak, in front of a mirror, by a man hoping to drown the tiny, shivering thrills of the chronic bookworm with the low snarl of a more universal emotion, that of dread.

NEWYORKER: Fright Nights

The bookworm, however, is about to become a butterfly: LinkedIn, a B2B social network, is going public at what promises to be a huge valuation.

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For a reader the phrase that you should never judge a book by its cover daily is daily applicable to their life and every young bookworm is thrilled to wait in line to meet one of their biggest inspirations- their favorite author, signing books.

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