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Live-action and animation blend together in this educational fantasy about a family of lions running a library filled with adventurous and musical books.

The library's family of lions demonstrate their wonderful facility for bringing books to life by taking folklore figure Pecos Bill out of the pages of a book to join them in the library.

A tale from Africa illustrates for the cubs the value of friendship and of seeing things from the other person's point of view.

The ram in the pepper patch escapes from his book to run wild in the library, wreaking havoc.

The cubs read the tale of the Three Little Pigs.

Father Theo reads a story to the cubs about a little boy who fears that his classmate Earl is way out of his league.

For her birthday, Leona gets from Lionel the story of the Gingerbread Man, but the cookie's demise leaves her so sad that she is unable to enjoy her birthday party. Cleo saves the day by leading the family and the library's patrons in a song about how saying goodbye is sad but eventually necessary.

The tale of a king and his winged pet teaches the cubs about friendship and trust. It's also an occasion for Leona to understand that stories don't always end happily.

The cubs learn about the music of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker through a tuneful poem.

Hearing a newspaper story written in classic sports hyperbole about how the Giants clobbered the Cubs, lion cub Lionel is in distress until the players emerge from the story to explain that the Cubs often clobber the Giants in return.

Classical mythological figure Pygmalion emerges from a book to seek the lion family's aid in bringing his beloved statue to life.

Lionel's emulation of his latest hero, Houdini, has little sister Leona worried that her brother will disappear permanently.

The story of the day is an update of the classic tale of the mouse, let go by a lion, who, to the lion's surprise, is able to keep her promise to the lion to be helpful to him someday in return.

Lionel and Leona hear the story of Pandora and her box but fail to heed its warning: they find a similar box, open it, and unleash a rash of hiccups among the library's patrons.

Leona is read a story about a rather unkingly king who wanted to be carried about so he wouldn't get his feet dirty. Leona then decides she'd like to be carried piggyback, too, and dad Theo tries to oblige.

The cubs listen to the classic tale of how a couple, granted three wishes, spent them as sausage, sausage attached to the wisher's nose, sausage gone from the wisher's nose.

Leona, skeptical of Lionel's claim that there are fish-eating eagles, asks Click to disguise her as a fish and drop her into a book about eagles.

The classic tale that warns against calling for help when it's not needed is illustrated with much humor and music.