Follows Daniel's efforts to practice patience while hungrily waiting for his dinner to arrive at a restaurant.

"Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet...

"Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside - the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can't eat any of these things. Her body doesn't work like those of other people....

Es Nochebuena y Óscar, el unicornio, está hambriento. Se ha comido los adornos, el árbol y los calcetines. Pero, seguaramente, Óscar no es quien se ha zampado la comida mágica para renos que hace volar a los renos de Papá Noel. ¿¡O sí...!? -- "It's Christmas Eve and Oscar the Unicorn is hungry. He's eaten the Christmas tree, the stockings and is about to make a start on the presents. But at least he hasn't eaten the magic reindeer food that...

Goat is tired of eating grass. First she tries the dog's breakfast washed down with some of the cat's milk. As Goat becomes more adventurous in her eating, the family notices that things have gone missing-- including Goat herself, who begins to feel colorfully unwell.