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* Dorothy Ann in ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' always carried a book she called her "research" that conveniently had information about the day's subject matter.
* Dorothy Ann in ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' always carried a book she called her "research" that conveniently had information about the day's subject matter.
* Subverted in '' The City of Dreaming Books'' by Walter Moers. The [[Big Bad]] gives the hero an old Grimoire and tells him that all the answers to his question are written on page 333. {{spoiler|the page only contains on sentence, over and over again: You have just been poisoned.}}
* Subverted in '' The City of Dreaming Books'' by Walter Moers. The [[Big Bad]] gives the hero an old Grimoire and tells him that all the answers to his question are written on page 333. {{spoiler|the page only contains on sentence, over and over again: You have just been poisoned.}}
** This is a recasting of one of the tales of the Arabian Nights, "[http://preview.tinyurl.com/25dgrhg The Story of Yunan and The Sage Duban]", one of the tales nested in the "Tale of the Fisherman and the Jinn". It also involves tricking someone into turning the pages in a book that has been poisoned.
** This is a recasting of one of the tales of the Arabian Nights, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140831150134/http://preview.tinyurl.com/25dgrhg The Story of Yunan and The Sage Duban]", one of the tales nested in the "Tale of the Fisherman and the Jinn". It also involves tricking someone into turning the pages in a book that has been poisoned.
* Susan Cooper's ''[[The Dark Is Rising]]'' has The Book of Gramarye which gives the Old Ones everything they ever wanted to know about how to use their powers.
* Susan Cooper's ''[[The Dark Is Rising]]'' has The Book of Gramarye which gives the Old Ones everything they ever wanted to know about how to use their powers.
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'':
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'':
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