A young boy named Richard Tyler is obsessed with statistics about accidents, making him afraid to take risks. He's too scared to ride his bike or climb into his treehouse. During a storm, he seeks shelter in a nearby library, where he gets knocked unconscious while exploring. When he wakes up, he's trapped in a journey through fictional story-like events that make it hard for him to find his way out of the library.

The Pagemaster
A young boy finds himself unexpectedly transformed into a living illustration by the mystical Pagemaster while seeking shelter from a storm in a library, where he was previously fixated on accident statistics.