History Main / PortalBook

->''"This book is made to order, but it isn't to be read;''
->''When they open up this book, they're sucked inside instead!"''

[[folder:Film]]

* DavidWeisner's Caldecott award-winning picture book version of ''Literature/ThreeLittlePigs'' plays with this as, partway through the story, the pigs realize they can leave their book and visit characters in other stories, resulting in some impressive {{Art Shift}}s.

[[folder:Music]]

* In ''ComicBook/OzCaliber'', Peter, Kevin and Mary (and their dog Max) are sucked into the Literature/LandOfOz by a strange book the find in an old trunk Kevin bought for $50.

* ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' - One of his gadgets are a pair of shoes that enables the user to go into the world of fiction.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

%%* ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheSecretRings''
%%** ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight''

* This trope is the main focus of ''WesternAnimation/ThePagemaster''.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresFromTheBookOfVirtues''.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy''.

* Done in the ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' episode "Charmed Noir," where Paige and Kyle get trapped in a book written by two of the Magic School's students.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' called "Shelf Life," which includes the interesting complication that altering anything in non-fiction books will alter the history or physics of the real world.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E6PowerPonies Power Ponies]]" has Spike and the Main Six learn the hard way that this kind of book is apparently a freely available specialized comic book retail item when they are sucked into it and have to play out its roleplaying game scenario in order to leave.

* In the ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' episode "Magical Book", Motu finds a magic book in Dr. Jhatka's laboratory and gets himself as well as Patlu, Dr. Jhatka, Ghasitaram, and Inspector Chingum sucked into the book's world, where sentient cars and trucks populate Furfuri Nagar instead of humans.

* ''[[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Cardcaptor Sakura]]'': In one episode of the Sakura Card arc, Eriol traps Sakura inside the Alice in Wonderland book.

[[caption-width-right:180:Take a look, you're in a book.]]

--> This is the story of a girl who gathered the seven seishi of Suzaku, and acquired the power to make every wish come true. The story itself is an incantation. Whoever finishes the book shall recieve this power. As soon as the page is turned, the story will become truth and begin...

Chances are 10 to 1 that there will be AnAesop [[ReadingIsCoolAesop about the value of reading]]. Nobody is more likely to fall into a Portal Book than a video game or TV junkie who thinks books are boring. A {{Bookworm}}'s best hope of getting to experience this trope is if the Aesop is "BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor," and he must learn to stop withdrawing into the fantasy world of his books and "live in the real world." (Of course, ''either'' lesson runs the risk of being a SpaceWhaleAesop, given that books in the real world don't work like this.)[[note]]Unless the reader has an addictive personality- that's when things can get [[GoneHorriblyRight messy.]][[/note]]

* ''Anime/TamagotchiHappiestStoryInTheUniverse'' has Mametchi and his friends travelling into books for fun. Then, Kikitchi travels into a book called "The World's Happiest Story", where his actions come close to affecting the real world; Mametchi and the others go in to get him out and save Tamagotchi Planet [[SaveBothWorlds as well as the world in "The World's Happiest Story"]].

[[folder:Asian Animation]]
* In Season 8 of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', the heroes travel into a book titled "A History of Magic" to retrieve Haha Xiao's staffs and wake up the Global Leader.
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* Done in the ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' episode "Charmed Noir," where Paige and Kyle get trapped in a book written by two of the Magic School's students.

* The premise of the [[ComicBook/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheComic comic book adaptation]] of ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000]]'' involves Jonah and the Bots being sent into old comic books by the Mads, allowing them to riff from within the pages and interact with its characters.