Finally! something that worked! I tried logging out, going to another location and coming back, nothing, I could not get anything to work! After selling a book case and purchasing it again I was both able to purchase a book and get it in my adults inventory so that I could choose read to child! YAY!
Recently, when I played the Goths, repurchasing all of the bookcases did not work. I couldnt even move the books to the inventory because it claimed that the members of the household did not own them. I even tried to reset the bookcases, using testing cheats, and to repair the game. Neither of those worked. The fix I did find, was to simply purchase a new book. New books in the bookcase could be moved with the hand tool and either put in inventories or on surfaces. The other books could not. New books had the option to "read to...".
