What do these children do without storybooks?

“What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked.
And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them."
I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer, Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus: And Other Stories