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"Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can't wait to begin! But wait-how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream"--

Encouraged by his sidekicks, the glow-in-the-dark plankton, a self-doubting whale learns that anyone can be an artist and everyone has something unique to contribute.

An artist's drawing of a star begins the creation of an entire universe around him as each successive pictured object requests that he draw more.

A child paints with an artist friend who sees and paints only whales.

An artist, displeased with her drawing, tries to make it better but the figure, Viva, comes to life and proclaims that she is happy just as she is.--

Rapunzel has lived in a tower since she was a baby. So when she goes to a village with a thief named Flynn and her chameleon Pascal, she doesn't know what to expect. Then a painter offers her an art lesson, and she can't believe her luck. But when she paints Flynn first, Pascal gets mad and runs away. She sets out to find him, and before long she's in for another surprise. Will she be able to fix everything by the time the lanterns she's always dreamed...

Rebel Sabine takes on a cadre of stormtroopers and uses her artistic talent to tag a TIE fighter.

While drawing pictures of the animals she sees on her trip to Australia, a young girl named Ally meets Pauline, an aborigine woman and fellow artist, from whom Ally learns that art is not always created with just paper and paints, and that mistakes are actually happy accidents.

Hoping to surprise his grandfather on Father's Day, Eric tries both a bird sculpture and a pickle pizza and worries about the acceptability of both gifts.

Describes how a teacher named Miss Chew encouraged individuality, and accepted learning differences, and helped a young student with academic difficulties get extra time to take tests and permission to be in advanced art classes. Inspired by the author's memories of her art teacher.