When Miss Greer asks each child in the class to write a story, second-grader Aaron, who loves to draw but struggles with reading, creates a story using pictures.

Ramon loses confidence in his ability to draw, but his sister gives him a new perspective on things.

Tapir has a new notebook and pencils but, unlike his friends, can think of nothing to write and is ready to give up when he finds a better way to communicate--through drawing.

An artist celebrates the many things he can do with a simple pen, and encourages the reader to do the same.

When her teacher assigns a report about animals and all the popular animals get snatched up, Ellie McDoodle is stumped for a topic. Then a neighbor asks Ellie to pet-sit her African gray parrot and it seems her problem is solved. But when the parrot flies the coop-literally-Ellie has an even bigger problem. With help from a librarian, a zookeeper, and Ellie's own pet-obsessed family, the bird comes home-but will Ellie finish her report on time?

When his father tells him not to leave the lion he is drawing on the beach, a little boy starts making a very, very long tail--and a trail to follow back.

"Sixth grader Edmund Xavier Lonnrot, codename "Eddie Red," has a photographic memory and talent for drawing anything he sees. When the NYPD is stumped by a mastermind art thief, Eddie becomes their secret weapon to solve the case"--

Amelia Bedelia suggests that her Mom, who is feeling blue, go on a play date while Amelia Bedelia is doing the same, and then enlists her friends to help make chalk drawings on the house, sidewalk, and more to brighten Mom's day with her favorite things.

"When Henrietta's mother gives her a box of colored pencils, she sets out to draw a terrifying and fantastic adventure"--

"Entre dos montanas, cerca de un arroyo, en medio de la nada, se encuentra una escuela sin patio de juegos, gimnasio, biblioteca, ni computadoras. Como dice la nina que nos cuenta esta historia: "Nuestra escuela no tiene casi nada. Un pizarron, unas sillas". Pero en esta escuela hay algo que nadie mas tiene: una maestra como ninguna otra en el mundo. "Ahi esta siempre, en la puerta de la escuela esperandonos en la manana", dice la nina. El dia en...