"Mira lives in a gray and hopeless urban community until a muralist arrives and, along with his paints and brushes, brings color, joy, and togetherness to Mira and her neighbors"--

When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.

Sophie's is hurt when the other children laugh at her painting of her favorite tree--but when she explains her painting everybody understands what she was trying to do.

A big brown bear turns blue while painting when a little bear playing with her baseball bat accidentally knocks him off his ladder.

Presents a story about confidence. "Mr. Fish has a fun idea! He is going to make a painting for his friends at school, and he does not need any help. He can do this on his own! But when his plan doesn't work, he may end up needing his friends after all." --

Paddington enters a painting contest after Mr. Gruber shows him how fun it can be.

Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues. Includes biographical information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s.

The story of a rabbit's exhausting efforts to paint a picture presents the letters of the alphabet.

Claudia loves butterflies. Blue ones. Yellow ones. Purple ones with dots. And since she can't take them home, she paints them in all their beautiful colors. But when winter comes, there are no more butterflies to paint...until she finds a little moth. Suddenly, Claudia sees winter in a whole new light.

Lance goes trick-or-treating with such a scary face that he is able to help himself to all his neighbors' candy. Lance loves dressing up for Halloween. This year, instead of wearing a store-bought mask, he paints his face very, very scary. When Lance goes trick-or-treating, his scary face spooks his neighbors so much that they fall over-leaving him all their candy!