Arcadia Public Library

This Newbery Honor classic, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist, is a beautifully written tribute to the power of kindness, acceptance, and standing up for what's right.

Wanda Petronski is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. She claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't. When Wanda is pulled out of school one day, the class feels terrible, and classmate

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An alien visits a house on Earth, where he meets a young boy and shares drawings with him.

Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg.

Trying to avoid bedtime, Lucy uses her imagination and some crayons to draw a monster to play with.

A young girl's chalk drawings bring her neighbors some relief on a hot summer day.

A young boy who spends most of his time alone in his bedroom makes new friends after the monster in his drawing becomes a monstrous nuisance.

Louie the pig loves to draw but it gets him thrown out of every school he attends, so he goes to live with his aunt and uncle who help him realize he has a wonderful talent.

A rhyming tribute to a budding young artist.

After the bear he has drawn on the blackboard comes to life, Anthony does not want to share him with Gloria and Stewart.

Kat, who loves to make maps of all sorts of places and things, gives a special map to Jack.