When Miss Aker, a special guest at Ella Mentry School, shows A.J. and his friends how to create cool things out of all kinds of materials, they accidentally build a robot smart enough to take over the world!

Offering extra help to a newcomer in Miss Bird's dance class, Mia and Ruby are frustrated by Sara's determination to put her own spin on every dance move, a preference that introduces the girls to new ideas about creativity and individuality.

A child who likes to draw and write stories imagines what would happen if there were no pencils, paper, or other tools for being creative.

Melia loves to create inventions in her backyard, but when she meets her new neighbor, Jo, Jo starts using Melia's inventions to do things Melia never intended, and she even puts licorice on Melia's robot.

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.

Struggling in a class where her teacher puts stars on the board for good spelling, neatness, and correct answers, creative little Rose worries that she will never earn merits until she makes an oversized card that reflects her artistic talents.

Love Monster is determined to give his best friend, a lovely girl monster, the perfect present on Gift Day, so when he discovers he cannot afford to buy anything special enough, he has an idea to make something, instead.

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.

Rafael has looked forward to the Going Places contest and builds his go-cart from a kit in record time, but his neighbor, Maya, has a much more interesting and creative idea for her entry and Rafael decides to help.

This is the story of a persistent problem and the child who isn't so sure what to make of it. The longer the problem is avoided, the bigger it seems to get. But when the child finally musters up the courage to face it, the problem turns out to be something quite different than it appeared. What Do You Do With a Problem? is a story for anyone, at any age, who has ever had a problem that they wished would go away. It's a story to inspire you to look...