Books like Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein
By Linda Bailey
For the kid who's already scribbling their own stories in notebooks, this is proof that a wild imagination and a restless life can turn into something the whole world remembers. Atmospheric, moody, and quietly thrilling — like a storm rolling in.
A gadget-loving girl dreams of fixing rockets instead of going to the royal ball, but when her fairy godrobot sends her anyway and the prince's ship breaks down mid-party, her wrench skills save the day.
A poor boy who longs to paint is given a magic paintbrush that brings to life whatever he creates, until a greedy emperor sets out to capture him and claim its power for himself.
A young painter defies a male-dominated art world by pouring paint straight onto canvas and pushing it with mops and squeegees, inventing a whole new way to make pictures.
A young ballet student listens to music from Swan Lake in her dance class and is magically transported into the story, where she meets Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer.
Seven brothers, each with one extraordinary ability, face execution under a cruel emperor — and must rely on their differences to survive together.
A brave boy ignores his grandfather's warnings about the dangers lurking beyond the garden gate and sets out to face a wolf, determined to catch it himself.
A young boy sets off on a moonlit walk armed with only an oversize purple crayon, drawing his own path through woods, seas, and dragons before finding his way safely back to bed.
A proper young boy named Vasya Kandinsky hears colors sing and sees sounds dance when he opens his paint box — but will he dare to paint music instead of pretty houses and flowers?
In 1783 France, a wildly ambitious crowd readies the very first hot-air balloon flight — except the passengers turn out to be a duck, a rooster, and a sheep, not people.
After a dragon smashes her castle, burns all her clothes, and kidnaps her fiancé Prince Ronald, a quick-thinking princess sets off wearing only a paper bag to outwit the dragon and win him back.
A Victorian artist named Waterhouse Hawkins sets out to show the world what dinosaurs looked like by building the first life-size dinosaur models, first in England, then in New York City.
A young witch's child faces the Blue Witch, who threatens to turn her into a turtle unless she comes along — but Dorrie fights back with reducing powder and shrinks the villain down to size.
