In a dark and eerie magic shop, Jeremy finds a multicolored ball containing a dragon--a tiny thing that speaks through mental telepathy. Soon, it will begin to grow, and grow, and grow.

Using a red marker, a young girl draws a door on her bedroom wall and through it enters another world where she experiences many adventures, including being captured by an evil emperor.

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

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.

The narrator turns a "nothing shape" into a cat, beaver, bunny, dog, turtle, and bear, but what the cat really wants is a horse.

"As an artist creatively incorporates her slipups into a drawing, readers see the ways in which 'mistakes' can provide inspiration and opportunity, and reveal that both the art and artist are works-in-progress"--

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

Ben loves to draw and does so in all of his classes, but his drawings of people are so good he is afraid to let his classmates see them, until the day he loses his notebook and his talent is revealed.

"A boy discovers that even if he does not draw, he can be an artist and express himself through coloring"--

Tom Gates fills his notebooks with sketches and comments about his family and friends, including seeing his sister Delia without her sunglasses, trying to get in shape for Sport's Day, and forming a band, the Dogzombies, with his friends for the school talent show.