Maybe Something Beautiful : How Art Transformed a Neighborhood

from nbmars

This book tells the story of Mira, a little girl who lived “in the heart of a gray city,” but who loved to draw and fill her room with color. She decided to pass her pictures around to share the joy she got from brightly colored art. One day she encountered an artist and he helped her paint brigh...

from Dipodomy

A wonderful book on the transformative power of art within a community. This book shows how anyone can make the world more beautiful and encourages kids to share their skills and vision with the world. The illustrations go with the text perfectly, starting in drab brown, grey and blacks with limi...

from ms_rowse

First picture book I read to my homeroom for 2019. I'd not read it prior--just picked it up at the Scholastic warehouse sale in December because I thought the illustrations were charming. The story was charming as well, and when I finished, my students said they very much enjoyed it. Had no idea ...

from AbigailAdams26

A young girl named Mira, who takes pleasure in creating beautiful, vibrantly colorful works of art, and giving them to her neighbors, tapes one of her paintings on a neighborhood wall one day, and the results are magical. A muralist appears the next day, and using her painting as a starting point...

from jherring

Love the community and art that permeate this whole book. Like even more how that is based on a true story of the transformation of a neighborhood.