A girl retools The Little Red Hen into a building project that shows what initiative and making can do.

A mixed-up monster sorts his feelings one color at a time in a tactile introduction to emotional vocabulary.

A box of crayons stages a hilarious labor dispute, each color tired of being used the wrong way.

An inventor's big idea meets repeated failure until frustration becomes part of the making process.

This biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat connects Black creativity, art-making, and city energy from childhood on.

Even when adults disapprove, Iggy cannot stop building bold, structurally surprising things.

Rosie builds marvelous inventions in secret until a beloved aunt shows her that failure belongs inside engineering.

One ordinary evening turns surreal when frogs begin flying silently across town on their lily pads.

An innkeeper's daughter learns the high wire from a retired performer and finds the courage to cross it herself.

On a Harlem rooftop, a girl imagines herself flying over the city and claiming the world she deserves.