Little Plane learns to write by practicing his skywriting.

Follow a pencil's adventures as it travels outside the classroom and writes its own story.

When Phoebe's class begins practicing writing their names, her teacher tells her to sound it out, but Phoebe struggles with the correct spelling.

Jasmine's grandfather teaches her Chinese calligraphy by drawing and making up stories together. Includes information about Chinese characters and a glossary of words in the story.

Cuando el hermano mayor de Juan, Diego, tiene la tarea de escribir una historia para la escuela, Juan decide que lo ilustran. When Juan's big brother, Diego, gets the assignment to write a story for school, Juan decides he will illustrate it.

Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps telling her to pay attention, and the other kids tease her...until she finds a friend who also daydreams and her teacher decides to work a daydreaming-writing session into every school day. With a notebook "thick with daydreams," Gabby grows more confident about...

"Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she struggles to belong. But most of the time that's okay, because she enjoys helping her parents care for the many injured animals at their veterinary clinic. Then Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, moves to town, and aspiring writer Oriol finds herself opening up. As she begins to create a world of words for herself, Oriol learns...

"Timothy Shmoe isn’t a bad kid, but sometimes he makes honest mistakes. Other times, he knows exactly what he’s doing. But time and again, he finds himself in disasters of his own creation, leaving a trail of broken heirlooms, torn tutus, missing marbles—and innocent bystanders (including his cat). Structured as a series of apology letters, commissioned by Dad and written in Timothy’s direct—and not-quite sorry—voice, The Sorry Life of...