Follow Your Art (Jeanie & Genie Series #3)

by Trish Granted, Manuela Lopez (Illustrator)

Overview

Jeanie and Willow’s world is turned on its head in the third book of the Jeanie and Genie series when a classmate makes a wish to bring art to life. Can Jeanie and Willow keep the art fair from running rampant at school?

When a classmate makes a wish to bring art to life...Willow grants the wish and suddenly, the school art fair is filled with talking sculptures, living dioramas—and one very sneaky pipe cleaner stick figure! Can Jeanie and Willow rein in the renegade art before the entire school learns Willow is a genie?

With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Jeanie & Genie chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534474710
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	01/05/2021
Series:	Jeanie & Genie Series , #3
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	597,393
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 7.20(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	660L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 9 Years

About the Author

Trish Granted is the author of more than forty books for children, as well as a children’s book editor who helps authors craft stories of their own. She lives with her husband, cat, and a mountain of books in Brooklyn, New York.

Manuela López is an artist, introvert, and tea drinker. She works as an illustrator of children’s books and freelance projects.

Read an Excerpt

Chapter 1: A Happy Accident

Editorial Reviews

02/01/2021

K-Gr 3—Jeanie Bell is a straitlaced girl who loves going to school, following the rules, and spending recess reading quietly under a tree, while talkative new student Willow Davis likes to wear sparkly outfits, and has a big secret. Despite their differences, the second graders bond over their shared sense of humor. Observant Jeanie notices that strange things happen when Willow is around, like the weather suddenly turning from rain to snow to sun. The story's culmination—ostensibly the reveal that Willow is a genie in training—is actually the leap of faith Willow takes when sharing her secret with Jeannie, who accepts her with open arms, sealing their relationship into best friends status. In Follow Your Art, the girls' class is exploring the arts; after a field trip to the art museum and working hard to create their own masterpieces, Jeanie and Willow get a chance to curate the class art show. Earnest budding artist Leo Chang offers Jeanie and Willow some creative insights about the project, but when he muses aloud that he wishes his art could come to life, Willow accidently grants it! The mix-up quickly becomes a crisis when the entire art show explodes into a chaotic reality. Willow's rendering of a ballerina starts pirouetting out of control, Jeanie's pointillist dog painting runs amok, and Leo's fluid motion horse mobile starts cantering around the school gym. The girls keep their cool and use a clever magical aid just in the nick of time to save the school from being overrun by the vitality of students' artistic visions. Jeanie and her family are depicted as Latinx, while Willow and her mother are depicted as white. The comprehensive illustrations on nearly every page will help readers starting off with chapter books gain confidence. Give to fans of Daisy Meadow's "Rainbow Magic" series. VERDICT Emerging readers who like some magic mixed into contemporary realistic friendship fiction will enjoy this series.—Tara Kehoe, Charlotte Mecklenburg Lib., Charlotte, NC

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