The Jellybeans and the Big Art Adventure

By Laura Numeroff, Nate Evans and Lynn Munsinger

The Jellybeans are ready for an art adventure when Bitsy enlists the other girls to help her paint a mural at their favorite place: the candy shop! After a fun trip to the museum to learn about art, the four Jellybeans use their different strengths and talents to work together to create a colorful success. This fourth book in the successful, New York Times bestselling series once again shows, whether readers are girly girls, bookworms, artists, or tomboys, that there is a Jellybean for everyone!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: May 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781613123027

Laura Numeroff

Laura Numeroff is the New York Times bestselling author of many books for young readers in addition to the If You Give…series, including The Chicken Sisters and Laura Numeroff’s 10-Step Guide to Living with Your Monster. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and is involved with several children’s charities, including First Book. You can visit her online at www.lauranumeroff.com.

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Reviews for The Jellybeans and the Big Art Adventure

[khendr4 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

In my opinion, I think this book was a great story for young readers. One of the things I really liked was that it touched on diversity. The friends compared themselves to jellybeans because they are just as diverse. Each of the girls in the group of friends have different interests and are represented by different animals. The story reads, "the girls were all different but got along great." I thought this was a great lesson for young readers. Another thing I liked about this book was that it had a strong lesson of embracing your talents. None of the friends could paint besides Bitsy and they ended up all working together on a mural which came out great. The text and illustrations also went well together since the pages had white space along with a detailed illustration that matched the text. This allowed for the text to be featured in the white space. Since this book had more words than a simple picture book, it is important to draw the eye to the text so it can be read clearly. They story also had a simple plot, bug did a great job in getting all of the morals and lessons across that I mentioned in the beginning of my review. The big idea of the story was to embrace each others differences and come together to complete a goal.

[katiebrennan-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

 In my opinion, this was a good book. I really liked the illustrations because they were appropriate to the mood of the story. The story had a happy and light mood and the illustrations were bright and colorful to match. I also liked the conflict of the story. Bitsy loves to paint, but when she finds out the whole town will see her painting, she becomes shy and nervous because she is afraid that they won't like what she has made. The conflict in this book is internal for Bitsy, and by the end, she becomes confident. The main idea of this story is to be confident in your abilities because everyone has something to contribute to the world.