Harold and the Purple Crayon meets Tom and Jerry in this sweet and funny picture book about a boy and girl who must balance their creativity and figure out how to cooperate after their drawings come to life. When Sam starts drawing a super cool velociraptor, Eva decides to join in. But Sam isn’t too happy about the collaboration. Soon Eva and Sam are locked in an epic creative clash, bringing to life everything from superhero marmots to exploding confetti. But when their masterpieces turn to mayhem, will Sam stay stubbornly solo or will he realize that sometimes the best work comes from teamwork?

Sam does not want Eva to add to his drawing, but when the scene comes to life and gets out of control, she helps him escape.

Meet Eva. Her US-educated parents had a dream to raise their family in a spiritual and naturalist style in the mountains of the Andes. Eva and her brother laugh, love, play, and work very hard while encountering other souls in their beloved forest, growing ever mindful the presence of a larger world. A daring journey begins for Eva as events catalyze unexpected separation from her family and catapult her as an outsider into a modern US city. The contrast of her lively, whimsical yet spiritual approach to life and her new urban surroundings unfold a tapestry of modern social issues humorously and insightfully. Through fresh perspective, grace, determination, and a little bit of luck, she embraces the unknown courageously. She interrelates with friends and people in her social community, solving the puzzles of her family and her own identity. Ultimately, she discovers life, friendship, love, and the oddities and treasures of our modern culture.

centerIn this funny picture book, a toddler named Sam, who knows what he wants, quarrels with Doggie, who steals his tasty cookie.

In this funny picture book, a toddler named Sam, who knows what he wants, learns to be proud of his new potty.

Breaking onto the scene in 1982 with Diner, which was hailed by one critic as a masterpiece of observation, Academy Award-winner Barry Levinson has since become recognized as one of the preeminent writer/directors of our time. Diner was set in Levinson's native Baltimore, during the late 1950s of his youth, and is, as Pauline Kael wrote in the New Yorker, "that rare autobiographical movie made by someone who knows how to get the texture right."...With Tin Men Levinson returned to richly detailed middle class milieu of Baltimore and introduced another group of characters -- the "tin men" who make their living hard-selling aluminum siding to unsuspecting homeowners...In Avalon Levinson continues his cycle of Baltimore stories.