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Here are 24 of the 142 entries, chosen to show every age and every kind of art in the show. Open any piece to read what its artist wants you to notice.

  • Oil pastel drawing on black paper of a night garden with sunflowers, tomatoes, purple flowers and a small grandma.

    Drawings & Paintings

    Crayon, marker, oil pastel and watercolor.

  • Purple clay octopus with worried eyebrows wearing socks on its arms.

    Clay Animals

    A knight frog, a worried octopus and a chicken named Pancake.

  • Paper plate collage of paper fish in torn blue tissue paper with glitter glue.

    Collages

    Paper, leaves, magazines, foil and a lot of glitter.

  • Crayon comic of two kids at a lemonade stand and a bee in a top hat drinking their lemonade.

    Comics

    A setup, a problem and one big BOOM.

All 24 pieces

  • Tempera painting of a smiling fox striped red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, leaping over a blue puddle on a strip of green grass, with a yellow sun in the corner.

    Rainbow Fox

    Mila, age 6 · 2026

    Foxes are orange but I wanted mine to be every color so he would be the happiest fox in the world. He is jumping over a puddle so his feet don't get wet. I mixed the purple all by myself.
  • Crayon drawing of a green T. rex in a blue dentist chair with its mouth open, showing big triangle teeth, while a tiny dentist on a ladder holds a mirror.

    Dino Dentist

    Theo, age 5 · 2026

    This is a T. rex at the dentist. He has fifty teeth and the dentist has to count all of them. He is not scared. Actually he is a little bit scared. (Theo told this to his dad, who wrote it down.)
  • A very tall, narrow marker drawing on three taped sheets of paper: a small giraffe at the bottom whose spotted neck stretches all the way to the top, where it bites a white cloud.

    The Tallest Giraffe in the World

    Priya, age 7 · 2026

    I needed more paper because her neck kept going and going. Ms. Dana gave me tape. She is eating a cloud because all the leaves were too low for her. Her name is Stretch.
  • Long colored-pencil panorama of a street of fourteen small houses with mailboxes, trees, a mail truck, a kid on a bike, a dog walker, and a house with a blue door and a cat in the window.

    Our Whole Street

    Jonah, age 10 · 2026

    I drew every house on Larch Street from my house to the corner. Mrs. Okafor's house is the one with the blue door and the cat in the window. It took me three weeks. There are 14 mailboxes and I drew all of them.
  • Watercolor of a dark blue lake at night with a full moon's path of light on the water, pine silhouettes, a small glowing orange tent, and a speckled starry sky.

    Night Swim

    Ava, age 12 · 2026

    This is Harlow Lake at night when we went camping in July. The water was so dark it looked like it went down forever, but the moon made a path across it. I sprinkled salt on the wet paint to make the stars, which is a trick I learned from a library video. I'm most proud of the reflection.
  • Colored-pencil self-portrait of a grinning kid with messy orange hair, many freckles and a green t-shirt, on a light blue background.

    Self-Portrait with Freckles

    Sam, age 11 · 2026

    I counted my freckles in a mirror and there are 41 that I could see, so I drew 41. My hair really is that orange. My little brother said it looks exactly like me, which is the nicest thing he has ever said.
  • Oil pastel drawing on black paper of a night garden: sunflowers, tomato plants, purple flowers, a small grandma with a watering can, and yellow dots for fireflies.

    My Grandma's Garden

    Lucia, age 8 · 2026

    My grandma grows tomatoes and sunflowers and purple flowers called cosmos. I used black paper because that's what her garden looks like at night when the fireflies come out. The yellow dots are fireflies. They are not mistakes.
  • Marker drawing of a gray striped cat asleep on a library book cart, with a dream bubble above showing a book with a fish on its cover surrounded by swimming fish.

    Dewey Dreams of Fish

    Ezra, age 9 · 2026

    Dewey is the library cat. He sleeps on the book return cart every afternoon. I think he dreams that he is a book, and in his dream bubble he is a book about fish, which is his favorite kind.
  • Lumpy green clay frog sitting upright with a crooked yellow crown and a tiny gray sword, uneven eyes and a red painted smile.

    Sir Hops-a-Lot

    Nora, age 7 · 2026

    He is a frog but he is also a knight. His crown fell off two times so I glued it. He likes eating flies and fighting dragons, but only little dragons.
  • Three polymer clay turtles in a line, a mother and two babies, with green bodies and brown and orange shells patterned with toothpick dots and swirls.

    Turtle Parade

    Mateo, age 9 · 2026

    This is a mom turtle and her two babies walking to the ocean. I made the patterns on the shells with a toothpick. The littlest one is the slowest, like me in the morning.
  • Purple clay octopus with worried eyebrows; six arms wear painted clay socks, one wears a real striped baby sock, and one arm is bare.

    The Octopus Who Lost a Sock

    Hazel, age 10 · 2026

    Octopuses have eight arms so they need eight socks. This one only has seven, which is why he looks worried. I made his worried eyebrows with a paperclip. The socks are clay except the striped one, which is a real sock from my baby cousin. I asked first.
  • Clay hedgehog curled up a little, its back covered in hundreds of snipped clay spikes painted brown with pale tips, a cream face with bead eyes and a tiny pink nose.

    Snip the Hedgehog

    Owen, age 12 · 2026

    I made the spikes by snipping the clay with little scissors over and over, about a million times (really about 300). He's curled up a little because he's shy. If you crouch down and look under him, he has a tiny pink nose.
  • Long clay blue whale with a pale belly, scratched throat lines, a smiling eye and three white clay bubbles on a wire above its blowhole.

    Bubbles the Blue Whale

    Elijah, age 8 · 2026

    A real blue whale is as long as three school buses. Mine is as long as my arm from my elbow to my fingers. That's the biggest I could make before the clay ran out. Her name is Bubbles.
  • Very lumpy cream clay chicken with two different-size googly eyes, a red comb, orange craft feathers and a small brown clay egg beside her.

    Pancake the Chicken

    Rosie, age 5 · 2026

    This is Pancake. She is our real chicken. She lays brown eggs. I gave her big eyes so she can find worms. (Rosie told this to Ms. Dana at the library.)
  • Round paper plate collage of an ocean in torn blue tissue paper, with paper fish with googly eyes around a big green fish, seaweed, and swirls of glitter glue.

    Fish Bowl Plate

    Isla, age 6 · 2026

    It's a fish bowl but the plate is the ocean. The green fish is the boss of the other fish. I used a lot of glitter. My mom said that's enough glitter, and then I used a little more.
  • Collage of a city skyline at night on cardboard: black paper buildings with hundreds of tiny windows cut from colorful magazine photos under a navy sky and a magazine-photo moon.

    City at Night, Window by Window

    Kai, age 13 · 2026

    The library was giving away old magazines, so I took a whole stack. Every window in these buildings is a tiny piece of someone's photo: faces, food, flowers, the ocean. There's one window that's just a dog. I'm not going to tell you where. It took 23 hours, and I kept track.
  • Collage of a bird in flight made of pressed leaves: a wing of yellow aspen leaves, an orange maple-leaf body, a willow-leaf tail, petal chest, and a sunflower-seed eye.

    Leaf Bird

    Amara, age 9 · 2026

    I collected all of these leaves on walks with my dad. The wing is made of eleven aspen leaves. The eye is a sunflower seed. Some of the leaves turned brown after I glued them, but my dad says that's just what nature does.
  • Collage of a foil-covered cardboard robot on yellow poster board with bottle-cap eyes, real buttons including a big red one, pipe-cleaner arms holding a plate and sponge, and drawn bubbles.

    Dish Robot 3000

    Leo, age 7 · 2026

    This robot does the dishes so nobody has to. His buttons are real buttons. The red one makes him dance. I'm going to build a real one when I'm eight.
  • Torn-paper collage of a snowy mountain at sunset seen over a porch railing, with pine forests, a pale cleared stripe down the slope, and a pink and orange tissue-paper sky.

    Tincup Mountain from Our Porch

    Grace, age 11 · 2026

    This is Tincup Mountain from our back porch. My grandpa says there used to be a ski hill on it, and in winter you can still see the stripe where the chairlift went, so I put the stripe in. I tore the paper instead of cutting it because mountains don't have straight edges.
  • Four-panel marker comic: a brown dog hides behind a chair saying NO, puts on a red cape and mask, crashes into a vacuum with a yellow BOOM, and stands proudly on the tipped-over vacuum.

    Captain Biscuit vs. the Vacuum

    Maya, age 8 · 2026

    My dog Biscuit is scared of the vacuum in real life, but in my comic he's a superhero and he wins. The vacuum is the bad guy because it's so loud. Panel 3 is my favorite because of the BOOM.
  • Five-panel ink and marker comic page titled The Book That Ate the Library: a red book with teeth grows huge and chomps the shelves, until a librarian reads it a story and it falls asleep.

    The Book That Ate the Library

    Felix, age 12 · 2026

    It's a horror comic, but funny horror. An overdue book gets so hungry it eats the whole library, and the librarian has to read it a bedtime story so it falls asleep. The moral is: please return your books on time.
  • Three-panel colored-pencil comic: an astronaut floats with a sandwich saying LUNCH, bites it so crumbs float everywhere, and the crumbs drift out the window into a spiral galaxy.

    Space Lunch

    Zoe, age 9 · 2026

    Astronauts can't eat crumbly food because the crumbs float away and get in the machines. In my comic an astronaut eats a sandwich anyway and the crumbs turn into a brand-new galaxy. That part isn't true. But it could be.
  • Four-panel pencil and watercolor comic of a snail mail carrier crawling through the seasons for years to deliver a Happy 7th Birthday card to a confused older kid.

    Snail Mail

    Henry, age 10 · 2026

    The mail carrier is a snail and it takes him three years to deliver one letter. When he finally gets there, the card says Happy 7th Birthday, but the kid is 10 now. I got the idea when my birthday card from Aunt Jo came really late.
  • Two-panel crayon comic: two kids sell lemonade at a stand, then a big bee in a top hat drinks from their pitcher with a straw while they look shocked.

    Lemonade Stand Disaster

    Ruby, age 7 · 2026

    Me and my brother had a lemonade stand and a bee drank most of it. This is a true story except the bee wasn't really wearing a hat.

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