The Get-well Picture

A touching story, activity book, and keepsake all in one, this heartwarming tale of a boy's gift to cheer up his mother will have other children making gifts and memories with their families as well. When Raymond's mother comes down with a cold, he paints a picture entitled "Tea Party with Monkeys in a Banana Tree Beside a Purple Sea" to cheer her up. When the picture is accidentally thrown away, it begins a grand adventure that spans decades—healing everyone it touches—as it makes its way back to the woman for whom it was created. At the end of the book, when the mother sees her now-grown son's artwork for the first time in 20 years, the page is left blank for kids to draw or paint their own vision of "Tea Party with Monkeys in a Banana Tree Beside a Purple Sea."