Splat! Another Messy Sunday #2 (The Fantastic Frame)

Product Description

The second book of this thrilling chapter book series will immediately suck readers in with its combination of a fast-paced adventure and full-color art—this time in the style of pointillism!

Tiger and Luna return to the fantastic frame, and this time they enter the famous dotted world of Georges Seurat’s painting,
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. After arriving on the shore of the pleasant scene, they dash through Paris, get captured by police, and encounter one misadventure after another. And of course, Tiger and Luna must return to the real world to avoid getting trapped in the painting before time runs out!

About the Author

Lin Oliver is the New York Times best-selling author of more than thirty books for young readers. She is also a film and television producer, having created shows for Nickelodeon, PBS, Disney Channel, and Fox. The cofounder and executive director of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, she loves to hang out with children’s book creators. Lin lives in Los Angeles, in the shadow of the Hollywood sign, but when she travels, she visits the great paintings of the world and imagines what it would be like to be inside the painting—so you might say she carries her own Fantastic Frame with her!

Samantha Kallis is a Los Angeles-based illustrator and visual development artist. Since graduating from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, in 2010, her work has been featured in television, film, publishing, and galleries throughout the world. Samantha can be found most days on the porch of her periwinkle-blue Victorian cottage, where she lives with her husband and their two cats. More of her work can be seen on her website: www.samkallis.com

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PROLOGUE

Oh, hi there. I’m Tiger Brooks. I think we might have met before.
 
I’m here to tell you a story you’re probably not going to believe. But trust me, it’s all true. Even the parts that don’t seem true. I know because it happened to me.
 
It started when my friend Luna Lopez and I paid a visit to our neighbor Viola Dots. She’s the—well, let’s just say
unusual woman who lives next door with her butler, a talking orange pig named Chives. I know what you’re thinking. A talking orange pig—that’s a hard one to believe.
 
But wait, there’s more. Viola has this magical, fantastic picture frame in her house. What? You’re not sure magical picture frames actually exist? Well, neither was I until I fell into one. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
 
Viola’s frame hangs on the wall in her living room. It looks like one of those fancy golden frames you’d see in a museum. And it has a gold clock on the front. When the clock on the frame strikes four, the painting inside opens up and sucks you in.
 
That sounds exciting, but it hasn’t worked out too well for Viola Dots. Her son, David, was sucked into a painting fifty years ago and has been lost ever since. The only thing she got in return was Chives, who came flying straight out of some old painting and into her living room.
 
Mrs. Dots is pretty old now and still misses David like crazy, which is why Luna and I agreed to help her. Every week she paints another painting to put in the frame. And every week, we travel into the frame to look for David.
 
This would be totally fun except for one little detail: If we’re not back from inside the painting in exactly one hour, we’ll be stuck. That’s right. We would have to stay in the world of art forever.
 
That’s a good thing if you’re trying to get out of doing your homework. But if you care about ever returning home, it’s not so good.
 
I don’t blame you if you don’t believe me. It’s a pretty wild story. So read it for yourself, and then you tell me.
 
Do you really think there is such a thing as a fantastic frame?
 
 
 
CHAPTER ONE
 

Come on, Luna! I thought.
Where are you?

 
Our wooden front porch groaned as I paced back