(I know, Toy Story wasn't first, but it's the one most kids will register with. The blurb on the cover says 'Look beyond what you think you see.' And that's always what you must do.ĭaddy's afterthoughts: This book takes the Toy Story trope and has some fun with it. There are also some similarities to a wonderful book I reviewed recently about a girl trapped in a painting on the side of a china platter, Joplin, Wishing by Diane Stanley. (This novel actually makes references to both movies.) And there is a scene involving movie night at the museum's summer art camp that will make you giggle. The Frame-Up is perfect for fans of the movie Night at the Museum, and, like in Harry Potter, the paintings come to life. How can such a friendship survive, when he is real and she is just. But he and Mona become friends, as they are forced to team up to solve mysteries about what is really going on at the gallery.

Mona is horrified, believing that the biggest and most important secret of the Beaverbrook Gallery has been exposed. Peering closer, he realizes that the shape is Mona Dunn. He returns to Mona's painting, and he notices that it is empty! He glances around at the other paintings, and out of the corner of his eye, he sees a shape in the painting San Vigilio, Lake Garda that shouldn't be there. The museum closes for the day, but as the gallery director's son, he has the freedom to move around after hours. He tries to convince himself that he is only hallucinating. He thinks he sees her sticking out her tongue at some rude children in the museum. One day, Sargent is looking around the gallery when he catches sight of Mona's portrait. His parents are divorced, and he hasn't seen his father for a while.

He's a talented painter and is visiting his father for the summer. Sargent Singer is the 12-year-old son of the gallery director. She enjoys talking to the friends she has made in other paintings, and admiring the scenery of some of the landscapes. They generally live like you or I do, but they can never leave the paintings.Ī restless 13-year-old girl, Mona loves to explore the gallery. They hang out with each other and socialize.

They can move around through the different paintings as easily as you or I can go to different rooms in a house. Ever since she was moved to the gallery, she has obeyed the number one rule: No one is allowed to know the paintings are alive.Īll of the gallery's 'residents' obey that rule, among other rules, and live peacefully. Mona has lived in the painting Mona Dunn(her portrait) in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery for almost a century.

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