Olive's parents are Serious Artists who paint serious, black and white shapes: her father paints squares and her mother paints triangles. Olive is an artist also, but her canvases (and whatever else she paints on) are a riot of smeary, squiggly color. Olive's classmates recognize her genius, and finally her teacher and her parents do too ("Oh, Olive! ...You've been a magnificent artist all along") - and only then does Olive paint a perfect (orange-and-yellow) circle. Olive never doubts her own artistic abilities, and readers won't either. Lian Cho does a phenomenal job weaving Olive's colors through her parents' grayscale world. ( )